190 BOOK^NOTES, NEWS, ETC, 



the Oolite 4 (Caulerpa Carruthersii , sp,n. : 2 plates), — Id,, 'Struo* 

 ture of Dictyosph&na } (1 plate). — E, S, Barton, 'Malformations of 



Ascophyllum & Desmarestia ' (1 plate). — E. A. L. Batters, ? Concho- 



cells, a new genus of perforating Algse ' (1 plate), 



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BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, do. 

 Mr. E. M. Holmes has compiled for the Pharmaceutical Society 



a Catalogue of the Hanbury Herbarium (8vo, pp f 136, xiv.), which 



should do something to make this collection better known than it 

 is at present. Both at the British Museum and Kew, pharma- 

 ceutical students are constantly making enquiries which could be 

 more conveniently answered by reference to such a typical collection 

 as this than by consulting a vast general herbarium ; and to such 

 students Mr. Holmes's Catalogue will be very useful. If, as we 

 believe, it. is not for sale, the Society will doubtless take the 

 necessary steps to place it in the hands of those for whom it is 

 specially intended. The Catalogue contains short descriptions of 

 the individual specimens, which seem hardly needed, followed by 

 the locality where each was collected, and often with useful notes 

 appended by Mr. Hanbury, the compiler, and others. In some 

 genera the collection is particularly rich — in A mo mum, for example, 

 the species described by Prof. D. Oliver and Mr. Hanbury in Joum. 

 Linn. Soc. vii. are fully represented: the abbreviation "0. & H." 

 attached to the names of these is equally applicable to the descrip- 

 tions of Composites by Prof. Oliver and Mr. Hiern in the Flora of 

 Tropical Africa, and is thus insufficient. The Catalogue is beautifully 

 printed, and we are glad to see that both plants and persons are 

 included in one index. 



Mr. B. V. Sherring's visit to the island of Grenada, " under the 

 direction of the Joint Committee of the Government Grant Com- 

 mittee of the Royal Society and of the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, V seems to have been singularly unpro- 

 ductive of novelties. Although "nearly 6000 specimens" were 

 collected, the total number of species is only 145, and of these only 

 one — Acrostichum Sherringii — is absolutely new, the other now 

 described — Alsophila Elliottii — having been previously observed by 

 Mr. W. B. Elliott. The species are enumerated by Mr. J. G. Baker 

 in the Annals of Botany for April : most of them are a universally 

 diffused throughout the West Indies. 1 ' 



Dr. Vasey sends us vol. i. of Illustrations of North American 

 Grasses (Bulletin No. 12 of Botanical Division of the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture), containing plates and descriptions of fifty 

 species of the grasses of the present region of Western Texas, 

 New Mexico, Arizona, and Southern California. The region in 

 question, "immediately adjoining the northern boundary of Mexico, 

 including the western part of Texas, and the greater part of New 

 Mexico, Arizona, and Southern California, is one of remarkable 

 heat and aridity"; it consists of elevated plains, intersected by 



