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botaniques et notamment dans l’Herbier Rouy.” We do not think 
the usefulness of this publication is equivalent to its costliness. If 
it were confined to types of rare and espn species, | : be of 
it i 
value; but this hardly seems to be the case, and not always 
clear whene nee the figure is derived. For omedaern the first plant in 
is number is Alyssum creticum be “pro parte’; specimens from 
which of them the figure is taken, and the type is in the Linnean 
Herbarium. Then follow two hybrid violets, the first named Viola 
Riolandi- Bonaparte! All the plants in this fascicle are from Herb. 
Rouy, and, except in the cases where that author’s own species are 
represented, do not appear to be in any way ater as types—at 
least, nothing in the text indicates that they are s 
MM K. G. Camus have issued a Ciatdiéon des Saules © 
d’ Europe et Monoy eee ine Saules de France, The work consists of 
an octavo volume of text and a osama Sontenmns forty not very 
satisfactory quarto ini and costs 80 fran 
Dr. Lapisraus Horiés has published (oni 80 marks) a hand- 
some folio volume, with —a very fine plates, devoted to Die 
Gasteromyceten Ungarn: 
Mr. J. M. Woop is  pomesaielp the publication of his useful 
illustrations of Natal Plants. The last instalment (vol. iv, pt. 2 
THE here of British Muasitta have issued the first vane, 
of The History of the Collections contained in the Natural History 
Depot: It Seite a full account, extending to over a hundred 
pages, of the eyeriom, prepared (with the assistance of Mr. 
by Mr. Britten, also helped Mr. B. B. Woodward in a 
ria library ot a Dene collections of drawings preser 
in the library of the Department of Botany. 
fuller notice later. .. publish a is 
Uses and Wonders of Plant-Hairs is the title As a little b 
Kate E. Styan (Bemrose & Sons, price 1s.), in which the vob 
found, of which at present we are ignorant.” Plant-names both 
popular and scientific, occasionally a stumbling- blocks home 
notice, for instance, the ‘amphibious persee aria,” Tragoy gon 
patensis, a and a few vinaclaas errors, which sake have 
been avoided, 
