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Species occurring in the North of Italy, but absent from South Tyrol, are also described in Appendices.

Brachy aster is substituted for the generic name Bellidiastrum.

Anderson, Thomas.— Florula Adenensis. A systematic Account, with Descriptions, of the Flowering Plants hitherto found at Aden. Linn. Proc. v. (Suppl.) pp. 71. With 6 plates.

The descriptive portion of this paper is preceded by a short essay on the physical features and climate of Aden; some of the peculiarities of its flora, its general relations, and the geogra- phical distribution of the species. The total number of natural orders found at Aden is 42 ; of genera, 80 ; species, 95. The proportion of species to natural orders, 2 29:1. But eleven of the 95 species are monocotyledons, and of these nine are grasses. Fourteen species are endemic. Dr. Anderson unites all the de- scribed species of Fagonia with the Linnaean P. cretica.

Ardoino, Honore.— De l'Annexion du Comte de Nice a la Prance au point de vue de la Botanique. Bull. Soc. Botan. Tom. vii. pp. 317-320.

With a list of 40 species found in Nice and Monacho, and not occurring in the ' Flore de Prance' of Grrenier and Grodron.

Baillon, H. — Etudes sur la Structure et le developpement de la fleur des Philesiacees. Eec. d'Obs. Bot. 1860, Oct. pp. 41-49.

Eemarques sur l'Androcee des Asarum et sur les appendices

qui tiennent la place des petales dans VA. europaeum, pp. 55-57.

Ball, John. — Notes sur quelques Cruciferes. Bull. Soc. Botan. Tom. vii. pp. 227-231, 247-252.

- Mr. Ball observes that the more the genera of Cruciferse are studied with ample suites of specimens, the less possible does it become to base their classification upon positive characters.

Apropos of this paper M. Cosson observed that characters derived from the relative position of the radicle and the cotyledons, and the form of the latter, are less constant than has been gene- rally conceived.

Beddome, E. H. — Eeport on the Vegetable Products of the Pulney Hills. (Extract from Madras Journal), pp. 40.

Bentham, G-eorge. — Notes on Ternstroemiaceae. Linn. Proc. v. pp. 53-65.

Consisting, in part, of critical observations on the " Memoire sur les Ternstroamiacees et les Camelliacees" published by M. Choisy in 1855 ; in part, the result of a recent revision of the genera for the " Flora of Hong-Kong," and the " Genera Plan- tarum," in course of preparation by the author in conjunction with Dr. Hooker.

The separation of TernstrcEmiacese from Camelliaceae, as pro- posed by Choisy, Mr. Bentham objects to as unnatural and not sustained by any positive character.

Sauranja with the allied genera Actinidla (referred by Dr. Lindley to Dilleniaceae) and Stachyurus, are appended to Tern-