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of the “ Plants of the glades and bluffs, of calcareous soils;” of the 
“Oak barrens and highlands, siliceous and argillaceous soils ;” and 
of ‘Plants peculiar to West Tennessee,” the eastern part of Cre- 
taceous, the western of Tertiary and Post-tertiary deposits. Then 
comes the systematic catalogue, in which the species occurring 
within thirty miles of Nashville are printed in full faced type. 
Recently published species are given with characters in foot-notes. 
Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France.—In the 33d volume 
M. Franchet begins his Plante Yunnanses, an aecount of the 
collections from the interior Chinese province of Yun-nan. Begin- 
ning in the fifth fascicle, it is carried on in the sixth through the 
Anacardiacee. M. Clos, having proposed the term pistllodium 
as the analogue of staminodium, M. Cogniaux, on p. 470, calls 
attention to his use of it in the Flora Brasiliensis, in 1878, and 
thinks the term as needful as staminodium. That is not quite 
clear; the latter term is free from ambiguity. Pistilodium may 
be the homologue either of a carpel or of a circle of carpels. 
M. Hérail and Blottiere have a paper on the histology of the 
Lardizabulew. They come to the conclusion that De Candolle 
was probably right in appending this group to the Menisperma- 
cece, that, in any case, they are not Berberidacee. 
Prorrssor A. W. Eicuuer, Director of the Botanical Garden 
at Berlin (where he succeeded Alexander Braun), editor of the 
Flora Brasiliensis, a systematic botanist of the first class and a 
man most highly esteemed, died on the second of March, after a 
lingering illness. He was one of the foreign honorary members 
of the botanical section of the American Academy of Arts and 
Sciences. 
M. Bornet delivered before the Academy of Sciences of the 
Institute of France, at the close of last year, a most appreciative 
notice of the late L. R. Tulasne, whose chair in the Academy he 
fills. It has now been published, and to it is appended a full list 
of Tulasne’s publications. 
Botanical Contributions, 1887 (a revision of some Polypeta- 
lous Genera and Orders, Sertum Chihuahuaense, Appendix, Mis- 
cellanea), by Asa Gray, are here mentioned only to state that a 
portion of the manuscript, accidentally omitted on p. 273, is sup- 
plied at the end, p. 314. Another grave oversight was not dis- 
covered in time. The paragraph in the middle of the page 299, 
beginning “ A. acerifolia” was to have been erased from the 
printer’s copy, being in fact replaced by the paragraph next 
below, beginning “ A. Thurberi.” The lines printed by mistake 
have been cancelled by the pen in all or most of the distributed 
copies. A. G 
2. Outlines of Classification and Special Morphology of 
Plants, by Dr. K. Gasper, Professor in the University of Ros- 
tock; a new edition of Sachs’ Text-Book of Botany, Book II. 
Authorized English translation, by Henry E. F. Garnsry, 
Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Revised by Isaac BAYLEY 
Batrour, M.A., M.D., F.R.S., Fellow of Magdalen: College and 
