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Bull. Torrey Bot. Club (Mar. 24). — A. M. Vail, « The genus 

 Psoralea in America.' — T. C. Porter, « Certain plants of our Eastern 

 Flora.' — A. A. Tyler, « Pubescence of styles and filaments of Lonu 

 cera ' (2 plates). — G. F. Atkinson, « Germination of spores of Cere- 

 bella PaspaW (1 plate). — B. D. Halsted, ' Shrinkage of Leaves in 

 Drying ' (1 plate). — J. K. Small, ' Morphological notes on Brun- 



Erythea (April 1).— E. L. Greene, ' Observations on Composite.' 

 — Id., « Historical Notes on Californian Trees.' — A. Davidson, 

 1 Californian Field Notes.' 



Gardeners' Chronicle (Mar. 31).— " Coelogyne Mossim Kolfe ined " 

 (fig. 49: no description).— (Ap. 7, 14). W. B. Hemsley, ' Captain 

 Dampier as a botanist ' (Ap. 14). W. G. Smith, « Disease of SciUa ' 

 (fig. 56). 



Journal de Botanique (Mar. 1).— F. Hy, 'Les Isoetes amphibies 

 de la France centrale.' — (Mar. 16; Ap. 1, 16). E. Bonnet, 



♦ Quelques plantes de Tunisie.' — (Mar. 16; Ap. 1). C. Sauvageau, 

 « Notes biologiques sur les Potamogeton: — (Mar. 16; Ap. 16). — . 

 Gasilien, ' Lichens des environs de Saint-Omer.' — (Ap. 1). M. 

 Gomont, Actinococcus. — (Ap. 1, 16). G. Poirault, 'Les Uredinees 

 et leurs plantes nourricieres.' — (Ap. 16). H. Christ, « Les fougeres 

 du Tonkin francais.' — N. Patouillard, ' Les Terfez de la Tunisie.' 



La Notarisia (April). — P. Pero, « I laghi alpini Valtellinesi.'— 

 R. France\ ' Le Genre Phythelws' (1 plate). — E. de Wildeman, 



• Treutepohlia Pittieri.' 



Nuovo Giom. Bot. Italiano (Ap. 1). — S. Sommier, Species of 

 Centaurea (1 plate).— A. Baldacci, 'Contribute alia conoscenza della 

 Flora Dalmata,' &c. — Id., ' Monografia della sezione Aizopsis del 

 genere Draba: — A. Preda, 1 Sopra alcuni frutti di Pyrus Malus 



Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschrift. (April). — F. Matouschek, ' Die Ad- 

 ventivknospen an den Wedln von Cystopteris bulbifera ' (2 plates).— 

 J. Bornmuller, 'Nachtrag zu Florula insulae Thrasos.'— F. Sauter, 

 ' Hepaticee aus Tirol.' — R. v. Wettstein, ' Untersuchungen fiber 

 Pflanzen der osterreichisch-ungarischen Monarchic' — A. Degen, 



* Ueber einige orientalische Pflanzenarten.'— F. Arnold, ' Licheno- 

 logische Fragmented— J. Freyn, ' Plants? novae Orientales.' 



Trans. Linn. Soc. (in., pt. 10: Feb.). — M. Benson, 'Contri- 

 butions to Embryology of Amentiferm ' (6 plates). 



BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, dc. 

 The Annals of Scottish Natural History for April contains a 

 biography and portrait of Dr. John Boy, whose death we briefly 

 announced on p. 64. Dr. Roy was born at Ardoch, in the parish 

 Of Fowlis Webster, in Perthshire, on Feb, 24, 1826, and devoted his 



