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corrosion. The preparation is also said to be efficacious in coating 

 woodwork in tropical countries, for protection against the attacks 

 of white ants. This paint is now in actual use by some of the 

 largest shipowners. — John K. Jackson. 



Chara stelligera, Baiter (C. optusa, Desc), in Britain. — I 

 gathered specimens of this Chara in Filby Broad, eight miles from 

 Great Yarmouth, E. Norfolk, on September 23rd. It was growing 

 in from four to eight feet of water with Potatpogeton crisp us, L., 

 Myriophyllum spicatitm, L., and Ceratopkyllum, and spread over 

 many yards of the bottom of the Broad. It is a somewhat 

 interesting addition, as it belongs to a section of the genus 

 A Stephana, new to our Flora. The pretty star-like nucules at once 

 characterise this species, which occurs in Europe from Sweden 

 southwards to France. — Arthur Bennett. 





Notices of Books antr iftemofrg. 



New Books.— F. A. Messee, ■ British Wild Flowers by Natural 



Analysis' (D. Bogue, 10s. 6d.). — W. M. Fontaine and J. C. 

 White, 'The Permian or Upper Carboniferous Flora of West 

 Virginia and S. W. Pennsylvania.' Harrisburg.— F. von Mueller, 

 ' Eucalyptographia ' (6th decade). London : Triibner (5s.) 



Articles in Journals. 



August. 



Transaction* of the Linncan Society of Lowhm (2nd scr., vol. i., 

 pt. ix.) — C. B.' Clarke, ' Eeview of Feins of Northern India 

 concluded, 11 tab.,— G. Henslow, 'On the Origin of the so-called 

 Scorpioid Cyme ' (1 tab.) 



Journal of Linncan Society (London), vol. xviii., Nos. 106, 107. 



J. E. T. Aitchison, 'On the Flora of the Kuram Galley, &c, 

 Afghanistan.'— C. B. Clarke, 'On Indian Begonias' (3 plates). 



Science Gossip.— L. Castle, ' Heteromorpbic Orchids.' 



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G. Thin, 



'On Bacterium fatidum (sp. nov.), an organism <v^<.^u ™ 

 profuse sweating from the soles of the i ieet ' (1 tab.)— \\. U 

 Williamson, ' On the Organisation of the Fossil Plants of the Coal- 

 measures. — 0. Heer, 'On Miocene Plants discovered on the 

 Mackenzie Biver.' 



Hedwigia.—V. A. Karsten, ' Quwdam ad Mycologiam Addenda.' 

 SMman'* Journal—A** Gray, ' DeCandolle's Pictography.' 

 (Esterr. Bot. Zrit.chrifL-E, Rathay, ' Alternation of Generation 



of Gymnosponrngia.'— F. Kraaan, 'On Plant-distribution in the 



