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he Ustilaginee : Uroeustee occulta, Rab.” (tab. vii.).—A. Famintzin, 
prise sete omy ce 
Bot. aa A yon Uechtritz, ‘On Hier 
olin ”—A. Kerner, ‘‘ Distribution of Hungarian Plants ‘» 
{contd.).—M. von Tommasini, ‘Flora of 8. Istria ; bans rage 7 
L. Celakovsky, ‘On the Nature of a Species, &e;?? t oe td.).—Vatke, 
“©On Medicago Aschersoniana, Urban.””—H. Kemp, ‘‘ Supp. to Flora 
of neighbourhood of Vorarlberg ”’ (contd. ). 
Nuove Giorn. Bot. Italiano.—N. Terraciano, ** Enumeratio Plant. 
in agro Murensi sponte nase.” ou nciny —F. Cazzuoli, ‘ ph of 
Textil 
Experiments on Textile es.’—T. Caruel, “New Form of 
Microscope for study of Voedabi Organology ’ i (tab. 3).—P. 
Saccardo, *‘ New or Critical Venetian Fungi.” —G. Tchistiakoff, “On 
the Structure and Cheon of Sainbul root” (tab. 4 & & 5). 5).—P. Bubani, 
** Notes on Willkomm and Lange’s ‘ Prod. Flor. Hispan.’’ 
dwigia.—G. Winter, ‘Mycological Notes.”—R. Ruthe, 
** Dieranedla humilis, n.s.” 
New Books. =De Candolle, ‘‘ Prodromus mere N aural 
et Vegetabilis,” vol. xvii., concluding the work (Paris, 
fr.).—G. Ben tham, «Flora Australiensis,” vol. vi. (Reeve, £1 Is) — 
Fries “* Teones Hymenom cetum Suecie nondum delin.” fase. 
vii. (18s.).—R. Bentley, “* Manual of Botany,” third edition (Churchill, 
12s.).—F. Hildebrand, ‘Die Verbreitungsmittel der Pflanzen’ 
(Leipsig, 4s). 
The fourth and concluding part of vol. 28 of the Transactions 
W. R. McNab, with a plate; “On Begoniella, a new genus of 
Begoniacee from New Grenada,” by D. ew wie a plate; ‘* Three 
ew Genera in the Malayan Herbarium of the late Dr. sal 7 
Cesc ng Olacineze ; Ctenolophon, Olacinez ? ; Hun ngaya, Ham 
lidess),” by D. Oliver, with three plates; “On Alibertia, with 
Desoripten of a Beit Species ” (4. Melloana, Hook. f.), by J. Corres 
de Mello, with a pla 
O. Nordstedt has rpebUiabed in the part bearing date 11th Sept. of 
the ‘Lunds Universitets Arsskrift” an extensive memoir on the 
Desmidee of 8. Norway; over 260 species are described, of which 
‘some 20 or more are new. In the same journal Nordstedt describes 
and figures a new 2 ine of Spirogyra from Scania (S. velata). 
In the Annual Report of the Winchester sa Hampshire Scientific 
‘and Literary epi recently printed, will be found the whole of 
Canon Kingsley’s excellent address on Bio-ceclogy, of which we 
a. a B hae ‘in last peas volume. The Winchester College 
Natural History Society has also just gare its pec Report, 
which py a ay ye plants found in ighbour 
Transactions of the Nova Scotia Institute 
of Na tural Sceeen re October, 1878, contain an account of the 
vegetation of the Bermudas, by J. M. J ones, F.L.S. A short sketch of 
the a ar geography of fe group is followed by acatalogue of the 
