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culosa en hiver et au printcmps. Bull. Soc. Botan. Tom. vii. pp. 389-391.

The floating hibernal buds of this plant were found to vege- tate, in cultivation, without first sinking to the bottom, as is believed usually to be the case in nature.

Scuultz, C. H. (Bipont.) — Ueber die Catanancheen. Bonplandia, 1860, pp. 367-71.

With description, analysis of species, history and distribution of the group. Piptocephalum, gen. nov. is described.

Sbemajtn", Berthold. — Synopsis Crescentiacearum : an Enumeration of all the Crescentiaceous Plants at present known. Linn. Trans, xxiii. pp. 1-22.

With amended character of Creseentiacea?, and diagnoses of the genera and twenty-six species composing the group. "Dr. Seemann adopts the Tribes Tanceciece {Calyx persistens, regularise 5-merus) and Crescentiece (Calyx deciduus, irregularis — spathaceus vel bipartitus). No new genera are founded. Schlegelia and Tripin- naria are suppressed, being identical with Tancecium and Colea respectively. Periblema, DC. is excluded from the Order. The Crescentiaceae chiefly prevail in the islands of East Africa, whence further additions are probably to be received. Two species occur in Asia, ten in America.

Sendtner, O. — Die Vegetations- Verhaltnisse des bayerischen Waldes nach den Grundsatzen der Pflanzengeographie geschildert. 8 plates, 8vo. Munich, 1860.

Sturm, J. W. and A. Schnitzleen-. — Verzeichniss der Phanerogamen und gefasskryptogamischen Pflanzen in der TJmgegend von Niirnberg und Erlangen. Ed. ii. Niirnberg, Schmid. 1860.

Tchihatcheff, P. De — Asie mineure. Description physique, sta- tistique et archeologique de cette conferee. 3e partie. Botanique. Atlas of 44 plates. Eoy. 8vo. Paris, 1860.

Thwaites, G. H. K. and J. D. Hooker. — Enumeratio Plantaruin ZeylanisB. Part 3, 1860.

Compositge (Elephantopus) to Labiates (Leucas). New genera described are Dasyaulus and DicJwpsis (Sapo- taceee), JDcedalacanthus, T. Anders, and Ptyssiglottis, T. Anders, (Acanthacese).

Timbal-Lagrave, E. — Essai monographique sur les especes, varietes et hybrides du genre, Mentha, L., qui sont cultivees ou qui crois- sent spontanement dans les Pyrenees centrales et dans la partie superieure du bassin sous-pyreneen"(Haut- Garonne). Bull. Soc. Botan. Tom. vii. pp. 231-6, 254-261, 328-334, 352-358).

Todaro, Agostino. — Nuovi Generi e nuove Specie di Piante colti- vate nel real Orto botanico di Palermo. Fasc. 2°. pp. 21-38. Palermo, 1860. 8vo.

. Bianccea, n. g. (Leguminosa?, sub-order, Casalpiniece), with new species of Duranta, Hermione, and Oxalis are described.

Trautvetter, E. E. von. — Enumeratio Plantaruin Songaricarum a