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Fungi. (J. D. Hooker, M.D., F.R.S.) On three new species of Acrotrema from 
Ceylon. Botanical Information.—Extract from the Report of Dr. Ferdinand 
Mueller, the Government Botanist of Victoria. Dr. Mueller takes advantage 
of the curious fact of the existence in the heart of the Australian Alps of such 
plants as Alchemilla vulgaris, Botrychium lunaria and others, to suggest that 
there is no foundation for the theory that all species emigrated each from its 
own centre of creation. Notices of Books. Geographie Botanique Raisonnee ; 
par M. Alph. de Candolle. Dr. L. Lindsay’s Popular History of Lichens. 
No. 92, September:—(William Mitten) A List of the Musci and Hepaticae 
collected in Victoria, Australia; by Dr. F. Mueller. (G. H. Thwaites, F.L.S.) 
Description of new genera and species of Ceylon Plants, and a note of the genus 
Prosorus, Dalzell. (Rev. M. J. Berkeley, A.M., F.L.S.) Decades of Fungi; 
Decades 61, 62; with plates 5,’ 6, 9, and 10. Rio Negro Fungi. Botanical 
Information.—Flora Vectensis. Bunya-Bunya. The fruit of the Araucaria 
Bidwilli Hook. Mexican Botany:—Collections of Plants on sale with Mr. R. 
F. Hohenaker, Esslingen, near Stuttgart. Araucaria imbricata. Notices of 
Books.—Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland. Nature printed. Analecta Bota- 
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don : W. Pamplin. With Plates. New Series. No. 15, July ; No. 16, August; 
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H. A. Stowell) Some observations on the Flora of Faversham. (T. Moore, F.L.S.) 
On the Vascular Bundles of the Stipes of Ferns, and a note on Lastrea spinulosa. 
On Pulmonaria augustifolia, and P. officinalis. The common Beech a native of 
England. (M. D.) On density of the annual rings of Timber. Common Plants. 
Reviews. Botanical Notes. Notices and Queries. Death of Dr. E. Steudel. 
Communications received. Descriptive British Botany. Eight pages. 
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zenship of Plants. Statistics of the Order Cruciferse. Result of a few hours 
botanizing about North Mines. Rare Plants in West Surrey. Isatis tinctoria. 
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Common Plants. (J. G. Baker) Periodic Phenomena of vegetation at Thirsk. 
Reviews (while thanking our friendly contemporaries for the notices which we receive 
under this title, we would suggest that our pages are not altogether deficient in Botani¬ 
cal information. No. X., which is noticed in this number of the Phytologist, contains, 
in addition to Mr. W. Andrew’s paper, one by Dr. Kinahan, on Botrychium 
lunaria, and one by Dr. Frazer, on Saprolegnia ferox). Botanical Notes. Notices 
and Queries. Communications received. Books received for Review. Descriptive 
British Botany. Eight pages. 
Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal ; exhibiting a View of the Progres¬ 
sive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and Arts. Edited by Thomas 
Anderson, M.D., Sir W., Jardine, Bart., and T. H. Balfour, M.D. No. 7. 
July, 1856 : to be continued quarterly. 8vo. Price 6s.; with eight Plates. 
(John Davy, M.D.) An account of some experiments on certain Sea-weeds of 
an edible kind. (Alexander Bryson) Expositions of some mechanical Inventions 
of Dr. Robert Hooke. (Hugh Macmillan) On the rare Lichens of Ben Lawers. 
(Daniel Wilson, LL.D.) Displacements and extinction among the Primeval Races 
of man. (H. F. Baxter) An Experimental Inquiry, undertaken with the view of 
ascertaining whether any signs of current electricity are manifested in plants during 
vegetation. (Robert Harkness) On the occurrence of Scalariform Tissue in the 
Devonian strata of the South of Ireland. (Lieutenant A. Agloun) Geology at the 
