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tion and Illustrations of the Myoporineous Plants of Australia, 
i. e. the lithograms, seventy-four plates, in a beautiful large 
quarto volume. The letter press is to come “somewhat later.” 
But that, as the author intimates, can wait, because the species 
here so admirably illustrated are all described either in the monu- 
mental Flora <Australiensis (which owes its value no less to 
Miiller’s labors than to Bentham’s), or in the Fragmenta Paytogr. 
Australie, a part of, the special and multitudinous work of the 
present author. There was a natural wish to give colored plates, 
which would have cost very much more, but would have been 
not much better for truly botanical purposes. The drawings are 
all by R. Graff, and are his first effort in this line. They are 
truly good, and the lithography does credit to the Government 
printing office at Melbourne, and to the Colony. 
The Report on the Primula Conference held at South Kensing- 
ton, April 20, 21, 1886, and on the Orchid Nomenclature Confer- 
ence held at Liverpool, on June 30, 1886, makes up vol. vii, no. 2, 
of the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, London. The 
most permanently interesting matter is the part relating to the 
origin and history of the cultivated Auricula, and next Dr. 
Masters’ paper on the root-structure and mode of growth of Pri- 
mulas, with copious illustrations. As to Orchid Nomenclature 
for the mass of varieties and forms in cultivation, the upshot of 
the conference seems to be, that the botanists should give scien- 
tific names to the more distinct forms, and the cultivators should 
not imitate those, but give fancy names—vernacular or other, but 
never Latin—to their own productions and to indicate those 
differences which the grower may value, but the botanist takes no 
account of. 
Professor Macoun’s Catalogue of Canadian Plants, part iii, 
Apetale, has just appeared, although the preface is dated April, 
1886, since which, we presume, it was printed. It is one of the 
publications of the Geological and Natural History Survey of 
Canada. This completes the first volume, carrying it on from 
p-. 395 to p. 623, including an elaborate appendix to the first and 
second parts, and a complete index to the volume. This volume 
embodies a vast amount of work, both in field and in herbaria, 
and is full of valuable observations. Our attention is particu- 
larly arrested by the observations on trees, especially the conif- 
erous trees, which naturally are most important as well as inter- 
esting. A. G. 
3. BoranicaL NrcroLtogcy For 1886.— The following are 
European : 
Epvuarp Morren, Professor of Botany and Director of the 
Botanical Institute at Liége, Belgium, son of a distinguished 
botanist, himself more distinguished, died at Liége, February 28, 
at the age of 53 years. 
Rey. Wma. W. NEwsouLp, a most acute and critical British 
botanist, died at Kew, April 16, at the age of 67. 
Dr. Wx. HILLEBRAND, who lived and botanized for several 
