PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 27 



American Naturalist. — J. C. Martindale, ' Colorado plants. 1 — 



W. Trelcase, •Fertilisation of native species of Clitoria and 



Centrosema.' 



Botanisker Xotiser (Nov. 3). — V. B. Wittrock, 'On Linn ceo 

 boreal is 9 (contd.) — P. G. E. Tlieorin, ' Hynienomyeetes Gotho- 

 burgenses , (contd.) — D. Bergental, ' Localities in South Halland 

 and North Bohnslan,'— J. E. Zetterstedt, ' Vegetation of Visingso.' 



(EsUrrische Hot. Zeitsch rift. — R. F. Solla, ' Researches on the 

 intercellular substance. ' — G. Beck, * On some Orchids of Lower 

 Austria.' — F. v. Thiimen, 'Syniboke ad fl. Mycolog. Austriacum ' 

 (contd.) — L. Celakowsky, 'Botanical Notes.' 



Hedwigia. — Rehm, ' Remarks on the Ascomycetes' (contd.) 

 G. Winter, ' Mycological Notices.' 



Dot. Zeituny.—IL Prantl, ■ On the influence of light on the 

 bilaterality of the fern-prothallium.'— J. Moella, ' JEschpwmene 

 aspera, Willd.'— W. E. A. Yoight, ' Anatomy of the Marchantiacecc ' 

 (tab. 9). — A. de Bary, ' Mcidium abietinum 1 (tab. 10). 



Grei'illea.—B. Carrington, ' New British Hepatica (Riccia 

 glaucescens, Carr., sp.n., JR. tumida, Lindb., Gymnomitrium crassi- 

 folium, Carr., sp.n., Junyermannia nccicmsis, Carr., sp.n., Diplo- 

 phyllum wyriocarpum, Carr., sp.n.)— E. Boudier, 'Dehiscence of 

 Asci in Discomycetes. 1 — De Thuemen, 'Fungi iEgyptiaci,' 

 (Oidium ^ medicayineum , Sorosporiuni desertorum, Uredo Isiacew, 

 Spharopsis Calotropidis, spp. nov.) — M. C. Cooke, * A new genus of 



ser. n. 



Fun 



species 



C. B. Pio wright, 



1 Propagation of Spkmria fimbriata. 1 — ' Woolhope Club Meeting, 

 1879 ' (contains descriptions of several fungi new to Britain, of 

 which a list is given at p. 20 of this Journal. 



Bull. Bot. Soc. Belg. (vol. xviii., pt. i.)— F. Crepin, •Primitive 

 Monographic Rosarum' (contd.) 



Flora. — J. Miiller, 'Lichenes Japonici' (several new species). 

 — H. Conwentz, ' On a Miocene Conifer from sulphur- mines of 

 Comitini at Girgenti.'— K. A. Henniger, 'Hybrids of plants 1 



(contd.) — S. Schunck, ■ Gnaphalium sylraticum, ft. rectum.' — L. Cela- 

 kowsky, 'On viridescent ovules of Hesperis matronal is 1 (contd.) 



0. Bockeler, ' Cyperacece of Tropical Africa ' (Kyllinyia Soyauxii, 

 Soyaux, No. 175, K. Naumanniana, Naumann, No. 153, spp.n.) 



liroceeHmga <»f Societies, 



Royal Society. 



Xorrmber 27, 1879.— The President, W. Spottiswoode, Esq., in 

 the chair. — A Report on Phyto-Palaeontological Investigations on 

 the Fossil Flora of Sheppey, by Baron Ettingshausen, Professor 

 in the University of Graz, Austria, was read, of which the 



