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since the author has not only published the records of his own extensive 

 collection, but he has included those of the public Herbaria and many 

 private collections. 



Marine Algae of the Faeroes.* — F. Borgesen publishes a complete 

 list of the marine algae of these islands founded on his own and other 

 collections. He has himself examined the marine flora of the Faeroes 

 at various seasons of the year, and his own observations, taken together 

 with his examination of various collections, enable him to form a definite 

 idea of the development of the algae from April to December. To the 

 record of each alga there are appended critical notes with figures in the 

 text, and in many cases details are very fully discussed and interesting 

 observations recorded. 



Two new species of Myrionema are described and one each for the 

 genera Plmostroma, Laminaria, Dermocarpa, and Hyella. An index, 

 which includes the more important synonyms, especially those of Lyng- 

 bye, and a coloured map of the Faeroes taken from the Danish Govern- 

 ment Survey, complete this volume. 



Marine Algae from Dago.f — Nils Svedelius enumerates eleven 

 species of marine algae and five species of Char a, collected by 0. A. 

 F. Lonnbohm, from this island in the Baltic. A few critical remarks 

 follow on the forms of Fucus vesiculosus which occur there. The 

 author is of opinion that the angustifolia and subecostata series is dis- 

 tributed to the eastward, and the filiformis series to the westward of 

 the Baltic shores. 



Australasian Sphacelarieae.J — Camille Sauvageau publishes short 

 notes on the morphology and distribution of species of Sphacelaria from 

 Australasian seas. Many of the specimens examined by him belong to 

 the Harvey Herbarium in Trinity College, Dublin. The same author 

 has dealt fully with this group in the Journal cle Botanique, where the 

 new species are described. Of the thirty-six species there cited, thirteen 

 are peculiar to Australasia, and five are common to this and other regions. 

 The author finds that an examination of specimens of Australasian 

 Fucaceas is productive of good material of Sphacelaria, and he believes 

 that a careful search for these plants round the shores of Australia, New 

 Zealand, &c. would have rich results ; since many of the specimens 

 known hitherto have only been collected by chance, as growing on other 

 and larger algae. 



Algae of the Galapagos Islands.§ — W. G. Farlow publishes a list 

 of 45 species of algae from these islands, 43 being marine. One new 

 species of Glossophora and one of Dasya are described, and a new genus 

 is founded provisionally, Herpophyllon, for the reception of an alga, 

 H. coalescens, which has cruciately divided tetraspores in wart-like sori ; 

 the cytocarps are still unknown. The thallus is prostrate and mem- 

 branaceous, suggesting Peyssonelia rugosa at first sight. 



* « Botany of the Faeroes,' part ii., Copenhagen, 1902, pp. 339-532 (figs. 51-110 

 and map). t Bot. Notiser, v. (1902) pp. 225-8. 



X Notes from Bot. School. Trin. Coll. Dublin, v. (1902) pp. 196-200. 

 § Proc. Amer. Acad., xxxviii. (1902) pp. 89-99. 



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