94 NOTICES OF BOOKS AND MEMOIRS. 



The last part of Bentley and Trimen's ' Medicinal Plants ' has 

 been issued. It contains title-pages, index, and preface, besides 

 the concluding portion of the text. 



Mr. T. Christy has issued a third part of his 'New Commercial 

 Plants/ which contains some interesting matter concerning forage 

 plants and other economical products. 



Other New Books. — Emile Favart, ' Flowers and Plants 

 from Nature/ 60 plates, in 2 vols. (155. each). Nottingham; 

 K. C. Mounteney. — E. de Puydt, ' Les Orchidees, Histoire 

 Iconographique avec revue descriptive des especes cultivees ' 

 (illustrated). Paris; Rothschild (30 /r.)— G. Henslow, * Botany 

 for Children/ London; Stanford (45.). — G. Bentley and J. D. 

 Hooker, ■ Genera Plant arum, 1 vol. iii., pt. i. (Nyctaginca — Cycadacea) 

 London ; Williams & Norgate. — ' Biologia Centrali-Arnericana : 

 Botany,' pt. iii. [Olacinea — Leguminosa). London; Dulau & Co. 



Articles in Journals. — January. 



Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. (vol. xviii. part 2). — L. Errera, 'Fertili- 

 sation of Geranium phemm* — Id., ' Plants of Blankenberg.' — Id., 

 ' On Dionaa: — C. J. Lecoyer, < Plants of Wavre.' — M. Michel & 

 N. Kemacle, ' Additions to the Flora of Fraipont and Nessonvaux ' 

 (Liege). — Th. Durand, ■ Senecio Sadlcri in Belgium.' — H. Vanden 

 Broeck, 'Plants of Antwerp.' — F.Crepin, ' On a monstrous Ophrys ' 

 (0. arachnites, Beich.) 



American Naturalist. — F. Brendel, ' Sketch of N. American 

 Botany' (concluded). 



Hedwigia. — G. "Winter, ' Mycological Notices/ 



Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschrift. — Memoir of Schulze v. Miiggenberg 

 (with portrait). — M. Willkomm, ' Spanish-Portuguese plants.' 

 H. Zukal, ' On Oscillaria. 9 — A. Hansgirg, ■ Plants of Bohemia.' 

 Vincent y. Borbas, ■ On the Flora of Iraz.' — C. J. v. Klinggraff, 

 ! Vegetation of Palestine.' 



Magyar Nov. Lapok. — Memoir of Tommasini — G. Entz, ' Al- 

 gological notes.' — T. Kunszt, ■ On the types of Dioszegi's Hun- 

 garian herbarium.' 



Ann. Sc. Nat. (ser. vi., vol.ix., 1). — J.Vesque, ■ On the influence 

 of saline matters on the absorption of water by roots.' — Ch. S. 

 Sargent, ' The forests of Central Nevada.' — P. P. Deherain & 

 L. Maquenne, ' On the decomposition of carbonic acid by leaves 

 illuminated with artificial light.' 



Scottish Naturalist. — A. S. Wilson, i The Clubroot Fungus | 

 (Plasmodiophora Brassier). — J. Stirton, 'New and rare Lichens ' 

 (many new species). — J. Cameron, ■ The Gaelic names of plants' 

 (contd.) 



Botaiiische Zeituiu/. — A. Kanitz, ' Ed. Fenzl.' — P. Ascherson, 

 ' Phytographical observations.' — J. Boehm, ' On the forces pro- 

 ducing pressure in stems.'— J.W.Moll, 'On the emission of drops 



