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Myxomycete.' — W. Mathews, ' History of County Botany of Wor- 

 cester' (contd.). — W. B. Grove & J. E. Bagnall, 'Fungi of 

 Warwickshire ' (contd.). 



TSuovo Giomale Bot. Italiano (Oct. 22). — G. Massalongo, ' Sulla 

 germogliazione delle sporule nelle Sphmropsidea .' — A. N. Berlese, 

 ' Sopra due parassiti della Vite per la prima volta trovati in Italia.' 

 — G. Gasperini, 'II Leghbi o vino di Palma.' — A. Borzi, ' Eremo- 

 thecium Cymbalarice, n. sp.' — L. Micheletti, ' Baccomendazioni 

 intese ad ottonere che l'ltalia abbia la sua Lichenografia.' — A. 

 Batelli, ' Escursione al M. Terminillo.' — G. Arcangeli, ' Sul germo- 

 gliamento della Euryaleferox.' — L. Macchiati, ' Xantofillidrina.' — 

 A. Borzi, ' Xerotropismo nelle Felci.' 



Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschrift. (Nov.). — B. Blocki, ' Rumex Kerneri 

 (R. conferta x obtusifolius).' — K. Vandas, ' Beitrage zur Kenntniss 

 der Flora von Sud-Hercegovina ' (contd.). — A. F. Entleutner, ' An- 

 langen in Meran.'— L. Simonkai, Tunica Haynaldimia. — M. Kron- 

 feld, ' Bemerkungen iiber volksthumliche Pflanzennamen.' — E. 

 Formanek, ' Zur Flora von Bosnien ' (contd. : Stachys Zepcensis, 



Scutellaria hercegovinica, spp. nn.). 



Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh (xvii., pt. 2: Nov.). — G. W. Traill, 

 •Marine AlgsB of Elie.' — E. Janczewski, 'Fruits of Anemone: — 

 Arthur Bennett, 'Additions to the Scottish Flora, 1887.' — W. 

 Craig, ' Excursion of Scottish Alpine Botanical Club to Hardanger 

 district of Norway, 1887.' — A. Gray & L. W. Hinxman, ' Flora of 

 West Sutherland.' — W. Couts, ' Visit to Glenure.' — B. Lindsay, 

 ' Heterophylly in Veronicas' (1 plate). — B. Christison, 'Annual 

 Increase in Girth of Trees.' — P. Sewell, ' Colouring Matter of 

 Leaves and Flowers.' -- W. E. Fothergill, 'Leaves of Climbing 

 Plants.'— Obituaries of Sir Walter Elliot, Asa Gray, and A. de Bary. 



LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



Nov. 1, 1888.— W. Carruthers, F.B.S., President, in the chair. 

 The following were elected Fellows of the Society : William Overend 

 Priestley, M.B., F.B.C.P., John Way, M.D., and John Evans, Esq. 

 Prof. Bower exhibited and made remarks upon some adventitious 

 buds on a leaf of Gnetum Gnemon.— The Bev. B. Baron read a paper 

 'On the Flora of Madagascar,' in which he gave an interesting 

 account of his explorations and collections in that island. In a 

 second paper, entitled 'Further Contributions to the Flora of 

 Madagascar,' Mr. J. G. Baker, F.B.S., described the principal 

 novelties brought home by Mr. Baron, and paid a well-deserved 

 tribute to his energy and ability as a botanical explorer. 



Nov. 15.— Mr. J. W. Stroud was elected a Fellow.— On behalf 

 of Mr. H. Bolus, F.H.S., Mr. J. G. Baker exhibited a specimen of 

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of leaf-structure. It was figured by Andrews in his ' Botanists' 

 Bepository ' in 1807, and lost sight of until recently re-found by 

 Mr. Bolus in Namaqua-land. — A paper was read by Mr. B. 1). 

 Jackson, on behalf of Mr. H. Chichester Hart, ' On the Mountain- 

 range of Plants in Ireland ' *nA w* a ffriturifw] bv Mr. J. G. Baker, who 



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