852 BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 



Gardeners 9 Chronicle (Oct. 1). — Calanthe Sanderiana Eolfe, 

 Cusparia undulata HemsL, spp. nn. — ■ Cleistogamy.' — (Oct. 8). 

 Peperomia inquilina HemsL, sp.n. — R. A. Eolfe, fc Galeandra.' 

 (Oct. 24). Albuca Bachanani Baker, sp.n. 



Journal de Botanique (Sept. 1-16). — A. Franchet, ■ Les Lis de 

 la Chine et du Thibet.' — J. Huber, ■ Sur la valeur morphologique 

 et histologique des poils et des soies dans les Chaetophorees.' 

 (Oct. 1). E. G. Camus, 'Monographic des Orchidees de France.' 

 P. Viala & C. Sauvageau, 'La Brunissure et la Maladie de Cali- 

 fornie.' — L. Mangin, ■ Proprietes et reaction des composees pec- 

 tiques.' — (Oct. 16). J. Vesque, 'La tribu des Clusiees.' 



Jonrn. Linn. Soc. (xxix. No. 202 : Oct. 12). — D. Morris, 

 1 Forked and Branched Palms.' — W. B. Hemsley, ' Botanical 

 Collection made by Mr. A. E. Pratt in Western China' (5 plates). 

 J. Mueller, ' Lichenes Epiphylli Spruceani.' — H. B. Guppy, 

 1 The Thames as an agent in plant dispersal.' 



Nuovo Giornale Bot. Ital. (Oct. 1). L. Nicotra, ' Elementi 

 statistici della flora siciliana.' 



Oexterr. Bot. Z ' citschrift . (Oct.). — K. Fritsch, ' Nomenclatorische 

 Bemerkungen.' — H. Braun, Thymus glahrescens Wild. — L. Charrel, 

 1 Plantae ann. 1888-91 in Macedonia collects. ' — J. Freyn, 'Plants 

 novre Orientales' (Hieraciiim armeninm, Verbascwn caudatum, V. 

 stachydi folium, V. nitiduhtm 9 Scrophularia Bornmulleri, Salvia yos~ 

 pa den sis, 8. Freyniana, spp. nn.). 



BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, dc. 



The Botanical Department of the British Museum has acquired 

 a very complete set of Hepatics, consisting of nearly 500 specimens, 

 collected by the distinguished botanist, Bichard Spruce, during his 

 travels on the Biver Amazon and the Andes of South America, 

 between the years 1849 and 1862. They were monographed with 

 the great accuracy and genius which characterise all Mr. Spruce's 



work, in the Hepaticce of the Amazon and of the Andes of Peru and 

 Ecuador, 1885, Triibner (Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical 

 Society of Edinburgh, vol. xv.). We may mention that Mr. Spruce 

 has undertaken to name the Hepatics collected in the islands of 

 St. Vincent and Dominica by Mr. W. E. Elliott for the West India 

 Committee. 



The second part of Phycological Memoirs is announced as in 

 preparation : it will contain papers on the structure and systematic 

 position of Halicystis, by the Editor, Mr. George Murray ; on the 

 structure and development of Xotheia anomala, by Miss Mitchell ; 

 on a comparison of the marine floras of the warm Atlantic and 

 Indian Ocean, by the Editor; on West Indian Alga?, by the Editor ; 

 and Notes on Fucacea, by Miss A. L. Smith, Miss Barton, and Miss 

 F. G. Whit tin 



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