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bulbs in Scilla' (figs. 45, 46).— (Mar. 17). Cypripedium dilectum 

 Rchb. f. "n. sp. (hyb.-nat.)."— (Mar. 24). W. Watson, ■ Prolifera- 

 tion in Utriciilaria ' (fig. 54). 



Journal de Botaniqae (Mar. 1). — A. Franchet, ■ Les Mutisiacees 

 du Yun-nan ' [Xouelia (gen. nov., 1 plate) insiynis, Gerbera raphani- 

 folia, G. riificoma, G. Delavayi, Ainslicca yunnanensis, A. pertyoides, 

 1 plate, spp. nn.). — H. Douliot, ' Sur le periderme des Legumi- 

 nensis.' — (Mar. 16). E. Strasburger, ■ Sur la division des noyaux 

 cellulaires, la division des cellules, etla fecondation.' — J. Costantin, 

 4 Note sur un Papulaspora ' (1 plate). 



Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xxiv. 162 (Mar. 12). — J. R. Vaizey, 

 1 On Anatomy and Development of Sporogonium of Mosses ' 

 (4 plates). — G. Henslow, ' Transpiration as a Function of living 

 Protoplasm. Transpiration and Evaporation in a saturated atmo- 

 sphere.' — H. N. Ridley, ' Revision of Microstylis and Malaxis ' (many 

 new species). 



Midland Naturalist (March).— W. Mathews, ■ History of County 

 Botany of Worcester. — J. E. Bagnall, * The Warwickshire Stour 

 Valley and its Flora.' 



Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschrift. (Mar.). — K. Fritsch, ' Zur Nomenclatur 

 unserer Cephalanthera-kxten: — L. v. Virkotinovic, ' Neue Eichen- 

 formen.' — L. Celakovsky, * Orientalische Pflanzenarten' (con- 

 cluded). — A. Hausgirg, ' Zur Algenflora Bohmens ' (cont.). — P. 

 Conrath, < Zur Flora von Bosnien.' — P. G. Strobl, ■ Flora des 

 Etna' (cont.). — E. Formanek, 'Flora von Nord-Mahren ' (con- 

 cluded).— Zukal, < Wahring der Prioritat.' 



LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



March Ut, 1888. — William Carruthers, F.R.S., President in 

 the chair. — The following were elected Fellows of the Society : 

 Messrs. J. T. Baker, J. B. Farmer, H. P. Greenwood, J. F. 

 Maiden, A. G. Renshaw, A. E. Shipley, and J. A. Voelcker. — 

 An interesting collection of Ferns from the Yosemite Valley was 

 exhibited by Mr, W. Ransom, who also showed some admirable 

 Photographs of rare plants, many of them of the natural size.— 

 The first paper of the evening was then read by Mr. E. G. 

 Baker, ■ On a New Genus of Cytinacta from Madagascar.' This 

 curious plant, to which the author has given the name of B n/o- 

 ytmu$ t grows parasitically on the trunks of a tree of the natural 

 order Hamamelidm. Its nearest ally is Cythnis, of which the best 

 known species grows on the roots of the Cistuses of the Mediter- 

 r m basin. The Madagascar plant is without any stem, and the 

 sessile flowers grow in clusters, surrounded by an involucre. Each 

 cluster is universal, and the ovary is unicellular, with about a dozen 

 parietal placentas, and innumerable minute ovules. It was dis- 

 covered during a recent exploration of the Sakalava -country by the 

 Ke v. R. Baron, of the London Missionary Society. — The next 

 Paper, by Mr. J. F. Cheeseman (communicated by Sir Joseph 



