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 * BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 519 der europaischen Euphrasia- kxten,' — V. Schiifner, ' Bryologische Mittheilungen aus Mittelbohmen.' — L. Keller, Dianthus Fritschii (D. speciosiis X harhatus). — J. Kobinsolm, ' Ueber die Drehung von Staubgefassen in den zygomorphen Blliten einiger Pflanzengruppen und der biologische Bedeutung' (1 pl.J. — A. Hausgirg, * Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Phyllokarpie,!y^ £ii iaemilo^uA io gn^^iU r. .;, :.J J3iiii«'ii7 dRoV/" 7/9K ' MaUuV. i/?rfmBv8 ' ,ummlS. .v) ..A — ,,( dl^nd) m'ivrA- .ioti ^ . .^ 'v^. ^anri-iBdied Biioefljidol- BOOK-NOTES, NEW!^,^ ^ak^^^' ^no'JTi'iaJgeW .T The second part of vol. vi. oithe Flora Capensis has been issuedi)! Mr. Baker concludes the Amaryllidea, and gets through a consider- able part of the Liliacece. Dr. Dyer contributes a preface, although he says the part '* needs but a few words of introduction " : does it need any ? If each part is to have a preface, the result wall be novel and curious when the volume is bound up. The introduction seems to have been hurriedly written — e. g. "■ The advantage of consulting living specimens is of peculiar advantage," ^sQ^^ytivnUmvi We have received a prospectus of "The British M;^febI6^ical Society," a new organization, the objects of which are stated (in a sentence of portentous length) to be " the study of Mycology in all its branches, systematic, morphological and pathological, the publi- cation of annual reports recording all recent discoveries in any branch of mycology, and more especially giving a brief synopsis of the work of European Mycologists and the recent additions to the British Fungus Flora, and an annual week's meeting or foray to be held at some place previously determined at the annual meeting, preference being given to those places where a local society would make arrangements for excursions and provide a meeting room for the arrangement of species collected, members of such local society being allowed to attend the excursions and meetings of the British Mycological Society and a list of species found furnished to such society, that, during such week's foray, the President shall deliver his annual address and papers be read, and the species collected systematically arranged and exhibited." The annual subscription is to be 5s. Mr. George Massee is to be the first President, and Mr. Oarleton Eea, of 34, Foregate Street, Worcester, the Hon. Secretary. Mr. Schlechter writes from Cape Town that his last trip to Namaqualand has yielded above 1^00 numbers, among which are many interesting novelties, including five new genera and about a hundred and fifty new species. The Linnean Society is making up for the delay in its publican tions which has lately occasioned some grumbling. A part of vol. xxxi. of the Journal (dated Oct. 31) containing "Eedescrip tion of Berkeley's types of Fungi " by Mr. Massee, and a paper on the " Relation of the Growth of Foliage-leaves and the Chlorophyll Function," by Prof. MacDougal, was followed on Nov. 2 by the whole of vol. xxxii. containing 570 pages and seven plates. This contains several important memoirs. Mr. F. N. Williams occupies