a. - BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 
now printed off as far as the beginning of E; up to the end of D 
it ae 807 quarto pages of three columns eac 
H rt of the Felsted School Natural History Society for 1891 
and 1808 conitanas a long list of * British plan s”—the term is 
a seful a 
kno wledge of our ore and alas be sanpciated “ane sors school 
‘ete ao neriBe ciety. 
tT Exxior has published the second part of his Flora of 
fren ath the first instalment of which we noticed in this 
Journal for 1891 (p. 883). The present issue brings the work down 
to the end of Rhamnacee. The help of some additional contributors, 
cated by curious abbreviations, is acknowl ledged. We are not 
a ber age the plant or the finder is referred to as a ‘“railwa 
passenger” (p. 8—for the paging begins de novo in this part !) ; 
ut we are sure that the occurrence of Viola cornuta at Dumfries 
station is unworthy of record. V. lactea seems a very unlikely 
se for ie distrig , 
hat writes his name thus, not ‘Me a as in the Bulletin) 
and Bolus in the 1890 distribution of their ‘Herbarium Austro- 
yee ara Such distribution constitutes a puliostion according 
to Art. 42 of the DeCandollean Laws, and the species in question 
ponies these is the rare first edition of the Liber Serapionis ( 1473), 
&@ copy of Which was secured some time since for the National 
Herbarium by Mr. Carruthers, who Pap es it from a bookstall 
at the cost of a few shillings. The Bulletin, by the way, states 
that this edition is omitted by Pritzel, bal this is not the case, 
though he gives 1475 instead of 1478 as the date of publication. 
THE sranictt Zeitung, which has completed its fiftieth year, 
has adopted a new departure in its form of issue. Hereafter it will 
appear in two St pe devoted to original memoirs, the othe 
to reviews, personal notices, &c. A special number will be devoted 
to the history of this i partent journal, and an index to the fifty 
umes 1s in preparation 
Tue Department of Public “sear peo at Sydney has —— 
part i. of 4 Bibliography of Australian Ee conomic Botany, b 
J “em ee a * All esis aia works which consist of 
‘pure’ tany” org It is well printed and ind d, and 
cannot fail to he te seer tise F and indexed, an 
