256 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Bifurcation of the vegetative cone take in the Ramification of Phane- 
rogams?”’ (tabs. 1 & 2).—P. Nielsen, ‘‘ Vegetation of South-west 
Zeeland ” (with botanical map). 
New Books.—H. Christ, ‘‘ Die Seen den Schweiz” (Basel).—E. 
Hampe, “ Flora Hereynica” (Halle, 7s.).—F. C. Schiibeler, ‘‘ Pflan- 
zen-geographischen Karte iiber das Konigreich Norwegen”’ (Chris- 
tiania).—G, Hieronymus, “‘ Beitrige zur Kentniss der Centrolepideen ”’ 
(Halle, 8s.).—A. Cy a ‘* Polypodiacew et Cyatheacese Herbarii 
Bungeani”’ (Leipzig, 3s.). 
e Botanical Exchange Club has printed and distributed its list 
of desideat for 1873. The Curator’s Report has not yet however 
been 
The aca of the Dean of Winchester, the very Rev. Thomas Gar- 
nier, D.D., at the great age of 98, must not be allowed to pass with- 
out notice. For r many years past he had occupied the position of being 
the oldest Fellow of the Linnean Society, having been elected in the 
ae century, in 1798, only ten years after the foundation of the 
ciety. was a contem orary of Sir J. E. Smith, Sir Joseph 
Banke. Curtis, Pulteney, and others of a past setnvatdin ‘of botanists. 
Under the signature ‘L. 8. 8.’ he, with Mr. Poulter, contributed to 
vol. i. of the “‘ Hampshire e Repository e (1798) a a list of some of the 
rarer plants of sean ‘hereafter to be continued, and to be finally 
xtended to a complete Flora Hanton niensis ”—occupyi ing six pages, 
and illustrated with a coloured figure of the white-flowered variety of 
2: apifera from Bordean Hill. The magazine also contains, with the 
me signature, a description with a coloured plate of a ‘‘ nondescript 
Ophrys” which flowered “‘ for the first time it is believed in this king- 
dom October, 1796, and the two succeeding autumns at Meonstoke 
Parsonage,” and seems to be Spiranthes cernua. He also contributed 
a paper on the culture of the Strawberry to the Horticultural Society’s 
Peceen ae 
It is thought desirable by the Council of the Phsrone 
Society to extend the small herbarium of medicinal plants at presen 
in their possession, so as to include e specimens 6, A 1 slate from 
every quarter of the globe, whether officinal or non-officinal, and thus 
-in search of the specimens they wish to ang at a great cost of aa 
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