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NOTICES OF SERTALS. 
F.R.S., Vice-president of the Linnean Society, Knight of the Danish Order of 
Danebrog—a name that will be loved and honoured as long as botanical science shall 
continue to be cultivated. His persevering and arduous services and literary labours 
in unhealthy tropical climes gradually undermined his constitution and induced 
organic disease, which, after two or three months’ confinement, terminated fatally, 
at his house in Upper Gower-street, on the 28th April, 1854, in the 68th year of his 
age. (Mr. Swainson) Botanical Report on the Eucalypti and Cassuarinae of Victoria, 
New Holland ; Botanical News from Italy ; Podostemon Salt. Notices of Books. 
No. 66, July:—(G. Bentham) Notes on North Brazilian Gentianeae, from the 
collections of Mr. Spruce and Sir R. Schomburgk; (M. J. Berkeley) Decades of 
Fungi—Decades 47, 48—Indian Fungi (continued from p. 174), with lithographs 
of Lentinus inquinans, Berk., and Poluporus spuamaeformis, Berk.; (J. S. Roe) 
Report of a Journey of Discovery into the Interior of Western Australia, between 
8th September, 1848, and 3rd February, 1849 (continued from p. 180); (W. H. 
Harvey) Extract of a letter from—dated Cape Riche, West Australia, March 12, 
1854—in which Professor Harvey states, that owing to want of storms to drive the 
algae on shore, he has not found the coast as productive as he would have wished, 
there being very little ground laid bare at low water-mark for examination. The 
Fucoids along the shore do not seem to reach their proper development—at least, 
none are yet to be found in fruit, and very few are properly provided with air- 
vessels. My dried specimens of algae, so far, are about 5,000, but only about 120 
species among them. I have got a Martensia (or Hemitrema), but very few speci¬ 
mens of it. It was a deepwater waif. Botanical Information—Letter from M. 
Kralik—now collecting in Tunis—on his journey in that Regency. Notices of 
Books—Goodenovicae; (W. J. H. Hooker) leones Plantarum. 8vo. 10 vols. 
1,000 plates. 
No. 67, August:—(Rev. M. J. Berkeley) Decades of Fungi—Decades 49, 50— 
Indian Fungi (continued from p. 212), with lithographs of Lentinus praerigidus, 
Berk.; Cordyceps racemosa, Berk.; C. falcata, Berk. ; and Sclerographium ater- 
rimum, Berk; (G. Bentham) On the Tree supplying the Sabicu Wood of Cuba. 
This tree, the Lysiloma Sabicu, appears, as far as is hitherto known, to be strictly 
confined to the Island of Cuba. Its timber is extensively imported into this country 
tor its excessive hardness, which renders it so valuable for ship-building and other 
purposes. (C. R. Nesbitt) Vegetable Fibres of the Bahamas ; (J. S. Roe) Report 
of a Journey of Discovery into the interior of Western Australia (continued from 
p. 217). Botanical Information—Oxford Herbarium. An idea of the extent of the 
whole collection of dried plants preserved, may be given from the total number of 
specimens—viz., 43,812. The Herbarium also contains the valuable collection of 
drawings of the animals of the Levant, executed by the celebrated F. Bauer. 
They consist of 11 drawings of quadrupeds, 44 of reptiles, 122 of fishes, and 115 of 
birds; also one of the only two copies struck off from the plates engraved, by order 
of the Emperor, from the MS. of Dioscorides, with illuminated figures, preserved 
in the imperial library, at Vienna, presented by Dr. Sibthorp, and was given him by 
the elder Jacquin, when he passed through Vienna, on his way to Greece, in 1786. 
Collections of dried plants, on sale with R. F. Holienacker, at Esslingen, near 
Stutgart. Notices of Books—Sikkim—Himalayan Plants ; Bryologia Britannica ; 
Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum ; Monograph of Tropical American Oaks. 
No. 68, September :—-(Dr. W. H. de Vriese) Remarks on Doornia and Rykia, 
