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THE Director of the Imperial Botanic Garden describes a number of novelties cultivated under his own eye. One of the most striking is a new Crinum, (C. Schmidti) from Port Natal, which scarcely seems separable by description from C. latifolium, L. The bulk of the pages, however, is filled with an enumeration of the glumaceous plants at present known from Central Asia, in the study of which Aitchison's Afghan collections have not been overlooked. 195 species of Gramineas are enumerated, of which 79 are Asiatic, or at any rate are not known from Europe; 75 species are middle European or Mediterranean; and 37 are common to middle Europe, middle Asia, and North America.
Descriptiones Plantarum Novarum et minus Cognitarum.
Fasc. viii. Auctore Dr. Regel. Pp. 150. (St. Petersburg, 1881.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 26, 319 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026319b0
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