192 BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 
Tur Annales du Musée du Congo are to be issued in four series, 
and the first two instalments of the Jl/ustrations dela Flore du Congo, 
by MM. Em. de Wildeman and Th. Durand, are before us. Hac 
page, so that when the 
arrange the whole systematically. Among the more remarkable 
plants figured may be named the Leguminous genus Dewevrea, 
established last year by M. Micheli, the exact position of which in 
the order is for the present doubtful, owing to the absence of fruit; 
Scaphopetalum Thonneri, an addition to the plants which furnish 
homes for ants; two species of Cogniauria; a new Turrea (T. 
Cabre); O. Hoffmann’s genus Msuata, allied to Herderia; and 
representatives of various species of Vernonia, Oxalis, and other 
large genera, the illustrations of which, in the absence of specimens, 
are extremely valuable. 
Tue Gardeners’ Chronicle for March 4 contains a notice of the 
. 21. He 
on April 14, 1882, and graduated B.A. at Cambridge in 1855. He 
had a good general knowledge of botany, but was best known as & 
mycologist, and for many years attended the “forays” of the Wool- 
hope Club, to the Transactions of which body, as well as to those of 
the Norfolk and Norwich Natural History Society, he contributed 
papers. His name is commemorated in Russula DuPorti Phillips. 
his Pandanaceous genus Sararanga, and describes as a new genus 
(Moseleya), Sibthorpia (Hornemannia) pinnata Benth. We are sorry 
to see that the useful practice of lettering the plates has been dis- 
continued. 
Bryo: 
death of its greatest master, Dr. Carl Miiller, of Halle, on the 9th 
Though in his eighty-first year, this venerable 
botanist manifested to the last an unexampled vi 
three hundred and three species; now-a-days, however, the burden 
of species has been raised to nearly fourteen thousand, mainly 
ough the continued efforts of the veteran bryologist, now alas! 
taken from us.—A. G. 
Erratum.—P. 148, 1. 10, for “‘ 203” read ‘ 23.” 
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