426 Scientific Intelligence. 
search have unearthed a few long buried and forgotten names for 
well known ferns :—Prteris nA Raddi (1825) was found 
by Dr. Kuhn to be the same as Pohliana of Presl. (1822), 
and now we must go back ek dee sade more to Pteris eoncolor 
Langsdorff and Fisher Aunt Can any one find a yet more an- 
cient name for it? It is gratifying to see, in a note, that the Afri- 
can Cheilanthes Kirkii is now confessed to be e probably an adian- 
topsoid variety of this same species, the only difference being in 
the interrupted instead of continuous involucre. 
Synonymy given by Mr. Baker is — without being profuse : 
the characters are well drawn up, and the descriptions clear. 
re are several pages of letter press devoted to the geographical 
distribution of Brazilian Cytheacee and Polypodiacee. If the 
seme elaborated by Dr. Sr could have been included in the 
and 
Oxford pitts is the theme of a discourse moan ey 
Prof. Lawson,—the successor in the professorial chair of the 
worthies he commemorates,—at the recent Con ngress held at Ox- 
ford fe the Royal Horticultural ng The history begins 
first curator. y of Dr. 
ae mpi in 1669; of his successor, Toot Bobart, Hist 
, or ee Sherwood” who e-endowed the chit, 
of Dr. Hu : 
tinguished son, Dr. John Sibthorp, who succeeded his father in 
1784, and died at the age of 38 in 1796, bequeathing new endow- 
ments and the foundation of the associated chair of Rural coer Y 
after ee ae for the Sid ts gina of the sumptuous Flora 
His success ; i 
tice of the sas es incumbent and patron, Dr. Daubeny, brings down 
the history to the present time. 
Dr. ors who has long been stud fad the Vorinelynac’, 
the Aehipttag 0, with occasional genera and species of other parts 
of the world; an octavo of 182 pages, piblished at Vienna. en 
in this partial re representation of the order over eke Eeaere * are ad- 
of Dr. Hasskarl’s _ 
Society, Nos Be 55, aon to- 
in Septem oer ‘ia poe year. The hes d the most import- 
the longest, article is 
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