46 BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club (Nov. BO).— E. G. Britton, 'Contributions to American Bryology' (2 pi.)- — A. M. Vail, Rhynchosia Michauxii & R. Torreyi, spp.nn. — G. V. Nash, 'American Grasses.' — G. Macloskie, ' Vegetable Spiralism.' Bot. Zeitung (Dec. 16). — B. Wagner, ' Die Morphologie des Limnanthemtim nymphcBoides.* Gardeners' Chronicle (Nov. 30). — NepJirodiiim dejectum Jenm., gp.n. — (Dec. 14). Luddemania triloba Rolfe, sp. n. (fig. 118). — Cephalotaxus drupacea (fig. 120). — (Dec. 28). Synandrospadix vermitoocicus (fig. 131). Journal de Botanique (Dec. 1). — F. Hy, Medicacfo media. — E. Malinvaud, Lysimachia thyrsiflora dans la Haute-Loire. — L. G. de Lamarliere, ' Mnscin^es du Nord de la France.' — (Dec. 1, 16).- A. Franchet, Primiilacees de la Chine occidentale. — P. Van Tieghem,
- Acrogamie et basigamie.' — L. Morot, Doassansia intermedia, sp. n.
Journ. Linn. Soc. (Botany, xxxi, No. 214 : Dec. 17). — P. Groom,
- Monocotyledonous Saprophytes' (3 pL). — I. H. Burkill, 'Variations
in number of Stamens and Pistils.' — J. G. Boerlage, Chimonanthiis Ghaeri. Malpighia (fasc. xi-xii). — P. A. Saccardo & 0. Mattirolo, Oedo- rnyces leproides (1 pi.). — L. Buscalioni, ' Studii sui cristalli di ossalato di calcio.' — A. Fiori, 'Paleotulipe, Neotulipe, a Mellotulipe.* Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital. (Nov. 1). — G. Sandri & P. Fantozzi, ' Contribuzione alia Flora di Valdinievole.' — E. Baroni, ' Gigli nuovi della Cina.' — M. A. Mirabella, ' I nettari extranuziali nelle varie specie di Ficus * (1 pi.). - Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschrift (Dec). — R. Schlechter, ' AsclepiadacesB Kuntzeanae' (Dactylostelma, gen. nov.). — W. Schmidle, ' Zur alpinen Algenflora ' (cont.). — E. v. Halacsy, 'Zur Flora von Griechenland.' — J. Freyn, ' Plantse Karoanse Dahuricae.' — J. v. Sterneck, Alectorolophus. — C. Warnstorf, ' Bidens connatus ein neuer Biirger der europaischen Flora.' BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, dc. We are glad to learn that the Eev. W. R. Linton has in hand a Flora of Derbyshire, which he hopes to publish in the course of a year or two. The Flora will comprise the Phanerogams and Cryptogams, Musci, Hepatics, and Fungi. The county will be divided into seven areas, mainly according to the geological nature of its surface. Mr. Linton will be much obliged for any communi- cations on the botany of the county, specially as regards earliest records and first discoveries of plants. These should be addressed to him at Shirley Vicarage, Derby. An Appendix to the Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, issued toyards the end of November, contains a list of " New Q^vd^x^
