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nouvelles de la Flore d'Espagne.' — L. Guignard, ' Recherches sur 

 certains prineipes actifs chez lea Papayacees.' — A. Lemaire, • Deux 

 formes nouvelles de Coelattrum.' . St. Lager, 'Sur quelque8 



La Nuova Notarisia (Jan.). — P. Pero, 4 1 laghi alpini valtellinesi.' 

 — 0. Borge, 4 Uebersicht der neu erseheinenden Desmidiaceen- 

 Xiitteratur.' — G. B. de Toni, 4 1 nuovi Istituti scientifici pergli 

 studii delle Alghe marine.' 



Oesterr. Bot, Zeitschrift. (Mar.). — F. Arnold, 4 Lichenologische 

 Fragmented — E. Heinricher, 4 Studien an den Bliithen einiger 

 Scrophulariaceen.' — J. Freyn, 4 Plantse nova? Orientales.' — A. V. 

 Degen, ' Bemerkungen liber einige orientaliscbe Pflanzenarten.'— 

 F. v. Mueller, ' Ueber die Giftigkeit der Hovieria-Avten: 



BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, Sc. 



The Messrs. Durand announce for early publication a Census 

 ^Otchtdearum, to appear as soon as a sufficient number of sub- 

 scriptions have been received to justify the undertaking. The 

 work is to appear in five parts of 200 pp. each, and the subscription 

 price is 6 fr. for each part. Each name will be followed by the 

 place and date of publication, with other information. There can 

 be no doubt as to the utility of such an undertaking, and M. Th. 

 Durand's previous work in the same direction affords sufficient 

 guarantee that it will be excellently done. 



The first volume of the Conspectus Flora Africa, which M. Th. 

 Durand and Dr. Schinz are preparing, will shortly appear, and the 

 second volume also is announced for the present year. The first 

 instalment, which will contain the Monocotyledons, and extend to 

 800 pages, has been wisely delayed, in order to allow of the MS. of 

 the Cyperacea being read and annotated by Mr. G. B. Clarke, the 

 monographer of that order. 



We have to thank Prof. Marc Micheli for a copy of his 

 interesting and appreciative notice of "Alphonse DeCandolle et 

 son ceuvre scientifique," reprinted from the Archives des Sciences 

 for December last. It contains a portrait and an excellent biblio- 

 graphy, in which we note that the remarks on nomenclature, pub- 

 lished in this Journal for 1888 (p. 289), do not find a place. 



Ma. F. M. Bailey sends us another instalment of his Contri- 

 butions to the Queensland Flora (Queensland Dept. of Agriculture, 

 Botany Bulletin, no. viii. Dec. 1893), in which, as usual, several 

 new species are described. There are also several nomina nuda 

 among the fungi, of which the authors' descriptions are " not yet 

 to hand," and which should, we think, have been withheld until 

 they could have been published in proper form. We are glad to 

 note that Mr. Bailey has been confirmed in his post as Colonial 

 Botanist, in which capacity he is doing excellent work. 



