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les Cryptogames des Ecorces Exotiques Officinales and Supple- 

 ment. It is of special value because the spore characters were in 

 his time little known, and Dr. Miiller has studied the original 

 specimens of Fee, and of Acharius, Fries and others, 



Henry Willey. 



Lilium Grayi, Watson. — (Garden and Forest, i., p. 19, fig- 4O 



LoganiacecB — The Natural Order of, — R. G. Eccles, M. D. (Pharm. 



Record, viii, pp. 41-44.) 

 This is an interesting review of this important order and its 

 alUes from a medical standpoint, with much that is readable in 

 geographical distribution and descriptive pharmacy. 



Micrasterias Americana, Ralfs, audits Varieties, — W. M. Maskell. 



(Journ, Roy, Micros. Soc, 1888, pp. 7-10; plate II.) 



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Musci Cleistocarpici Novi. — Carolo Miiller. (Flora, Ixxi,, pp- 



This includes 26 species of Acaulon^ Phascum, Archidium, 

 Astomiim, Bruchia, Ephemerum and Lorentziella, of which ten are 

 South American from Paraguay, Montevideo and Brazil. 



Outlines of Lessons in Botany — Parts i and 2. — Jane H. Newell. 



(Pamphlets, Svo, pp. 45. Salem, Mass., 1887.) 

 These are intended as aids to teachers and mothers studying 

 with their children, and as elementary guides will be found most 

 practical and clear. The series is to consist of six, by which a 

 practical acquaintance will be made with: I — plants and their 

 uses; 2 — seedlings; 3 — roots;- 4 — buds and branches; 5 — stems; 

 6 — leaves. They are intended to be used in connection with 

 Gray's First Lessons or How Plants Grow, and are planned to 

 cover the winter season, so that the pupils maybe ready to study 

 the flowers when they appear. We heartily commend the plan 

 and effective methods of illustration. 

 Parmelia perlata et quelques Especes affines. — W. Nylander. 



(Journ. de Bot, 11., 33-34-) 

 Phacelia heterosperma, n. sp.— S. B. Parish. (Bot. Gazette, xiii-, 



P- 370 



Pi7ius insigni's, Dougl (Gartenflora, xxxvi, pp. 120- 122 ; fig. 11 ) 

 Pogogyne nuditiscula, Gray, (Gartenflora, xxxvi., p. 114; *• 



1242.) 



