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represent the vegetation only of the outskirts of a vast terra in- 
cognita, of whic ay hope to know something ere long, and 
The ninth — of Dr. Seemann’s Flora Vitiensis, nearly con- 
i hanerogamia, has been for some time issued; and 
the 10th, which will complete this laborious work, is in press. 
very interesting paper On the Geographical Distribution of Ferns, 
= the last (26th) volume of the Transactions of the Linnzan 
; 1 
Oliver, has now commenced a third series, of which two parts are 
issued, one in November, 1867, the other in June, 1868, and a 
third part is in press. The plates are numbered on from volume 10 
(which is.a convenience in citation) viz: 1001 to 1050. They are 
n from plants in the Kew Herbarium, and will serve to illus- 
trate some of the work going on in that richest of botanical collec- 
tions, and notably, as it proceeds, the Genera Plantarum. Thus 
nn, from New Mexico, in which Prof. Oliver directs attention 
to some apparent peculiarity of the ovule, which needs investiga- 
tion in the fresh plant; and Leitneria Floridana of Chapman, 
which Prof. Oliver describes as having a thin but evident layer of 
albumen around the embryo, and he agrees with Chapman in refer- 
ring the genus to Myricacew, although with misgivi 
A whole volume of the Linnean Society (the 
elfth, issued in advance of the eleventh), is occupied with an 
enumeration an sc all known Mosses of South 
d 
America, by Mr. Mitten, founded primarily on Spruce’s collections, 
which have been distrib i 
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