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Varia R. Cario, ‘Anatomical Researches upon Tristicha 
mh acai —H. Wendland, ‘ On the Borassinee 
Botaniska Notiser.—F.W.C. Areschoug, ‘ On the Fruit of Borra- 
ginee and Labiate.’—K. B. J. Forasell, ‘ Note upon a maximus, Li.’ 
Bulletin de la Société Botanique de Genéve.—J. M “a Genevan 
Characee,.’—Id., ‘ New Classification of the Vegetable King dom 
8. Calloni, ‘ Pistillody of Stamens in Persica vulgaris ee ‘Mon- 
strosity of flower of Bet chime Dens-eanis.’—Id., ‘ ‘On the corm 
of Ranunculus bulbos 
Hedwigia.—R. Wolling, ‘Marine Alege of Heligoland’ pane aoe 
Journal of Linnean Society (Botany, vol. xviii., no. 110).—J. 
Baker, ‘On a Collection of Plants made by L. Kitching in ada. 
gascar’ (2 he Kitching and Rhodocodon [see Journ. Bot., p. 82] ). 
—G. Bentham, ‘ Not rchidea.'—Id., ‘ Notes on Cyperacea.’ 
Magyar Novena lias ok.—J. Snlenstetinsidly ‘Specimen Phy- 
cologie Aiquatoriensis.’—(Suppl.) A. Kanitz, ‘Plante Romanie 
hucusque cognite’ (contd. 
Midland Naturalist—J. E. Bagnall, ‘The Flora of Warwick- 
shire. —A. W. Wills, ‘The Desmidee o Wales.’ ‘ Plants 
Flowering at Falmouth, December, 1880, and faery 1881.’ 
(Esterreichische Botanische Zeitschrift. — Kerner, ‘ Seseli 
Malyi,’ n. sp.—M. Gandoger, ‘ Pugillus Arnie (contd. : forms 
of Pepin oh erispus, Ly¢ geum ta teum, and Hordeum murinum.’)— 
P. G. Strobl, ‘ Flora of Etna’ (contd. 
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se a a nage ve 25th March, 1807, at 
Hayange, where his father ged in the iron works. 
Banoated for the medical protean ‘at henibuce: on the outbreak 
of cholera in 1882 he was appointed assistant-surgeon in the 
department of the Moselle. He married in 1834, and thereupon 
settled at Nancy. He was compelled, on the plea of health, to 
relinquish his official duties in 1850, but in 1854 he willingly 
undertook the Professorship of Natural History in the new 
a Faculty of Sciences at Nancy, which he retained antl 
th 
1845, and seconded. in 2 vols. in 1 1857 ; ‘ De apace et des races 
es eo étres organisés,’ 2 vols., 1859, an important contribution 
to the species- -question ; and the work in conjunction with Grenier, 
by which he is most widely known, the admirable ‘ Flore de France,’ 
roa three i the publication of which extended from 1848 
1856 
