254 SHORT NOTICES. 
could hardly fail with this work in his hands to recognise the 
species he may find in his country ram Aap caer ially if he 
ec ren Seome gy the “eseriptions which are issued Beige 
eville 
author may see its satisfactory co pleti If all our pore 
of Botany and all our public libraries possessed | themselves of a 
copy, this result would . secured. Wituram Parxies. 
Tue Index number of ‘ English Botany ’ has just been issued, 
forming a companion to the whole work, to which it is a useful 
adjunct. Its bulk might have been materially lessened, and its 
nage gs in no way diminished, uy the omission of the greater 
of the so-called English, French and German names. It is 
§ , 
pak as likely that any Frenchman ever called Meconopsis ‘* Méco- 
nopside des Galles "’ as it is that any sane Engli call 
Rubus thyrsoideus the yrsus-flowered Bramble,” or Carex de- 
pauperata the ‘ Biarved Wood Sedge” ; and this is very unlikely 
indeed. Mr. N ‘undertaken the arduous work, 
De aL C. Cooxe has issued the first number of ‘British 
Desmids: a Supplement to . Fresh-water Alge’; it contains 
16 pages of letterpress and 8 pla 
New Booxs.—G. Krassr, ‘ Das gleitende Wachsthum bei der 
Gawelchatine der Gefiisspflanzen (Berlin, Eggers: 4to, pp. Vi 
, tt. 7.) —D. Maxper, ‘Der Wald in seiner (ralturhistorischen 
und | naturgeschichtlichon Bedeutung’ (Devos, Richter: 8v, PP. 
96).— A. Knenoxer, ‘Fiihrer durch die Flora von Karlsruhe’ 
L. Q 
rum 
(Paris, Doin: 8yo, pp. vill. 352).—J. Dunac, ‘Mélanges botaniques : 
plantes cal critiques, monstrueuses, ou rares’ fone Savy: 
8vo, pp- Xxili. 484). ak — ‘Flora von Wesel’ (Wesel, 
Kihler, 8vo, pp. vili. 44).—F. G. Kout, ‘ Die ‘Transpiration der 
Pflanzen’ (Baurnschweig, any, 8vo, pp. 22, t —— A, Voc eae 
& ANGELRopT, * Blora v splicgergers und der Saleen Umgegend 
Berlin, Friedlander: iis. pp. Vili. 8332),—K. Huser & A. BECKER, 
‘Pathologish- -Histologischen und Bacteriologischen Untersuchungs- 
Methoden ’ (Leipzig, Vogel: 8vo, 122, 1 tab.). 
ARTICLES IN JoURNALS. 
Botanical Gazette (June).—‘ Herbarium Number.’ * 
Bot. Zeitung (June 11-July 9). — A. de Bary, ‘ Ueber einige 
Sg! SR a aa 
a beet A — ce. which we hope to see reissued weparaiely. It is 
tains n ‘Specimens and Specimen making,’ and ‘How 
ao dolloct eottain plants,” by Phen sae 
suggestions. Y practised hands, abounding with useful 
