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tion the writings of native botanists, since very little, if any, 

 work having special reference to the American flora is un- 

 dertaken in Europe. When we come to thallogens, however, 

 at least half, and perhaps more, of the descriptive work is 

 done in Europe. In the way of lichens we have to mention 

 a list of lichens of Southern Illinois, collected by Mr. J. Wolf, 

 and described by Mr. Henry Willey, the list including sixty- 

 one species. The same writer, in an article in the Torrey 

 Bulletin entitled North American Lichenography, completes 

 the bibliography of North American lichens, previously treat- 

 ed by him in a paper in the Proceedings of the Essex Insti- 

 tute. 



Algae. 



Dr. Wittrock, in the Botaniska JSfotiser, a Swedish jour- 

 nal, has an article on the American Species of (Edogonium 

 and Bidbochcete. Most of the species mentioned, however, 

 are from South America. At the end of the article is a crit- 

 ical note on certain species described in the "History of the 

 Fresh-water Algae of North America," by Professor H. C. 

 Wood, with whom Dr. Wittrock does not entirely agree, but 

 refers several of the species of Professor Wood to previously 

 described forms. The second fascicle of the "Algre Am. Bor. 

 Exsiccata?," by Farlow, Anderson, and Eaton, contains fifty 

 species, several of which are new. 



The articles on American fungi are, as usual, very numer- 

 ous, and scattered through several different journals, both 

 European and American. The thirtieth report of the New 

 York State Botanist, Mr. C. H. Peck, contains the description 

 of a large number of new fungi, and is illustrated by two 

 plates. At the end of the report, Mr. Peck gives his views 

 with regard to several species of JLenzites, which he does not 

 consider distinct from X. confragosa. A number of new spe- 

 cies, belonging principally to the genus ^Eeidium, collected 

 in Colorado by Mr. Brandegee, are described in the April 

 number of the Botanical Gazette, by Mr. Peck. The Torrey 

 Bulletin contains a note by Mr. J. B. Ellis on the re-discovery 

 of Spho&ria barbirostris, Duf., near Vineland, N. J. The sec- 

 ond volume of the Bussey Bulletin contains a list of the fun- 

 gi found in the vicinity of Boston, being a continuation of a 

 previous article. It is followed by critical notes of some 

 of the species, particularly those belonging to the Chytri- 



