thea 
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‘the advanced age of eighty-sey 
160 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Jersey Fungi.’—Id. and W. Phillips, ‘ Reliquie Libertiane.’—C. 
Kalchbrenner, ‘ Fungi Macowaniani.’ 
Hedwigia.—K. Rehm Uieaensisatoat fase. x1i.—-R. Wollny, ‘On 
the fructification of Chatopteri is plumosa,’ 
Journal of Quekett Microscopical Club.— Desmids new to Britain 
in 1880.’ 
Midland Naturalist.—J. Ei. Bagnall, ‘ Flora of Warwickshire’ 
(contd.) 
Cisterr. Bot. Zeitschrift.—H. Wawra, ‘New Plants’ (Swain- 
sonia Murrayana, Scutellaria mussooriensis, Hyptis ltatiaia, Hedeoma 
Itatiaia, Palicourea brasiliensis, Coceocypselum Peele he spp. nn. 
ardagna, ‘ Flora of Trentino.’—E, Flek, ‘ Crocus vernus in 
the dig: athians. —M. Gandoger, ‘Pugillas Fiksleren novarum ’ 
(forms of Aigilops muy and (taudinia fragilis)—P. G. Strobl, 
: Flora of Etna’ (con 
Botanical News. 
me, Li J. KK. E, of New Providence, Bahamas, has been 
appointed to ne Curators of the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic 
ardens, Caleu 
Dr. §. sor, has been appointed Professor at the University 
of Upsala 
Mr. aw Lers has offered the MS. of his sae Riding Flora 
to the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union for publicatio 
Jacos Bout, the author of a small work on ae Flora of Brem- 
garten, Switzerland (1869), died on the 29th September, 1880, in 
Texas, whence he had twice sent collections of mosses and lichens. 
He was born in 1828 
A conLEction of mosses and lichens made by hate Warner, 
the author of ‘ Plante Woodfordienses,’ has bee n presented to the 
Epping Forest and County of Essex Naturalists’ Field Club. 
death is recently RnROmgeS of Joun Francis Druas, at 
was a native of Altona, in 
Prussia, and in 1826 soa his extensive botanical investi- 
gations in South Africa. These lasted for eight years, during 
1g ¢ 
mentariorum de plantis Afric Aus- 
 tralioris,’ a his friend Ernest Meyer Oe eee in 1835—1837), 
among them the genus Dreyea, with the graceful neg RE 
** Amico cui tantas Flore divitias exquisitissimas debemus, dicat 
spero fore, ut et duret et accrescat.” 
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