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Wasserzug, 4 Principes procedes de coloration des Bact^ries.' 



D. Bois, ' Herborisations dans la departement de la Manche.' 



E. Bondier, ' Tremella Jimetaria Sebum.' 



Joum. Linn. Soc. (Bot. : xxiv.,No. 160: Nov. 28;. — H. Trimen, 

 ' Hermann's Ceylon Herbarium and Linnseus' ■ Flora Zeylanica.' ■ 

 R. A. Rolfe, ' Bigeneric Orchid Hybrids ' (1 plate). — H. Bolus, 

 'Contributions to S. African Botany' (Melhania griquensis, Celastrus 

 marttimits, Lotononis foliosa, Crotalaria griquensis, Argyrolobium 

 megarhizum, Senecio sociorum, S. namaquanus, S. albopunctatus, S. 

 Rehmanni, Erica tetrastigmata, E. Banrii, E. Cooperi, E. Missionis, 

 E. urna-viridis > E. adenophylla, E. hamantha, E. l)/soni, E. 

 Lerouxia, E. aspalathifolia, E. trichadenia, E. trachysantha, E. 

 cajfrorum, E. Brownleea, E. eriocodon y E. inops, E. natalitia, 

 Philippia tristis, spp. nn.). — D. H. Scott, ■ On Nuclei in Oscillaria 

 and Tolypothrix' (1 plate). — T. Ito, 'A Balanophora new to Japan ' 



(B. dioica Wall. (1 plate). — (No. 161 : Nov. 30). H. N. Bidley, 

 'A New Genus of Orchidea from the Island of St. Thomas' (Orestia: 

 0. unica, sp. unica : 1 plate). — S. le M. Moore, * The influence of 

 light upon protoplasmic movement.' — M. C. Potter, 'An Alga 

 (Dennatophyta radicans) growing on the European Tortoise ' (1 plate). 

 — C. Spegazzini & T. Ito, ' Fungi Japonici nonnulli ' (Eusarium 



oidioide Speg., Phyllosticta Tokutaroi Speg., Tuberculina japonica 



Speg., spp. nn.). — J. G. Baker, 'Ferns from West Borneo' 



(Matonia sarmentosa, Davallia pinnatifida , D. nephrodioides , Asplenium 

 crinitum, Nephrodium svhdigitatum, Polypodium subasboreum, P. quin- 

 quefurcatum, Gymnogramme chrysosora, G. campyloneuroides, Acro- 

 stichum oligodictyon, spp. nn.). — F. B. Forbes & W. B. Hemsley, 

 Index Florae Sinensis, part iv. (Dec.) (Astilbe polyandra, Saxifraga 



tabularis, Hydrangea longipes, Deutzia discoid 9 , Sednm jilipes , D.poly- 

 trichoides [i. 7), Eugenia Jluviatilis, Thladiantha? Henryi, T. nudi- 

 flora (t. 8), Begonia Heiiryi, Acanthopanax diver si folium, Cornus 

 hongko7igensis, spp. nn. : all of Hemsley). 



Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschrift (Dec). — K. v. Wettstein, ' Ueber einen 

 abnormen Fruchtkorper von Agaricus procerus. 1 — 0. Stapf, ' Ueber 

 einige Iris-Arten des bot. Gartens in Wien.' — B. Blocki, ' Rosa 



tierbichiana, sp. n.' 



LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



Dec. 1st. — William Carruthers, F.B.S., President, in the chair. 

 The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society: 

 Mr. K. H. Bennett (Sydney, N.S.W.), Lord Egerton of Tatton, 

 Mr. W. Francis, the Rev. F. W. Galpin, Mr. W. S. McMillan, Mr. 

 A. J. North (Melbourne, Victoria), Mr. J. Ogilby (Sydney, N.S.W.), 

 Mr. A. S. C. Stuart (Madras), Mr. G. Swainson, Mr. I. C. Thomp- 

 son, and Mr. C. Topp (Melbourne, Victoria). There was exhibited 

 for Mr. 0. Fraser, F.R.S., of the India Museum, Calcutta, a 

 specimen of what was supposed to be a weather-worn seed of a 

 palm. In a letter read at the meeting from Mr. Fraser, the object 

 in question was stated to have been picked up on the Madras 



