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Pelee tbgcia F, Muell., the authors could scarcely hare failed to 
saw plenty of specimens in the unt Margaret 
distriot, one of the localities, Kilkenny ‘soak,’ fae but a few 
miles distant from Menzies. This plant—it is a twiner—is likely to 
attract the botanist’s notice from its singular habit of continuing to 
ght. The authors appear also to have missed seeing the lovely 
herbaceous br ans of early spring in the desert. A noteworthy 
feature of this is the Eber of exceedingly small plants which 
flourish at this period. So numerous and so closely associated are 
llin 
Pp ap i spec 
prised to find pr I a secured half a dozen or even m In 
this connection many novelties are still likely to ae. Soe ns 
who will lay himself out for this particular line o 
enriching our science with what assuredly is by far the most 
important contribution to the Au rales ge flora that has appeared 
since Bentham brought his great work to its close, and Mueller, 
whose name will live ae ever in this connection, was forced to lay 
aside his eager and enthusiastic pen. S. M. 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, de. 
Tae death of rte Juan Joaquin Roprieuez y Fementas, the veteran 
botanist of Mahon, oceurred on the 8th of August at Barcelona. As 
las 
plantas vasculares de Menorca, a ol set pub- 
lished at Madrid se 1874, 858 plants, a of whi ie new ig 
science. This work described the physical geograp ¢ Miiate 
its geology and climate, and gave an account of = Taf prara 
tural and economic features of the island vegetation. In after years 
the author discovered and described, in the Bulletin de la Société 
botanique de France, several other endemic species, including the 
utiful Hrvum bifoliatum and Lysimachia minoricensis. The closing 
of his life was mainly devoted to the study of marine alew 
on the Minorcan coast, and resulted in the description of a large 
number of new Mediterranean seaweeds. An up-to-date Florula of 
Senecio, Mentha, and Micromeria ria bear the name Rodriguezii. Sefior 
iguez was a genial, courteous gentleman, who will be held in 
kindly remembrance by ehoas travellers who made his acquaintance 
<— ses his er W. Ware. 
