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common to all these countries, was found here in many places. The
other branches of Cryptogamic botany I had no time to investigate,
but the Mosses and Jmujermannice were comparatively scarce. Lichens,
particularly the larger kinds, such as Pannelia and Sticta, were very
frequent on both rocks and trees on the higher grounds. Along the
coast, and washed ashore, were numerous kinds of Seaweed, but they
appeared to be jirincipally small fucoid forms, intermixed with a few
filamentous kinds.
To those acquainted with the botany of Australia and adjoining
islands it will be apparent, from the sketch here given, that the plants
at this island more nearly resemble those of Norfolk Island, from
which it is distant some 500 miles, than those of any other country.
The Leptospernium and Melaleuca are almost the only plants which link
its flora with that of Australia, all the other kinds being chiefly types
of genera found on Norfolk Island. This resemblance will be more
clearly indicated when, at some future time, I shall give a detailed
account of all the plants observed and collected during my three days'
sojourn upon this interesting little island.— Gardeuerfi' Chronicle.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
The Br'Ukh llubl ; an AUewpt to dlscrhn'mate the Species of Itnbus
known to inhabit the British Isles. By Professor Babington.
London: Van Voorst. 1869. 8vo, pp. 305.
Essai Mo7io[/raphifiiie stir les Rubas da Bassin de la Loire. Par L.
Gaston Genevier. Angers: Imprimerie Lachese. 1869. 8vo,
pp. 343.
The two last years have been fertile in Bramble literature ; for
besides the appearance in Germany of Kuntze's ' Reform Deutschcr
Erombecren,' both in England and France the tv/o botanists who have
devoted themselves to the monographic study of the Brambles of their
respective countries, have both published, in full detad, the result of
their labours.
It is now more than a quarter of a century since Professor Babington
first treated upon the British liiibi in the original edition of his
' Manual,' and twenty-three years since he elaborated them fully in his