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' Classification des Loranthacees.' — J. Godefrin, ' Du bourgeon 

 dans le Sapin argente.' 



Bull. Torrey Bot. Club (Ap. 25). — E. G. Britton, 'Western 

 species of Orthotrichum : note on Weissia.' — C. de Candolle, ' New 

 J '// , rar, a from Bolivia.' — T. F. Allen, ' Cham gymnopvs A. Br., 

 and new species of Cham and Nitella' (8 plates). — J. K. Small, 

 ' New and interesting Polygonums ' (4 plates). 



Erythea (May).— E. L. Greene, 4 Observations on Composite.'— 

 Id., ' American species of Wulfenia.' — A. 3. M'Clatchie, Ribes h s- 

 P<>rium, R, «u!«runi, & /,'. nubigenum, spp. nn. — A. Davidson, 

 * Calif ornian Field Notes.' 



Gardeners' Chronicle (Ap. 28). — H. N. Ridley, ' Pothos fle.nmms' 

 (fig. 65) ( = Anadendrum medium).— (May 5). A. Engler, S„ . ;,,;,,„, 

 apieulata, sp. n. (fig. 68). — J. R. Jackson, « Whampoa Bamboo' 

 (figs. 69, 70). — (May. 12). Antholyza Schwdnfurthii Baker, sp. n. 

 —(May 19). Gazania bracteata N. E. Br., sp. n. 



Journ. de Botanique (May 1). — C. Sauvageau, ' Notes biologiques 

 sur les Potamogeton.' — G. Poirault, ' Les TJredines et leurs plantes 

 nourricieres.' — E. Bescherelle, ' Selectio novorum Muscorum.' 



journ. Linn. Soc. (xxx, 207: Mar. 19). — A. B. Rendle, 'Re- 

 vision of Nipadites ' (2 plates).— A. L. Smith, ' Anatomy of a plant 

 from Senegambia ' (1 plate). — W. B. Hemsley, ' Flora of Tonga 

 Islands ' : 3 plates, Saravanga, gen. nov. (Pandanacea?) . 



0 ester r. Bot. Zeitschrift (May). — F. Kranzlin, ' Orchidacese 

 Papuans*.' — E. Heinricher, 'Neue Beitrage zur Pflanzenteratologie.' 

 — R. v. Wettstein, 'Die Arten der Gattung Euphrasia.' — F. 

 Matouschek, ' Die Adventivknospen an den Wedeln von Cystopterh 

 bulbij'era ' (1 plate). — F. Arnold, ' Liclienologi3che Fragmented 



BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, Sc. 

 Arthur Hill Hassall was born at Teddington, Middlesex, on 

 the 13th of December, 1817. The account of his early days and 

 education published last year in his autobiography entitled The 

 Narrative of a Busy Life is an interesting record of the manners 

 and customs of the earlier part of the century. In 1834 he went 

 to Dublin to study in the Dublin School of Medicine, where he took 

 a prize for botany — a study which he had begun in very early years 

 when living at Richmond, where he collected plants and was an 

 enthusiastic gardener. At Dublin he took up with energy the study 

 of zoophytes, and became a correspondent of George Johnston and 

 a friend of Prof. Allman. On his return to England, about 1838, 

 he settled at Richmond, and, with the encouragement of Sir W. J. 

 Hooker and Mr. John Smith, resumed his botanical investigations: 

 bis first botanical paper, on the function performed by the hairs on 

 the stigma of Campanulacea, &c, was published in the Annals of 

 Natural History in 1842. He became M.R.C.S. in 1839, and 

 Licentiate of the Apothecaries' Company in 1841. Before he began 

 to practise, Hassall lived for a time at Cheshunt, Herts. Here he 



