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occur ; but we have thought it necessary to confine the list strictly 

 to actual notes taken by members until a detailed account of the 

 Flora shall be published, when authorities for the records can be 

 cited." The list shows the distribution of each species through the 

 five sub-districts, three being in Surrey and two in Kent, into which 

 the S. London district has been divided for the purpose of field work ; 

 a good map, showing these divisions, is also issued by the Club. 



We would direct attention to an interesting series of papers on 

 the early history of the l)iatomacea y by Mr. F. Kitton, which i> 

 now appearing in ' Hardwicke's Science -Gossip.' 



We have received from Messrs. Cassell ' The Field Naturalist's 

 Handbook,' by the Rev. J. G. Wood and Theodore Wood. It 

 contains lists of the plants hi flower in each month, with their 

 respective habitats. It would be well, however, that this portion 

 of the work should be revised by some botanist practically 

 acquainted with British plants : we are not accustomed to see 

 Achillea serrata and A. tomcnUma classed as such, although they 

 were at one time reported as occurring in England ; the spelling 

 of the Latin names, too, might be more accurate. 



M. Willkomm, who has just completed the ' Protlromus Florae 

 Hispanicae,' announces the publication of a series of figures of new 

 or rare plants described in that work or recently discovered in 

 Spain and the Balearic Islands, under the title, " Illustrationes 

 Florae Hispanicae insularumque Balearium." Each part will contain 

 ten quarto plates with accompanying letterpress, and will be pub- 

 lished at 12s. ; the first part will appear during the present autumn. 



Wilkinson's 'Desert Plants of Egvpf to which reference was 

 made in our last number. It bids fair to be a very interesting 

 work. We omitted to mention that it will be published by Messrs. 

 Bulau & Co., Soho Square. 



Othkr New Books.— F. de Thuemen, « Contributiones ad Floram 

 Mycologicam Lusitanicani,' Series 2 (Coimbra).— E. Haeckel, 

 'Catalogue raisonnee de Granhnees du Portugal '(Coimbra). 

 — H. van Heurck, « Synopsis des Diatomees de Belgique,' Fasc. i. 

 Raphidees (pt. 1). (Anvers). 7 fr. — J. Earle, 'English Plant- 

 Names from the Tenth to the Fifteenth Century ' (Oxford, Clarendon 

 Press).— A. DeCandolle, ' La Phytographie ' (Pans, Massoii). 10 /,-. 

 — N. L. Marchand, ' Botanique Cryptogamique Pharmaco-Medicale 

 (Paris, 0. Doiii,, fasc. 1, 4 />.— A. Prazmowski, ' Untersuchungen 

 uber die Entwickelungsgeschichte mid Fermentwirkung euaiger 

 Bacterien-Arten * (Leipzig, Voigt.) — W. Woolls, 'Plants Indi- 

 genous in the neighbourhood of Sydney' (Sydney). — Saint ; lager, 

 'Reforme de la Nomenclature Botanique' (Lyon). — A. Gremu, 

 ' Neue Beitriige zur Flora der Schweiz.' Heft. i. (Aarau). — L. V. 

 Baltzer, • Das Kvff heauser Gebirge, in mineralogischer geogno- 

 sticherund botanischer Beziehuug' (Nordhausen, Eigendorf ).— A. 

 Hausen, 'Die Quebracho-Rinde," tt, 3 (Berlin, Springer).—! . p/rrr, 

 'Simvurvvo /Uo T?v,™,vr,o -L, P„vi« ' tt. 12 (Paris. Lechevaher), BJr. 



