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account of the Mosses collected by Hildebrandt in Somali-land and 
the Comoro Islands, by C. Muller; a continuation of descriptions of 
new Mosses in the. Melbourne Herbarium, by E. Hampe ; and a con- 
tinuation of Bockeler's eluborate descriptions of ‘the Cyperacee in a 
Royal Herbarium of Berlin 
The volume of Prings sheim’s < ‘ Jahrbiicher” for 1876 cstithins 
memoirs by R, Hesse on the se distinctions of the typical 
genera of Lycopodacee, with two plates; by J. Reinke, on Phyco- 
xanthin, eagtir a plate ; and an elabdiate one by A. Dodel on Ulothriz 
a, Wi ght 
Donsidivably: after date we have now the Transactions of the 
i al Congress at Florence, held in May, 1874. The meetings 
Te repo in our pages (J. Bot., 1874, pp. 185, ay but an a 
siecoasarlly- rief saniner; fn in this official re e 
an account of English fruits, by A. Smee (with figures); and an 
elaborate monograph of the tribe Salicorniee, by Go unt Ungern- 
Sternberg. This last appears to be a very careful synopsis of @ group 
which has been a little attended to His arrangement of te 
species necessitates the formation of two new genera, Mier 
and Heter srostachys, and the paper contains full descriptions of the 
Species, copious oermy, = figures of the structure of each genus. 
We intend giving abstrac one or more of the memoirs above noted. 
Dr. Moore has published in the Proceedings of the Roy ish 
Academy a very complete account of the Hepatice of Ireland, with 
full synonymy, deactiptions, and distribution. All the results of the 
sakeay ae of the author and Dr. ssa of penis doen in 1873 
the present memoir, raising the whole Feerie of Irish Eepatics to, 187. 
A second edition of Mr, - Melvill’s ‘‘ Flora of Harrow” has 
been published, revised; and edited by the Rev. W. M. Hind. Twelve 
years have elapsed since the first edition appeared in 1864 (see J. 
Bot., 1864, p. 350), during which period the ‘ Flora of orci meat 
has appeared, containing much new information, and various addition 
to that book have bed printed in this Journal, chiefly contributed 
by Mr. Hind. All this additional material is embodied in the ne 
edition, but the original matter and the general arrangement of the 
book (both susceptible of considerable improvement) babe been left, 
probably in accordance with school requirements, ost without 
alteration, ; 
Of Bentley and Trimen’s ‘‘ Medicinal Plants” sixteen numbers 
have now appeared, containing 117 coloured plates drawn from 
a Several species of — — have been a _ 
