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manes, described but not named at page 60, is, we learn from speci- 
mens forwarded, the cosmopolitan 7. pywxidiferum, now found in Aus- 
tralia for the first time. J. G. B. 
(Re serene 
Nomenclator Botanicus. Nominum ad finem anni 1858 publici fac- 
orum, classes, ordines, tribus, familias, divisiones, genera, sub- 
genera vel sectiones designantium enumeratio ulphabetica, &c. 
Conscripsit Lupovicus Prerrrer. Cassellis 1873-74. Sumptibus 
Th. Fischeri. 
We take the liberty of calling the attention of our colleagues to a 
work which, begun two years ago (see Journ. Bot., 1872, p. 61), 
i i i on 
cient ; Pfeiffer, on the contrary, has made this point his principal 
Here you do not only find citations of the first authors of the 
The arrangement is alphabetical, and under every name the cita- 
tions are put in historical order. In separate paragraphs are placed 
together those authors who agree in opinion as to the position of the 
particular group, with the addition of the opinion itself. This affords 
