BOTANICAL NOTES. 851 



Plants ' (Legiminosa — many new species). — F. Krasan, ' On Plant- 

 distribution in the districts of Gorz and Gradisca ' (continued). — 

 S. Schulzer von Miiggenburg, ' Mycological Notes ' {Boletus acris, 

 n. sp.) — V. v. Borbas, ; Notes on Ferulago silvatica and Roripa 

 hispanica.' — V. v. Aichinger, ' On the Flora of Vorarlberg.' — D. Hire, 



' On the Flora of Eisujak.' 



Flora. — F. Arnold, ' Lichenological Fragments/ — W. Nylander, 

 'Addenda nova ad Lichenographiam europaeam ' (14 new spp.) — 

 P. G. Strobl, ' Flora of the Nebrodes.'— W. Behrens, ■ Fertilisation 



in Cobaa.' 



American Naturalist. — A. N. Prentiss, 'Destruction of noxious 

 insects by fungoid growths' (concluded). — J. E. Udd, 'Cross- 

 fertilisation in fianunculacea,' 



Bulletin of Torrey Botanical Club.— J. Williamson, ' Ferns on 



the Cumberland. ■ 



[Coulter's] Botanical Gazette.— A. Gray, < Notulae exiguaB.'— F. 

 Moray, < Potamogeton Vasei/C—C. E. Barnes, ' The Anthers of Clethra. 9 



Naturalist (Huddersfield).— J. E. Griffith, ■ Flora of Carnarvon- 

 shire and Anglesea ' (continued). 



Midland Naturalist.— A. W. Wills, ■ Volvox globator' (1 tab.) 



Botanische Zdt\mg.— H. Vochting, 'On the Apex and Base of 

 Plant-organs.— M. Woronin, < Chromophyton Bosanoffii 1 (1 tab.) 



Botanical Nttos- 



Librarian to the Linnean Society. Dr. Murie lias filled the post of 

 Assistant- Secretary to the Society for some years past with great 

 energy and devotion, and is thus fully acquainted with the duties 

 of the post which he has obtained. 



Charles Johnson, who died at Camberwell on 21st September 

 last, was born in London 5th October 1791, and was intended for 

 an assayer; but he early showed much love for .Natural History. 

 He was a fellow- student of Michael Faraday under Tatum began 

 to give public lectures on Botany in 1819, and thenceforward 

 devoted himself entirely to that study In 188£ he was anointed 

 first occupant of the chair of Botany at Guy **^L^J*« 

 founding of the medical school ; here he delivered forty-foiu courses 

 of lectures relinquishing his post in 1873. He introduced the 

 oi lectures, "nnquiw rl „ nllon livin" specimens, lecturers having 



system of demonstrating upon iivui =i » P 



previously confined themselves to verbal statements these speci- 

 pieviousiy uuumeu crnrden which he sedulously kept 



STJrSSrt. - ^eTntated more than four tliisaZd 

 sp P ecies d ;He ^^^^ ^SS&?S\ 



nJr^ nmea V^ ffis 0X1 producttons were 'Ferns of 

 (1832-40) in 12 ^f ; .^ ^^ius Plants' (1856); < Grasses 

 Great Britain |«5o) , Bui^ ° ^.^ ^ ^ ^ 



of Great Britain l 186 *}', *° * withiu two years of his death, 

 and delivered a course oi lectures wumu j 



