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—wW. J.B ‘ Monstrosities in Eragrostis & Setaria.’ — T. D. A. 
Cockerell, abet Western Plants. 
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(fig. 47). 
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P. Van Tieghem, ‘ Bixacées, Cochlospermacées, et Sph Zitiietasbon 
Mémoires de lV Herb. ssa (No. 7: a” Feb.).—L. are 
‘Notes sur la Flore du Sahara.’ — (No. 8: 28 Feb.). A. Chaber 
‘Les Rhinanthus des Alpes Mocites. — (No. 9: 2 March). i 
“ete ‘ Aspidium phasal ne m, Sp. 0 
Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital. (Jan. : Whcived 10 March).—J. Baldrati, 
‘Appunti di Cecidiologia ’ (6 plates). — L. oh olucci & F. Cardinali, 
‘Secondo contributo alla Flora Marchigian 
Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschrift i ae ‘ Synedra hyalina, 
eine apochlorische Bacilla W. Figdor, ‘Zur A ie des 
Stammes der Dammar Banke! — C. Rechinger, ‘Ueber Lamium 
Orvala und 1. Wettsteinii.’—A. Jenéié, ‘ Untersuchungen des Pollens 
ean Pflanzen’ (conel.).— J. M. Polak, en iiber 
die Staminodien der Scroplulariaceen ’ (cont.). — J. Bornmiiller, 
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opulifolium’ (cont.). 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, de. 
Prory. Conway Macmitian has published a handsome and in- 
ates volume on tages Plant Life (Pioneer Press, St. Paul, 
Minnesota) which s the third of the ‘Botanical Series”’ of 
the ‘* Report of the gone vey.’ The author has aimed at bein 
ar and scientific, and although such a combination is 
ateiee Re fora a -aneairsee = ma be said to have suc- 
school, which at one time threatened to usurp the whole ~ of 
botanical literature ; it is now coming to be Scidaeidnee that s 
knowledge of a a plan as a whole is not necessarily Sussthipatible 
fragment of its entity. It remains to be said that Prof. Macmillan 
has produced a book which may be read with pleasure and profit by 
the reader of ordinary intelligence ; and to suggest that, in spite of 
the extensive literature connected with British botany, there is yet 
room for a — which should do for these islands what is here 
done for Minneso 
