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the public a catalogue of botanical works such as has never before 
been issued. The titles are printed on one side of each sheet 
only, so that additions may readily be entered on the blank pages. 
Four alphabets are made: “General,” “ Travels,” “ Periodicals and 
Serials,” and “ Manuscripts.” Tr: 
The Flora of New Zealand.1— The Education Department of 
the New Zealand Government has issued a handy volume compris- 
ing Ranunculacee to Composite, and forming part of the Students’ 
Flora of that region, on which the late Professor Kirk was at work 
at the time of his death. From an introductory notice it appears 
that arrangements are likely to be made for completing the work, 
and it is said that the figures selected to illustrate the Z%ora, and 
which are to be printed from an unpublished set of copperplates 
engraved many years ago for Sir Joseph Banks, will form a separate 
volume. a 
Botanical Notes. — In Vol. XVI of the Zransactions of the Kan- 
sas Academy of Science Professor Hitchcock publishes the first 
part of a ‘“List of plants in my Florida herbarium.” The list is 
arranged in the familiar sequence of Bentham and Hooker, and 
extends from Ranunculacee through Bromeliaceæ, and includes 
twelve hundred and fifty-six numbered species and varieties, for 
each of which localities are cited. 
Part XIII of Mr. Macoun’s “ Contributions to Canadian Botany,” 
published in Zhe Ottawa Naturalist for October, contains notes on 
the distribution of a considerable number of critical species, among 
which the blue violets are especially notable. 
The Revue Tunisienne for October contains the concluding part of 
a catalogue of the vascular plants of the vicinity of Carthage, which 
should be of interest to travelers in the Mediterranean. It is curi- 
ous to observe that only one fern, the true maidenhair, is recorded. 
An excellent photograph of the trunk of well-grown American 
white birch is contained in Forest Leaves for October. 
An analysis of the frond and stipe anatomy of the ferns of the 
French Flora, and an analytical key to the genera, based on ana- 
tomical characters, are contributed by Parmentier to Vol. IX of the 
Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique. 
1 Kirk, T. Zhe Students’ Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands. 
Wellington. 
