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HANDBOOK OF THE FLORA OF EXTRA-TROPIC.\L SOUTH AUSTllALIA. 285
46 Commelinacefe and 1
British Sphagnum from Dr. Braithwaite ;
FUujcUaria IVom C. B. Clarke, Esq., F.R.S. ; 13 Orchids iVom Miss
Woohvard ; 41 Orchids from F. W. Moore, Esq. ; 40 Orchids from
H. Veitch, Esq. ; 2 Nepmthes from H. Veitch, Esq. ; 99 Algae and
129 Lichens from John Dillwyn Llewelyn, Esq. ; 177 preparations
of cellular plants ; section of stem of Dracoplujllum, from New
Zealand, from J. D. Enys, Esq. ; seeds of Sophora speeiosa from E.
M. Holmes, Esq. ; and specimens of plants from Kahun, Middle
Egypt, from tomb, about 2600 b.c, found by Mr. Flinders Petrie,
from H. M. Kennard, Esq.
The following collections have been acquired by purchase :
100 plants from Stanley Falls, Congo, from F. Hens ; 339 plants
from Natal; a small collection of plants from Kina Balu, collected
by J. Whitehead; 100 Freshwater Algas, of France, from Mougeot,
&c. ; 150 Freshwater Alga; from Wittrock and Nordstcdt ; 50
Italian Algre from Be Toni and Levi ; 25 parasitic Fungi from
Briosi and Cavara ; 600 Fungi from Sydow ; 390 Portuguese
plants from the Eev. K. P. Murray ; 40 species of Danish Eubi ;
2928 plants from Greece, from Haussknecht ; 200 specimens of
Schultz's Herbarium Normale ; 223 ^gean plants from Heldreich ;
100 plants from Greece, from Heldreich ; 208 Mexican plants,
collected by Schumann ; 850 American plants, collected by Pringle ;
50 American Algfe from Farlow ; 25 British Algre from Holmes ;
114 slides of British Alga3 from Buffham ; 100 specimens of woodsections
by Nordlinger ; 63 sections of woods ; and 121 preparations
of Fossil plants from Sir Joseph Hooker ; a collection of
Tertiary plants specially prepared by Baron Ettiugshausen for
comparison with recent plants.
By exchange the following collections have been acquired .—
series of AlgfB from the Baltic, collected by Professor Beinke, of
Kiel, many of which are type specimens ; 72 species of European
cellular plants from E. M. Holmes ; and specimens of Prosopanche
Biirmeisteri, new species of Bnujmannsia, Rajlesia, and CijiiwpoUa,
specimens of Phijtocrene, C'eratozamiu, and PerUlenniiuii Pini, from
Count Solms Laubach.
NOTICES OF BOOKS.
A llandhonk of the Flam of Krtra -tropical South Austnilia. By
Ralph Tate, F.L.S. Adelaide : published by the Education
Department. 1890. 8vo, pp. vi. 303.
The true test of the value of such a volume as this is, of course,
its practical working in the field ; and this, for obvious reasons, we
are unable to apply. But so far as we can judge. Prof. Tate has
succeeded in pi'odncing, in small compass and in pocketable form,
a little Maiuial wliich will be to the South Australian botanist
what 'Babington' has been to many generations of those at home;
while the type and arrangement of the volume leave nothing to be
desired.