NOTICES OF BOOKS AND MEMOIRS. 881 
of protoplasm,” and we can dimly picture how complex must be 
the changes called forth by a utes sa gaN bi here our 
knowledge stops, and heartily w t be any earnes 
endeavours to apply the simpler oni “of sbvtieal science to the 
complex problems of Biology. W. 
Characee Nove-Zeelandie. By Orto Norpstept.—The sixteenth 
volume of the Proceedings of the University of Lund contains 
under the above title, an account of the Charas collected by Dr. 
Ber en in New Zealand, The name of the author is a Bunisiont 
guarantee that the paper is a valuable contribution to the literature 
of the group. Hight species are enum mae of which two are 
described as new (Nitella leptosoma and N. conformis), and full 
egg? sce are nt nis of N. pseudo flabellata, Braun, MSS., and of 
Chara f which nly denoted 
by the ante in «Die Characeen Afrika’s.’ The name of C. Benthami 
is improper, inasmuch as Mr. Bentham has had nothing to do 
with the plant in 1 question, nor with the genus.—H. & J. G. 
are indebted to the courtesy of Sir J. D. Hooker for an 
as our space will t 
of the various colonial etante aa contain much inpameties 
which will be useful to the student of economic Botany. No less 
discrepancies occasionally ari 
ence dlink, the ante RPE at the head of the Report with that at 
which it is actually issued ; thus Mr. B. D. Ja ckson’s ‘ Guide to the 
pts of Botany,’ which appeared in April of the present year, 
is en of in the Report, dated Teetany 1 of the same year, as 
eae a published. 
_— Cx. Rover, ‘ Flore de la Cote-d’Or, avec déter- 
parties souterraines,’ tom. aris, F. Savy). 
__G. Dracennorr, ‘ Die qualitative und quantitative Analyse yon 
Pflanzen und Pflan zentheilen ” (Gottingen, Vandenhoeck & Ru- 
cht)._-E. BretscHNEIDER, ‘ Karly European Poa a the 
Flora of China’ (London, Tribne ays — W. Woouts, ‘ Lectures on 
the Vegetable Kingdom, with “special reference to the a of 
tralia’. (Sydney, Fuller). ornnuunpD, ‘Islands Flora’ 
‘Comin _ =i. Baruon, ‘ Anatomie et Physiologie Vegetales ’ 
New Booxs 
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