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114 114 BIBLIOGRAPHY descriptions of 24 novelties, one of which is regarded by M. Peyritsch as the type of a new Passifloreous genus (Basananthe, Peyr.), related to Paschanthus, Burch., and Acharia, Thg. Weddell. — Chloris Andina. Essai d'une Flore de la Begion Alpine des Cordilleres de l'Amerique dn Sud. Vol. ii., pts. 12 and 13, with ten plates; completing Scrophulariaceae, Gesneriacese, Bignonia- ceae, Labiatae, Lenttibulariacea3, Plantaginaceae, MyrsinaceaB, Erica- cea3, Bhamnaceae. Weiss, W. — Beobachtungen iiber den Pilanzenschlaf mit Paicksicht auf die letze Sonnenfinsterniss. — Bot. Zeit. pp. 321-4. The fol- lowing species were carefully observed for some days prior to the eclipse, and the hours noted at which their c< sleep" commenced, and reached its maximum: — Mimosa pudica and scnsitiva, Gram- manthes gentianoides, Arnicia zygomeris, Cccsalpinia s^p'aria, Acacia juliorissin, and Porliera hygrometrica. The author de- tails the result of observations during the eclipse on Arnicia and Grammanthes, which he selected as showing the greatest susceptibi- lity to light. The leaves of the Arnicia under glass with the com- mencement of the eclipse began to droop, and at the maximum of darkness were half reilexed: at the end of the eclipse, ihey were again normally expanded. The flowers of Grammanthes also, under glass, which were expanded at the beginning of the eclipse, were all closed about the middle. At the end, most of the flowers at- tempted to open, though with but partial success. The author's numerous thennometrical observations lead him to refer the sleep- phenomena of sensitive plants to the direct thermal influence of the solar rays. Wexdland, H Bemerkungen iiber einige Palmengattungen Ameri- kas. Bonplandia viii., Jahrg., pp. 100-106, 115-119. The new genera proposed are Iriartella, founded on Iriartea setigera of Mar- tius ; Catohlastus, on two lew Grenada species, also previously re- ferred to Iriartea; and' Bictocary um, based on specimens of fruit only, collected by Wagner in N. Grenada. Willkomm, M. — Bemerkungen iiber kritische Pnanzen der Mediterran- flora. Bot. Zeit. 1860. pp. 129-32. The author establishes a new edition of his genus Costia upon three species referred to Iris, I scorpioides, Besf., I. pcrsica, L., 8f I caucausica, M. B. Woeonin, M. — Ueber den Bau des Stammes von Calycanthus. Bot. Zeit. 1860. pp. 177-82. With a plate. Referring to the oc- currence of woody bundles (four in number), with vessels in the cortical region, and tlieir relation to the nodes, leaves, &c. Wyjdler, H. — Kleinere Beitrage zur Kenntniss einheimischer Ge- wachse. Flora. 1860. pp. 353-366; 371-400; 419-432; 435- 445; 457-461; 471-480; 490-510; 513-520; 532-544. In continuation of previously published communications relating chiefly to phyllotaxis, sprout formation and axial relations, &c. The following orders are discussed: — Cucurbitaceae, Portulacese, Paronychie, Crassulaeeae, Grossularieae, Saxifrageae, Umbelliferae,