Botany and Zoology. | tT 
III. Botany anp ZooLoey. 
Monographia Festucarum ee oe E. Hacket. 
Gravel and Berlin. Th. Fischer, 1882, pp. 216, tab. 4. 8vo.—A 
noteworthy monograph, by an Austrian osehaues (in the Geen 
nasium at St. Poelten, Austria) who has already made bis ere 
as an —— logist. The first part of the work, in German, 
morphological and histological ; and to this belong the ‘excellent 
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has Seven, ete. estuca rubra, L., the type of the extravaginales, : 
rejoices in on subspecies, po of which ran to seven varieties, 
and some of the varieties run to as many subvarieties. Very 
thorough - work —— ied much better for the student, as — 
of these rhe to oa: rank of 4 As Ge. ak 
2. Atlas de la Flora des Environs de Paris, par « MM i 
Cosson et GerMAIN DE Sauer Pr RE.—This second edition vis ere 
lished by Masson, 1882, in 8vo), ‘conipeiogs 659 figures on 47 cop- — 
per-plates ; the older plates, as is oe were by on e of the 
authors and b y Riocreux; the five new ones are by Cus A... 
are admirable ; — to this edition two pages of eter press are. 
= to each pla ne 
:  Conpendeien, Flore Atlantice, par E. Cosson.—This Flock A 
