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abroad they gain great vigour. 18. They are the fittest to survive in 
8 struggle for life. Considerable discussion followed the reading of 
this paper. 
- Botanical Pews. 
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Scottish Naturalist.—J. aie ‘* New Lichens.” 
Monthly Microscopical Journ.—A. Grunow and F. Kitton, “ New 
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Flora.—R. Caspary, ‘‘ Memoir of A. Braun.”—H. Christ, ** Rosa- 
forms observed in an —W. Nylander, ‘‘ Addenda nova ad 
Lichenographiam Europzeam ” (20 new. sp., 10 British). —J. Miiller, 
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Bot, Zeitung.—O. Drude, belted examples illustrating the 
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Boletus Ou a, ipes, and B. placidus.”—I. n 
M. Woronin, “‘ On " Boiry dium Aectsies ” (tab. 7-11) [see p. is} 
Goebel, “ acetone. of the prothallium of Gymnogramma 
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Croatia.”—F. Antoine, “Botany of the Vienna Exhibition” 
(contd.). 
Magyar Novénytanilopok.—J. Sachs, “On arrangement of cells in 
recent parts of plants.”—J. L. Holuby, ‘On the cultivation of Althwa 
rosea and on Puccinia Malvacearum.”—L. Simkovics, “ Plants of 
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