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may be all that is admirable and ingenious, but they result in such 
approved entries as the following, which we take from a single page 
of examples: 
‘History. A History of Painting from Fra Angelico to Velasquez. 
Boox. A first Book on Alge 
Arr. Le livre intitulé l'art 4 bien mourir.’ 
It would be difficult to conceal more ars the works placed | 
under these three headings. 
THE tonto! Annual Report of the Missouri Botanic Garden 
Cae BEEN papers on the diseases of T'vxodium distichum (‘ peckiness’) 
and Libocedrus deewrrons Nae rot’) by Hermann von Schrenk; on 
ae flowerinil in ington, by J. ose ; gS revisions of 
the American species of "Buphorbia § Tithymalus by J. B.S. Norton, 
and of the species of Lophotocarpus, by J. G. Smith. It is un- 
necessary to say that the volume is admirably printed and lavishly 
illustrated. 
. G. C. Druce announces in the ‘Pharmaceutical Journal’ 
that he has in ated 8 ‘An Ecological Flora of the British 
Isles,’ in which he hopes to show ‘more particulars as to the 
exact place of aehadeat attitade Baie distribution, than is given in 
the usual text-boo Such a work, if carefully ‘done, will be both 
useful and aeons’ ; but we pho t Mr. Druce will observe due 
economy in pe lags information as to the ‘exact place of growth”’ 
of our rarer species 
first part, ban Nees 101 plates with descriptions, of the 
*Tilustrations of the Botany of Captain Cook’s Voyage Round the 
World in H.M.S. ‘Endeavour’ in 1768-71” has just been issued by 
has Eakic “sorpared the pte and descriptions ath the original 
drawings and the specimens in the Banksian Herbarium, 
has added such information as these supply. He has also added 
determinations, in accordance with the nomenclature at preeal 
adopted. We hope to notice the work at greater length in an 
ue. 
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w part of the /lora Capensis, completing vol. vii., has jus 
been published. It concludes the Graminea, and is entirely the 
work of Dr. Sta 
Tue Daily Chevrole although it does not reach the level of the 
Daily Mail as an instructor in natural history, does its best. 
Here is by piece of sapere gs from its issue of Apri 24th :-— 
with their fragile petals and lovely bloom, are, if ae indigenous to 
me ee rs dag as old as the association of the name of St. George 
wi nglan 
