318 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Flora.—A. Kanitz, ‘‘ Some Problems in General Botany.”—H. 
Christ, ‘‘ The Roses of Italy.’”—A. Minks, ‘‘On Leptogium cornicu- 
latum, (Hffm.) Mks.” (tab. 4).—E. Strasburger, ‘Are the Conifers 
ymnospermous or not ?”—E. Godlewski, ‘‘ Dependence of Starch- 
formation in Chlorophyll-granules upon ‘the Carbon of the Atmo- 
s got 
—T. von ares ‘Mycological Notes.”—‘ On 
Hydnum "Seals, Rehb., 
Bot. Zeitung.—G. Wi ere “Remarks on Genus Sordaria” 
of the Red Beet.’’—Ib., ‘Use of Sulphate of Copper as a Remedy 
for ‘ Steinbrand’ in Wheat.” —G. Briosi, ‘‘ Normal Composition of fhe 
Fatty Substance in Chlorophyll.” 
Ocsterr. Bot. Zeitschr.—L. Celakovsky, “On the notion of a 
Species in na ture, especi ally in Botany.”—R. de heroes 
* Hieracium Janke, n.s.”—V. de Janka, *‘ Plant. nov. Ture. brevia- 
rium” (contd.) (Ver bascum amily, Veronica Bungabecea, Nectaro- 
scordium bulgaricum, Oolehicwm tureiewm).—H. runer, *‘ On boi ; 
Chalk Flora of the Manhartsberge in Lower Austria.”—A. 
** Distribution of Hungarian cere oont ‘gee: al de Tiere 
“Notes on Ranuncu | &,” ommasini, 
“Flora of 8. Istria” (cont d.).—J. eee “Revision of Plant- 
localities near Wiener-Neustadt.” 
r. Watson has printed for ae poe Sry under the title of 
iicradhint Botany,” the first part, containing all the Dicoty- 
ledons, of his Summary of the distribution of British pene Bai 
coty 
The se ond part of vol. xxix of the Linnean Society’s Transac- 
tions sonalate of a continuation of the Botany of the Speke and 
Loranthus usuiensis, Pentas purpurea, Otomeria madiensis, Oldenlandia 
effusa, Plectronia venosa, Fadogia fuchsioides, Ixora (Pavetta) ternifolia, 
Spermacoce dibrachiata, 8. Kotschyana, Gutenbergia cordifolia, 
Vernoni Laer ot V. Peters, V. violacea, V. Kar raguensis, V. 
Thomsoniana, V. Grantii, re Tea Graniii, Spheranthus polycephalus, 
Hakloyewn’ Kirkii, Porphyrostenma Grantii, Pulicaria Graniit, 
ssambicensis, Coreopsis Granti i, Bidens lineariloba, Emilia 
contend, Senecio discifolins, Berkheya Seana eana, Echinops amplext- 
caulis, Phyllactinia Grantii, Erythrocephalum nutans, E. longifolium, 
E; minus, and Dicoma Karaquensis—~in all thirty-five—are the new 
species described in this fine a to African Botany, which 
is illustrated with “thirty-five plate 
The death is announeed at Quito, on June 29th, of William 
