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Magyar Novény ytanilapok.—L. Simkovies, ‘ Botany of Buda-Pesth 
and its vicinity.” —S. Brassai, ‘‘ Two minute curiosities.’”—L. Walz, 
** Delphinium fissum near Klausenburg. % 
Jou yf Linnean Soc. (no. 91, Aug. 21st).—J. G. Baker, 
= Systema Iridacearum ”’ (contd.). —R. J. Lynch, * Note on the disar- 
ticulation of branches” (tab. 3).—G. S. Boulger, ‘‘ Remarks on the 
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Hepatice collected by Rev. A. E. Eaton at the Cape in 1874” 
(tab. 4, 5). 
New Books.—F. Buchenau, ‘‘ Flora von Bremen” (Muller, Bre- 
men, 45mk,).—T. Heldreich, ‘‘ Catalogus systematicus herbarii T. G. 
Orphanidis, cog i; Leguminosae ” (Florence),—A. Gray, “ Dar- 
Winiana. Ess and Revi pertaining to Darwinism” (New 
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Society for 1877, ‘‘On the discrimination of the seeds of weeds,” is 
illustrated by ninety- -three figures beautifully drawn by Schmidt, with 
his usual accuracy. 
Liversidgea is a genus of fossil fruit, named by Baron von. Mueller 
in honour of the discoverer, Prof. Liversidge, of the University of 
Sydney, and described and figured in the Proceedings of the Royal 
Society of New South Wales. The fruits were foun d in a silicious 
deposit from the Richmond River; the heen gg position of the 
genus cannot be determined from existing m 
magnificent book is in course of satliontion at Manilla; a new 
edition of Blane sha ‘‘ Flora de Filipinas” in folio, with colo 
plates. Blanco n Augustinian Monk, and the present work is 
issued at the cost of that order at Manilla. It willinelude, besides all 
Blanco’s material, also the MSS. of Mercado, which forms 
foundation of the original Flora, and which have been lately discovered, 
ose of Ll anos, the editor of the second edition published (after 
Blanco’s death) in 1845. Also it is intended to bring up the whole 
present time, and to determine the doubtful species 
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. Vidal y Soler. In connection with this the Spanish Government 
rg a botanical exploration of the aber antes to be con- 
ducted by Sr. 8S. Vidal, Director of the Manilla Botanical Gardens, 
ho i in London examining the Philippine RE 8 plants in our 
