BOTANICAL NEWS. 351 
American Naturalist. vie W. Chickering, jun., ‘‘ Flora of the 
Dismal a mp.” 
Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr.—J. Pantocsek, ‘‘ Plant. nov. per Herce- 
Reem et ontenegro coll.” (eleven new species; Pantocsekia, 
. VO 
. Wa si ff Bupplowetes to aisles of Lower A ustria PP 
. Krai a 
“ Localities near Wiener. Neustadt ” (contd.).— tT Kemp, “ a 
ment - Flora of Neighbourhood of Vorarlberg.” 
epg —E. Stahl, ‘Development and Anatomy of Lenti- 
cels” (tab. 5 
Botaniska Notiver (Sept. 15).—O. Nordstedt, ‘ a “a Leaves of 
Drosera eat Flesh?”—S. Berggren, ‘“On a Tw Pine in South 
Smoland” (tab. 1).—Ib., ‘‘ On the Development ys Rat of — 
Pro-embryo in Diphyscium m and vor ik 2).—O. Nordsted' 
‘* Notes on the Annual Zones of Small P 
_ New Books.—‘ Traité de Botanique,” part 1 (a French transla- 
tion — notes by Van Tieghem of Sach’s ‘‘ Lehrbuch der pone: Mea 
—F. yon Mueller, ‘‘ Fragmenta Phytographie Australie,” 
- The seventeenth half-yearly Report of the bettieaan "ees 
Natural History Society contains an elaborate series of tables of the 
tt Under each species are given details of the temperature and 
rainfall for six weeks before the observed date of first flower in each 
jpaeeae rs dads 
will poner a car arefu 1 examin 
of Wiltshire” pent: ng the orders from Juncace to Cyperacve. 
In a recent number of the “ Comptes Rendus” M. A. Brongniart 
describes the Palms of New Caledonia, from the material satiated 
by Balansa, Veillard, and Pancher. Eighteen sone are found in 
the island besides the Cocoa-nut, which is considered to e introduced. 
eam a are included in a new genus, which is called Cyphokentia, 
characterised by its unsymmetrical fruit, with a gibbosity on one 
veveg ee is remarkable that none of the other tribes of Palms dis- 
tributed pscneh | the Pacific should be represented, so far as known, 
in New Caledoni 
Some very Sood papers, by W. H. Grattann, which have been in 
course of publication in the pages 0 of a weekly newspaper called the 
‘‘ Bazaar, Exchange, and Mart,” have been reprinted un “2 the title 
of Pritah Marine Alge,” in epeney parts, well illustra 
ge collected by Mr. Kurz in Arracan and British Burmah 
have pea determined by! Dr. G. Zeller, of Stuttgart, and are published 
