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Malpighia (xv. fase. 10-12, received 21 June ical Voglino, 
‘Sopra una malattia dei Crisantemi ee (1 pl.).—G. Zodda, 
—E. 
‘ Revisione monographica dei Delfinii e dei Meliloti italian. 
Pantamelli, ‘ Sull’ albinismo me _segne ee 1.).—P. A. 
Saccardo, ‘Iconoteca dei Botan —G. Tppoltto, ‘ Anatomia 
comparata del aie delle Magnoliseée. 
eh vo Gtorn. Bot. Italiano (“ Aprile fy received 11 June).— 
G. Z ‘Sul genere Serapias.’—C. Zanfrognini, ‘ Contribuzione 
fie: Bor lichenologica dell’ aoa ’—G. Bargagli-Petrucci, ‘ Ri- 
lung os see iy Bras —A. Han sgirg “Biologie der 
Re teesicriianton Lau bblatter < Aralia ithaca . Pass 
Senfftiana.’—R. Wagner, Roylea elegans (cont. 2 ‘ Der 
oy 
Bastfasern der Thymelaacea’ (conel.).—J. Freyn, Ge Karo- 
re (cont.). — Hackel, ‘Neue Griser.’ Hieronymus Gander (1832- 
902). 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ée. 
variety of 7’. albidwm which was in cultivation in various botanic 
gardens on the Continent in the early aie of the st century, _ 
at Kew as late as 1856, the origin of which is, however, not kno 
Retzius’s specimen proves that his 7’. sada (1786) is identical 
With 7, squarrosum Savi (1808-1810), non Linn., 7. — 
Presl (1826), and 7’. 5 Sh ae Loisel. (1828). Hence it follow 
that the name 7’. albiduwm takes precedence before those names as 
well as 7’, dipsaceum Thuill. (1 790), hint was ideontes by Grenier 
& Godron and by Rouy with Savi’s 7. squarrosum. The colour of 
or, as Savi says, of red; in dry spec imens it turns to a dirty yellow 
bid n more or less suffused with purple. The calyx is 10-nerved, 
leucum var. ramosum (Fl. Franc. v. p. 529 (1805) ), which the author 
referred subsequently (Fl. Frang. Suppl. p. 557 81 5)) to 7. albidum 
Willd. (sic). It agrees, indeed, very t edi-with.the plant so named 
. : n 
‘rom glabrous to rather conspicuously hairy ; the same is the cas 
ot albidum proper, although here specimens oh perfectly 
Sabicea: 5 tubes are very rare. 
