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Although from a solitary specimen available the degree of variability 
of this plant eannot be preconceived, yet the characteristics are such, as 
to lead to the assnmption, that we have in this instance to deal with ä 
})lant of real specific distinetiveness, and one which like many others,, 
brought to knowledge already from the same locality is quite restricted 
to that region. 
The lady-finder has sent from there also DuLoisia Leichhcirdtii with 
fruit, whereby the generic positions of that rare and therapeutically im¬ 
portant plant is now also affirmed. She collected with the aid of accom- 
plislied daughters also BurtonLa foliolosa , Goodenia vaceiaosa and some 
other rare plants. A. ledifolia occurs also on the Genoa; A. (ongifolia 
on Shoalhaven ^Baeuerlen); A. pterocurpa between the sources of the 
Nagoa and Glenlee in the sandstone-gorges (F. Clewett); on Mount Wheler 
(Thozet); on the Upper Barcoo (Archer). 
Tlrismia Rodwayi. 
Stein flexuous, short, undivided, colourless: leaves few, scattered, 
bract-like, rudimentary, semilanceolar, acuminate ; flovver solitary; involucre 
close tho the flower consisting of three small semilanceolar appressed 
bracts, like the leaves colourless: calix tiesh-coloured, somewhat succulent, 
almost campanulate; lobes much shorter than tlie tnbe, semilanceolar- 
deltoid, spreading; petals emanating from the summit of the calyx-tube, 
about twice as long as the calyx-lobes, converging, ovate-cuneate, at the 
summit overlapping and there connate, by the excurrent carinular line 
apiculate; stamens detiexed, tixed at the summit of the calyx-tube; filaments 
broad, connate, dark-red towards tlieir base, continued beyond the anther- 
cells iuto a pale membranous dilated and minutely biapiculated connective ; 
anther cells ellipsoid, parallel, slightl}" distant from each other; style 
short; Stigmas three, bitid; ovulary one-celled, almost hemispheric, excavated 
at the top; placentaries nearly cordate; ovules very numerous, the laxe 
integument much and equally extending beyond the uucleus. 
Near the Denvent; L. Rodway. 
Length of stein to about three inclies, Flower about 2 /a-inch long. 
Ripe fruit not obtained. 
This plant connects the genera Thismia and Bagnisia, so that the 
species of the latter should merge also into Thismia; indeed, Geomitra 
might likewise be transferred to that genus. If however these three are 
separately maintained, then the new Tasmanian plant could also be generi- 
cally isolated, and might then receive the name JRodwaya thismiacea.] 
Vasey, George and Rose, J. N., Plants collected in 1889 at Socorro and • 
Clavion Islands, Pacific Ocean. (Proceedings of the U. St. National-Museum 
of Washington. VTl. XIII. 1890. p. 145—149.) 
W ettstein, R. VOM, Dr. Günther Ritter Beck von Mannagetta: Flora 
von Niederösterreich. I. Tlieil besprochen. (Oesterr. botan. Zeitschrift. 1890. 
p. 21.) 
Palaeontologie: 
Holm, Theodor, Notes on the leaves of Liriodendron. 
St. National-Museum of Washington. Vol. XIII. 1890. 
(Proceedings of the II. 
p. 15—35. Plates 4—9.) 
Teratologie und Pflanzenkrankheiten : 
Ralle, Emile, Fatal ogne descriptif des galles observees aux environs de Vire, 
Calvados. (Extrait du Bulletin de la Socictd des amis des Sciences naturelles 
de Rouen. Tome II. 1889.) 8°. 28 pp. Rouen (Impr. Lecerf) 1890. 
Bergevi», Kniest de, Note sur une forme anomale du Leucanthemum vulgare 
Lam. (1. c) 8°. 14 pp. Rouen (Impr. Lecerf) 1890. 
— —, Note sur le cas de synanthie du Digitalis purpurea. (1. c.) 8°. 3 pp. 
Rouen 1890. 
Fr Uh auf, In welcher Weise lässt sich die Bekämpfung der Peronospora am 
sichersten durchführen? (Allgein. Wein-Zeitung. 1890. No. 40. p. 453—454.) 
Maskcll, W. M., How do coccids produce eavities in plants ? (Entoinologist’s 
Monthly Magaz. 1890. Nov. p. 277—280.) 
Thomas, Fr., Die Blattflohkrankheit der Lorbeerbäume. (Gartenflora. 1890. 
p. 42.- 
