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in New Jersey, and I can only look upon the lichen as a depau- 
perate state of the very common G. scripta. Pyrenula aspistea, 
Ach., is given on the authority of Nylander, although in his 
Expositio Pyrenocarpeorum he had considered it as hardly 
differing from P. nitida, var. nitidella, Tck. But.in his Lichens 
of New Grenada he considered it as a subspecies of P. nitida, 
differing only in its smaller spores. No. 12, given as Umbilicaria 
Pennsylvanica, from Newfoundland, is, as Nylander has pointed 
out in Flora, U. pustulata. 
At least three sets of this collection, of which we suppose 
that only from twenty-five to thirty have been issued, have been 
sent to this country, one of them to the Smithsonian Institution, 
while the others are in private hands. H. WILLEY. 
Annals of Botany. Edited by Isaac Bayley Balfour, Professor 
of Botany in the University of Oxford, Sydney Howard Vines, 
Reader in Botany in the University of Cambridge, and William 
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a volume, the subscription for which will be a guinea, subscribers 
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marked 8s. 6 d., and contains four original articles, occupying 
seventy pages, accompanied by six excellent plates. 
No.1, By H. Marshall Ward and John Dunlop. On some 
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structure of the mucilage-secreting cells of Blechnum serge 
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