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BOTANICAL NEWS. 247
to class it with W. Brasilienm, whilst Professor Grisebach (Fl. W.
Ind. Islands, London, 1864, p, 512) has described it as a distinct
species (omitted by our author), under the name of W. punctata. la
quoting the English habitat of W. arrhiza we note two misprints. It
should be Staines, Trimen, etc., p. 219, instead of Raines, Trimen, p.
21.
We should have been glad to see Latin generic and specific charac-
ters besides the German, and trust that, in any future monograph,
for the author, we are sure, will not drop the subject in its present
state,—he wUl give them to us. We are also sorry to find that he has
erred with Dr. Milde in his otherwise excellent monograph on Equise-
ttcm, in not giving us a complete index, so as to be able to find a
synonym instantly, instead of having to search through the whole
book for it.
The author fully discusses the geogi'aphical range of the different
species. About one half of the species are common to the tropical
and extratropical countries, the other half consists of species pecidiar
either to the tropics or extratropical parts. They are excluded from
the Polar regions.
— ;
Dr. Hegelmaier thanks those botanists who, during his investiga-
tions, have supplied him wath specimens, information, and suggestions
but now that he has shown what good use he has made of them, and
what numerous blanks still remain to be filled up before we can say
that our knowledge of this small, but interesting group of plants is
complete,—he will probably receive considerable additions ; and those
botanists who should wish to make communications to him will be
glad to know that any addressed to " Dr. Hegelmaier, Tiibingen," will
reach him.
BOTANICAL NEWS.
We rejoice to hear that Mr. Tliiselton Dyer is a candidate for Dr. Lee's
Eeadership in Anatomy, at Christ Churcli, Oxford, the duties of which are to
give lectures on Biological subjects.
We have received fuU and authentic particulars respecting the share which
Dr. Hooker is alleged to have had in preventing certain honourable distinctions
being conferred upon some of the Englishmen who visited the great Horticul-
tural Exhibition a*^ St. Petei'sburg.