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than those of other mosses, regardless of the facts that 4. Havanica 
has entire leaves, and that there are plenty of instances among 
mosses and hepaticz where the marginal cells and even those of 
other parts of the leaf are produced into cilia. Indeed, Professor 
Goebel seems here to have undertaken a gratuitous labor, for all 
are agreed that the plant body in mosses and foliose hepaticz 
grows from the protonema. The peculiarity of Buxrbaumia in the 
respect seems to be that it does not grow so large. 
The strangest thing about Sw«daumia is, perhaps, its physio- 
logical arrangement. The sexual generation, instead of leading 
the life of a parasite upon its parent, as in other mosses, is richly 
provided with chlorophyll, and apparently needs the parent only 
as a means of attachment to the substratum. O. F. Cook. 
Bulletin de l Herbier Boisster. Sous la Direction de Eugéne 
Autran, Conservateur de 1’ Herbier. (Tome i. No. 1, 8vo. pp. 
32, avec deux planches, Geneve, 1893). 
We chronicle with much pleasure and interest, the appearance 
of another new journal, published under the auspices of the great 
herbarium of M. Boissier at Chambesy, near Geneva. It is planned 
to issue the Bulletin as material becomes available, and to produce 
a volume of 400 pages each year. The first number contains two 
papers: (I) Les Genres Achatocarpus, Triana et Bosia, L., et leur 
Place dans le Systeme Naturel by Dr. Hans Schinz and M. Au- 
tran, illustrated by two plates. Achatocarpus is a South Ameri- 
can genus placed by Triana in relationship with Azvina in the 
Phytolacacezee, where MM. Schinz and Autran conclude it be- 
longs. It isreferred by Bentham and Hooker to the Amaran- 
taceze and by Baillon to the caries sees Four new species 
are described, all Paraguayan. 
The second paper is by Dr. Geo. E. Post, and is Part V. of 
his descriptions of and notes on Syrian plants. Nik Ss 
Proceedings of the Club. 
Turspay, FEBRUARY 14TH, 1893. 
The President in the chair and thirty-five persons present. 
Mrs. L. Briick, of Hoboken, N. J., and Mr. Geo. M. Beringer, _ 
of Camden, N. J., were elected active members. 2 
