286 : NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Tue last part (Vol. ix. pt. i.) of the ‘Annales du Jardin 
Botanique de Buitenzorg’ contains papers by M. Treub on the 
Cycadee, and on the embryo, embryo-sac and ovules; and W. 
Burck on the floral organisation in some Rubiaceae, and on the 
Fern-flora of Borneo. 
Tue last part (1883-4) of the Proceedings of the British 
Naturalist’s Society contains a further instalment of Mr. J. W. 
_ White’s ‘ Flora of the Bristol Coal-fields’ (bringing the list down 
to Amentifere), and of Mr. i all’s ‘Fungi of the 
Bristol District’; as well as a paper by Mr. White, on certain intro- 
duced plants of the neighbourhood, entitled ‘ Flora of the Avon Bed.’ 
Mr. Tuomas Kirk sends us a fascicle of short papers lately 
contributed by him to the Transactions of the New Zealand 
Institute. The following new species are described :—Podocarpus 
acutifolius (with figure), Aciphylla Traillii, Olearia Traillii, Brachy- 
come Thomsonit (fig.), Raoulia Goyeni, Amphibromus fluitans (fig.) 
Carmichaelia Enysii (fig.), C. uniflora (fig.). 
An admirable model of what a popular monograph should me 
comes to us from New York, in Mr. H. Baldwin’s ‘ Orchids © 
of this interesting group of plants. Such standard authors a 
sa Gray and Meehan are largely quoted; but 
volu mere pilation, for the writer ev! 
own artist, and gives figures, which are a little too sketchy, of most 
of the species. Why should not our British orchids be treated in 
like manner ? 
Every working botanist will weleome a new edition (the tenth) 
of Prof. Morren’s indispensable ‘ Correspondance Botanique.’ It 
has been revised with great care, the help of botanists in various 
countries having contributed to render it very complete. oO 
publisher's name or price is given; we believe it may be obtained 
from Prof. Morren, Liége, at very small cost. 
The ‘Report and Transactions of the Penzance Natural His- 
tory and Antiquarian Society’ for 1883-84 contains, among other 
interesting matter, papers by Mr. Ralfs and Mr. Curnow on ‘ The 
Marine Algz of West Cornwall’ - an interesting study of the flora 
of a very limited district entitled «Carn, Marsh, Wood, and Hedge- 
row,’ by Mr. Samuel Tait; a paper on the Sphagnums of ‘est 
Cornwall,’ by Mr. Curnow; and two chatty articles, ‘The Mossists 
on the Tramp’ and ‘A Lichen Supper.’ 
ROUMBIE Brown sends us another of his useful works on 
forest science, entitled ‘Forestry in Norway’ (Edinburgh: Oliver & 
Boyd). Although avowedly a compilation, it is, like the rest of the se- 
ries, an extremely useful and well-arranged handbook of the subject. 
