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 224 B(/i'ANICAL NEWS.

Pr. Sremann lias ap^ain left Euglaiul for Nicaragua.

The volume for 187U of the " Transactions of the Woolhope Naturaliste' Field Club," just issued, fully sustains the high character of its prede- cessors. As our readers are aware, the strong botanical point of the Club is Fungology, and this volume contains a paper on the larger Fungi of trees, by W. G. Smith, giving separate lists of species for different trees and shrubs, an account of Scleroderma Geasier, by Mr. Broome (which has already appeared in our pages), and notes on fairy rings, by Mr. Buck- man. Dr. Bull also continues his " Illustrations of the Edible Fungi of Hereford," and gives coloured drawings of Boletus ediilis, Ilygro'phorus virgineiis. and H. prnleims and Lycoperdum glganienm ; and Mr. Eenny contributes a translation of E. Fries' ' Historiola Studii mei Mycologici,' illustrated by a photograph of the Swedish fungologist. The other botanical papers are : — notes on the growth of Mistletoe, by the Rev. K. Blight, Avith somewhat rough but apparently truthful illustrations ; on the more rare plants of the Longmynd Hills, Shropshire, by Dr. G. H. Grif- fiths ; on some Algae only apparent in times of drought, by Mr. Edwin Lees ; and also many notices of remarkable trees (illustrated by photo- graphs), besides records of localities of rare species scattered through the volume. The botany is but a portion of the book, which is most credit- able to the club, and acceptable to working naturalists.

We regret to have to announce the death of Carl Theodore Hartweg, Director of the Grand Ducal Gardens of Swetzingen, in Baden, and well known in England as Collector of the Royal Horticultural Society, in Mexico and other American republics. Born on the 18th of June, 1812, at Carlsruhe, he died on the 3rd of February, 1 87 1, at Swetzingen, leaving several sons. Mr. Bentham's excellent ' Plantse Hartwegianse,' containing a description of the many new- plants discovered by Hartweg, as well as Dr. Lindley's publications of Hartwegian novelties in the Botanical Re- gister and the ' Gardeners' Chronicle,' will keep the memory of the de- parted alive wherever botany is cultivated.

A very useful enumeration of all the Cryptogams found in Venetia has been published in the Transactions of the Vienna Zoologico-botanical Society, and also issued in a separate form ; the author is Count Hohenbühel-Heufler. The catalogue enumerates 53 species of Filices, etc., 264 Musci, 34 Hepaticæ, 503 Lichenes, 245 Fungi, 19 Characeæ, and 633 Algæ, with references to descriptions and a list of localities. The history of the knowledge of and additions to the Cryptogamic botany of the district is also carefully traced from Calceolarius in 1566 to the present time.

Professor J. E. Zetterstedt, of Jönköping, Sweden, a well-known botanist, is desirous of disposing of his duplicate specimens of Scandinavian plants — Phsenogams, Mosses, and Hepaticte. For particulars and terms apply to Dr. Stirton, 15, Newton Street, Glasgow.

Mr. Bentham's address to the members of the Linnean Society, read at the anniversary meeting on May 24th, has been printed in 'Nature,' and should be read by all botanists. In many respects it may be con- sidered as the most valuable of the excellent series of addresses which have been given year after year to the Society by its President.

Communications have been received from:—J. Sadler, VV. Carruthers, G. C. Churchill, W. G. Smith, F. Currey, J. Miers, Mrs. E. C. White, T. R. A. Briggs, A. Irvine, J. F. Duthie.'j. C. Melvill, Dr. H. F. Hanee, Rev. J. E. Leefe, A. G. More, Hon. J. L. Warren, etc.

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