382 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
The second part of vol. xxx. of the Linnean Society’s Tr ansactions 
is sa — It contains a complete monograph of the Lecythi- 
dacee by Mr. Miers, illustrated by 33 plates from his aos ipo 
species are distestrdted-a nder 12 genera and mount up to 183, 
greater number, as the author observes, than would be sic 
were it not that the large woody fruits in museums can rarely be 
matched ‘hig herbarium specimens, and consequently appear as sepa- 
rate specie 
The oe fascicle of the Flora Brasiliensis ee the Polygalacee 
weed out by Mr. A. W. Bennett; the -- h (vol. xi., pt. 2) the 
cond 3 of the Euphorbiacee by J. Mill 
nslation of Dr. Ascherson’s een a in the ee Botanische 
as been published in the Garden ts Chronicle. The 
cies the title of ‘‘Prodrome de la Flore du Grand-Duché de 
Luxembourg,” M. J. P. J. Koltz has published the first part, including 
the Phanerogams, of a complete catalogue of the plants of that district, 
with copious localities. Luxembourg occupies a position of interest 
ina tae ico-botanical point of view, and the greens of this 
ca up a gap in European floras. A shor o-literary 
autroduatibes is prefixed. 
Miss E. Hodgson has liberally presented specimens of all the 
species enumerated in her seg ee of Lake Lancashire plants, printed 
In our pages, to the British Muse 
Mr. Crombie has just eames fiesdave I, of his ‘‘ Lichenes Britan- 
nici Exsiceati,” con pei y of the rarer and the new species not 
included in the: coats of J Tei ghton and Mudd. The few copies 
published are tela solely for me herbaria. 
Mr. John E. Vize, es Vicarage, Welshpool, is issuing a Fasci- 
culus of 100 specimens of Microsc scopic Fungi of the A stes ps Puccinias, 
womacer, Eicidiacet, Mucedines, Erysiphei. The price is £1. 
Dr. McNab is at present forming a British erberium at the 
Royal College of Science, Dublin, and would be glad if any friends 
would assist him by donations of sae or qritical species. 
‘ Bo P. 
1s also in preparation, to include the additions to the Phan anerogamic 
which have been made during and since the publica- 
tion of the eleven wigace of the book. 
As there was no meebange Club distribution this year Dr. Syme 
does not think there 1s any occasion to print a report ; it is confidently 
hoped abet next year will see both distribution and report issued in 
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‘he adas 1s recorded in the Gardener’s Chronicle for November 
Lt of a Evans, one of the botanists in humble life, of South 
He was a native of Boothstown, a village near Man- 
