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BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, dc. 



The third part of Plantm Postian® (Lausanne, Bridel, Feb. 1892) 

 contains several new species of flowering plants, as well as a new 

 genus of Cynaroideae, named Autrania C. Winkler & Barbey,— in 

 honour of M. Eugene Autran, Keeper of the Boissier Herbarium, 

 of which an excellent plate is given. 



School of Botany — 



Appendix to the Catalogue of the Flora of 



Nebraska, by Mr. H. J. Webber. 







Mb. Edwaed Whymper's new book, Travels among the Great 

 Andes, contains lists of the plants collected by him in various 

 localities, as determined by the staff of the Botanical Department, 

 British Museum, m the Herbarium of which the specimens have 

 been deposited. The species met with by Mr. Whymper are for 

 the most part identical with those collected by Spruce, Jameson, 

 and others: the more interesting novelties were figured and 



described in this Journal for 1890, t. 297, p. 161. 



M. C. Sauvaoeau describes a new British Ectocarpus—E . mini- 

 mus Nag. m herb.— in his paper, « Bar quelques Algues pheosporees 

 parasites in the Journal de Botanique for April 1st. The habitat 

 is given as "in Himanthalia lorea ad littora Anglic (Dover, Nageli! 

 Berwick, Batters !)." v & 



Messes. Britten and Holland are preparing a Supplement to 

 their Dictionary of English Plant-names, and will be glad to receive 

 any additions or corrections for inclusion therein. They may be 

 sent to Mr. Britten at 18, West Square, London, S.E. 



m Hv *!? g K d t0 reCeive the first nu «iber of The Irish Naturalist 



««ln i ^ a . s °a)> a new sixpenny monthly journal to be devoted to 



general Insh Natural History," which has been adopted as the 



official organ of the principal Irish Natural History Societies. 



£«♦ \ r (Me8B ??- °- H ' Car P enter and R. LI. Praeger) invite 

 contributions on all matters connected with natural science in 



MtS JS r J 6 ?? 8en x* nUmber gives promise of a useful a(lditi °n 

 mntr in ft ' i lterature ° f thes * islands. The only botanical 



ZV* 1 ? h Jrl,™ * *° f ; J*-* » « Weeds from 



hibemicum, is named, but not described. 



»K J m m Bo 1 fcan,cal Societ 7 mvites botanists of every nation- 

 Sebiation oHS f aS36 ^ bly £ Ge ^ 0a i in c °nnection with the 

 bv Col nmhi« Ti '° m n tl \ Cent , Ur ? ° f the dis ^very of America 

 hlu \t r f Th " Bot »nioal International Congress will be 



held m Genoa from the 4th to the 11th of September. A the 

 time of the Congress will also take place the inanition of the 

 new Botanical Institute, built and presented to the University of 



