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a ath fase. fos a received 20 Jan.).—A. Fiori, ‘ Nuovo 
micr: no con etta tubulare.’ — A. Vaccari, ‘ — 
i a alla flora dell’ Arcipelago di Maddalena.’—K. Par tori, 
‘Richerche istologiche sui tubercoli radicali delle Leguminose’ 
(1 pl.). —Id., ‘L’ipotesi del Duval-Jouve sulla disposiaaaaa delle 
lamine fogliari di alcune Graminacee’ (1 pl.) 
esterr, Bot. Zeitschrift (Jan.). — A. Patil, ‘Untersuchungen 
des Pollens hybrider Pflanzen.’ — O. Richter, ‘Ein neues Macera- 
tionsmittel i }  ponennewele:. —J. Podpéra, Fissidens Ve Inovshyt, 
sp.n. (1 pl.) K. Urumoff, ‘ Zur Flora von Bulgarien’ (cont.). 
Rhodora (Ja an. oy —H. von Schrenk, Arceuthobium pusidlum (3 pl.). 
—F. 8. rg iron ‘ N otes on Algae.’ iis L. Fernald, ‘ Northeastern 
species of Scirpus 
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BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, de. 
Sir James Pacer, who died in London on the 30th of last 
December, claims a place among the records of British botanists. 
Born at Great Yarmouth in January, 1814, he contributed the 
but he always retained his interest in botany, and is mentioned by 
r. Watson in Topographical Botany as having contributed in- 
formation by correspondence for Norfolk and Suffolk; he was 
for many years a ace attendant at the meetings of the 
Linnean Society, of which body he became a Fellow in 1872. 
He is ¢ at ea ated 3 Ferdinand von Mueller in ‘he. Rutaceous 
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NO even more distinguished man who demands mention 
in ious pages, and of whom we hope to say more in our next issue, 
is Joun Rusxiy, who died at Brantwood, Coniston, on Jan. 20. 
Cuartes Grant Buairrinpie ALLEN, who died at + Hindbead on 
the 25th of October last, at the age of fifty- one, was an interesting 
writer, whose efforts of imagination were by no means restricted to 
the novels and stories with which his name is associated. It may 
