r>8 NOTICES OF BOOKS AND MEM OIKS. 



of the Progress and Condition of the Eoyal Gardens during the 



year 1878/ p. 12." 



The following is the diagnosis of the species : — 

 "Symphytum pereyriniim ; caule elato ramoso setis^ sub- 

 reversis hispido, foliis inferioribus longe petiolatis elliptico- 

 lanceolatiB acuminatis superioribus sessilibus, omnibus molliter 

 hispidis ciliatisque, petiolis decurrentibus, calyce fere ad basin 

 5-partito seginentis triangulari, lanceolatis sensim acuminatis 

 hispidulis, corolla calyce triplo v. quadruplo longiore, tubo 

 singulato medio constricto supro medium subcampanulato, ore 

 breviter 5-fido, dentibus latis apicibus recurvis, appendicibus 

 initheras subsequantibus. S. periyrinuw, Ledebour, Ind. Sein. 

 Hort. Dorpat. 1820, p. 4 : FL Boss., vol. hi., p. 114 ; DC. Prodr., 

 vol. x., p. 37 ; Briggs [Baker] in Eeport of Bot. Exchange Club 

 for 1877-8, p. 17 [Journ. Bot., 1879, p. 250]. S. asperrimum, 



Bab. Fl. Bathon, 32." 



Sciepus parvulus, 1L d S., in Surrey: — Dr. Eyre de Crespigny 

 has sent me a specimen of the above plant, gathered by him last 

 autumn above Hammersmith Bridge on the Surrey side of the 

 Thames. I sent a specimen to Mr. H. C. Watson, who confirms 

 the name. — A. Bennett. 



Kotucs of ISooftss anU ittemoivs- 



Florideemes MorphoUryi. Af J. G. Agardh. Med 33 Taflor : till 



Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps-Akadaniiens. Stockholm, 1879, 

 pp. 199, royal Ito. 



De Al<jis Nova-Zdandia marinh. In supplementuin Florae Hooker- 



iante scripsit J. G. Agardh. Lunds Univ. Arsskrift. Tom. 

 xiv., pp. 32, 4to. 



Ix the first part of his work on the Florid ea, published in 

 1851, which forms the second part of his well-known ' Species, 

 Genera, et Ordines Algaruin,' Professor Agardh expressed his 

 intention of giving, at a future time, a general view of the whole 

 organisation of the Florideae, with additional details as to their 

 anatomical structure and fructification. This intention the 

 Professor has now carried out in the first of the above-mentioned 

 works. Viewed only as the result of the patient and elaborate 

 observations and minute examination of Algje, pursued during so 

 long a series of years by an algologist of such eminence as Prof. 

 Agardh, the 'Morphology of the Floride®' cannot but be an 

 important and valuable contribution to the literature of this class 

 ot plants, and, as such, will be fully appreciated by those 

 •Igologists who are able to read Bwed h, in which language the 

 work is written. It is to be hoped that the work may be soon 



Jrai lahd The illustrations, which < usist of figures of little- 

 known Alg«, and of microscopic details of the structure and 

 n-uct in cation, are beautifully executed by Swedish artists. 





