420 Scientific Intelligence. 
Botanical Publications and Intelligence.—Among the pub- 
sett ee ee come to hand the most important to American 
botanists 1 
enera A aw an Arrangement of the North American 
Lichens, by renee Tuckerman, M.A. Amherst: Edwin Nelson. 
872. pp. xv, 281, 8vo.-—This small volume contains the i 
and long- Ae yi! results at many years of earnest study, a 
and completed. Then our students of lichens, and those who 
would fain be such, will for the first time be supplied with er 
books for the study, and those of the very highest order of meri 
print and paper are truly excellent, and if, as the imprint in 
cates, the composition and press-work were done in a coun 
office, ae . regs derfi 
The a of British India, by J. D. Hooxsr, CB. &e., 
sessed ee es Botanists. Part L . 208, 8vo. London: : L. 
Reeve & Co, 1872.—The Indian Flora is here begun saath “in a 
form po scope 8 with a vigor which render its completion hope 
: os 
f Dr. 
Thomson’s Indian Flora, being CSR RDE g on account of the long 
Geatianed ill-health of the latter and the manifold other duties % 
e former, the task is now taken up m dvantageously in 8 
nee — that of the other British Colonial floras, but still aie 
eed, messy on the model of Dr, Hooker's Flora ° 
ndian species are described in it. The present half wee 
begins with Pieindidanas and ends with Polygala ae te 
Tho omson’s nam : : i 
A. W. perk its 
: oe a Monthly Record of e! togamic Botany and 
Literature; edited by M. A. Cooke, M.A. Williams & Norgat® 
8vo. In parts of 16 3; sixpe nee a number; five shillings * 
___- year. —Three num Ful y—September, are before us; each has 
a plate, colored or plain; ~~ although Sans naturally predomi 
