850 EXTRACTS AND NOTICES. 
this one.” A list of the counties in which each species is found 
has been transcribed from ‘Topographical Botany,’ but this gives 
little information to the collector; while the chapter on ‘ Ferns 
round London’ seems to have been compiled from various local 
floras. 
Miss M. S. Ripusy’s ‘ Pocket Guide “ scat gives in tabular 
form the leading characters of each spec and is a more useful 
book than the foregoing. The tabular ig indeed, is carefully 
done; but the introductory matter cannot be co sadaed satis- 
factory. The chapter on the ‘ General Divisions. of Flowerless 
Plants,’ for example, conveys scarcely any information ; we do not 
think the lichens are satisfactorily defined as ‘‘chiefly little gray 
silvery-looking plants, growing on the bark of trees, &c.’ Nor 
do we think that ‘‘ experienced botanists” “are in the habit of 
advertising fern collections for sale in ‘ The Exchange and Mart.’ 
Miss Ridley has taken almost too much pains to make matters 
oan a most people know that ‘‘triangular is of the shape of a 
angle 
We are glad to announce the publication of the physiological 
portion of Just’s invaluable ‘ Botanischer Jahrbucher,’ bringing 
the work down to the end of 1878. 
Tue recently issued part (No.98) of Baron von Mueller’s ‘ Frag- 
. Phytographie Australiz’ contains some interesting novelties. 
y 
Whethe mare lear ned Baron’s substitution of Commerconia she 
omnes for Commersonia and Rulingia will meet with general 
acceptance seems to us doubtful, nor are we convinced of i 
desirability. 
o the same eminent botanist we are indebted for ‘ A Catalogue 
of ibe Plants collected during Mr. Alexander Forrest's Geographical 
bagi pence of North-West Australia in 1879’; and for the descrip- 
tion of a some new Aristotelia (A cn Braithwaite.) from the New 
Hebrides, the 7 extracted from the ‘ Southern Science Record’ 
for August las 
We have nS the first part, containing the rit pagal @, of 
the ‘ Flora of the Bristo Pies a se which was referred to at p. 224 
as about to appear. It seem arefully done, and is likely to 
prove an acceptable addition Alte our > fiat of local floras. 
The ‘Catalogue of the Phenogamous and Vascular Crypto- 
gamous Plants of asa Balsa has been appearing in monthl 
instalments as a supplement to Coulter’s ‘ Botanical Gazette,’ has 
been issued raf its mithore (Messrs. Coulter and C. R. Barnes) in 
pamphlet fo: 
We 5 sock the Report of the Botanical and Horticultural 
Congress held at Brussels in 1880. The principal botanical papers 
