126 Scientific Intelligence. 
Proceed. Am. Acad. 1867), with mature fruit, well showing the 
parietal placentation, and the close-coated seeds. ee 
ot, Dunge of Dorpat has brought out the first part of his 
Monograph of the Astragali of the Old World. It forms a fas- 
ciculus of 140 pages, in the current volume (11 of the 7th series) 
the use of names for sections in the same form as those of genera 
by adopting a plural termination or some like device. 
of the party, and sent along with a drawing, to Dr. Behr of San 
Francisco, who presented them to the late Prof. Schlechtendal of 
riginal o; in the Zeones Plantarum, and probably by 
one in Nuttall’s own herbarium now belonging to the British Mu- 
seum. Its are just published in an elaborate memoir: 
“ Die Familie der Lennoaceen, von He zu Solms- 
eTMann 
3 OF the Pamate issue from, the eleventh volume geal 
_ Actions of the Natural History Society of Halle, bearing the date 
_ of 1870. The three plotne: tasers in detail the three plants 
