70 Scientific Intelligence. 
2. Repertorium Annuum Literature Botanic Periodicw, eu- 
ee G. C. W. Bounenzixc, Custos iothece Societatis Te ye 
leriane. Tom. vi. — op. 420, Evo. —This most laborious 
ok, painstaking work has gone on to the sixth volume, systemati- 
cally cataloguing ‘the franca articles in current periodicals. 
is volume, issued in the year 1881, deals with the articles which 
were published i in the year 1877, in 237 different oe 
3. Jahrbuch des Kéniglichen Botanischen Gartens und des 
Botanischen Museums zu Berlin ; herausgegeben von 
Ercuter. Band I. Berlin, 1881, 8vo, 351, tab. vi—A new ae 
cal periodical, in the form of an annual voliume , intended especially 
to represent the work done by the accomplished director and oth- 
ers at the Berlin Botanic Garden and Museum. Naturally it will 
e more ues to systematic a henogamous botany than is 
common in the German journals of the present day; and, as is 
fitting, the tues will be merged in it. 
The Bee is royal octavo, paper and print excellent, and the 
type Rom proper commencement is the opening article 
which fills ee half the volume, in which, after a briet state- 
during the three years of his direction, the complete history of 
these establishments is given by Dr. Urban, the assistant director 
of the garden. Three plates exhibit ground plans of the garden, 
in 1801, in 1812, and 1881, and a photogr eu aot view of the 
“Ee Eichler has articles upon Infloresncnse-balblesa upon Hete- 
rogeneous shoots; upon the nature of the Vine-stem as to its mor- 
ology; upon Cephalotus-pitehers ; Garcke, a synopsis of Pavo- 
nia (in which P. Leconte? is kept distinet from P. hastata, though 
it seems to be only a waif of that South American species) ; 
ihmer, an article upon wild and cultivated Pharingian hybrids; 
Urban, on the pollenization of Lobeliacee, with a monograph of 
Monopsis ; F. C. Dietrich, a biography of the Rctestor Sieber, 
with an enumeration of his distributed Pid a and a list of 
names to the numbers (645) of his Herbarium Flora Nove Hol- 
landiew ; Potonié describes the Anatomy of the Lenticels of Marat- 
tiacee, "the stomatic apparatus of Ferns, etc.; Ascherson has an 
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article on the subfloral axis as apparatus for dissemination, as in 
Stipa, Erodium, Podopterus, Brunnichia, ete.; and in an iS he 
characterizes a new African Brunnichia, the "same Sabah as 
one which has been or is about to be figured in the [cones ie 
