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He also contributes two other papers one on the American 

 junipers, and the other on the flowering of Agave Shawn, 

 illustrated by a plate. The second fasciculus of the "Wild 

 Flowers of America," plates by Air. Isaac Sprague and text 

 by Professor G. L. Goodale, has appeared, and includes four 

 species Iris versicolor, L. ; Mudbeckia columnar is, Pursh ; 

 Viola sagittata, Aiton ; and Steironema lanceolatum, Gray. 

 The drawing of the first-named species is one of the finest 

 ever made in this country. There is announced as about to 

 appear a series of plates of native flowers, with text by 

 Professor Thomas Meehan, of Philadelphia, the lithographs 

 being furnished by Prang, of Boston. 



In the department of cryptogams we must note an elaborate 

 paper, by Professor Edward Tuckerman, on North American 

 and other lichens, published in the Proceedings of the Amer- 

 ican Academy. The species described, besides those found 

 in the United States, were collected by Dr. Hill during the 

 Hassle r Expedition. In an appendix are given the species 

 collected by Dr. J. H. Kidder at Kerguelen Land during 

 the Transit of Venus Expedition. New species of American 

 fungi have been described in various publications. We may 

 particularize, in this connection, articles by J. B. Ellis and 

 Baron von Thiimen in the Bulletin of the Torre y Club ; by W. 

 R. Gerard in the Proceedings of the Poughkeepsie Society; 

 by M. C. Cooke in the Bulletin of the Buffalo Society, where 

 a synopsis of American species of Ilypliomycetes is given; 

 also articles by the same botanist in Grevillea; and, lastly, 

 by C. PI. Peck in the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth re- 

 ports of the Botanist of the State of New York for the years 

 1873 and 1874 respectively. The two last-named reports 

 are illustrated by plates of fungi, and not only contain ac- 

 counts of the fungi and other cryptogams of New York 

 State, but also notes of newly discovered "localities of flow- 

 ering plants. Californian species of fungi, principally from 

 the collections of Dr. Harkness, have been given by Plow- 

 right, Philips, and Rev. Mr. Yize in Grevillea. Additions 

 have been made to the marine flora of the United States in 

 a paper by W. G. Farlow published in the Proceedings of 

 the American Academy of Boston. In the same Proceed- 

 ings Professor D. C. Eaton describes a new species of Nito- 

 phyllum. There has also appeared the first fasciculus of a set 



