72 NOTICES OF SERIALS. 



On the species of Gagea indigenous in France — p. 303-366. (Same) On the 

 right of priority in respect to the varieties of several species of plants — p. 517. 

 (Hochstetter) Critical remarks on some exotic genera of grasses, and the species 

 referred to them ; continued from the volume for 1855— p. 17-29, 81-95, 97- 

 112, 177-192. The subjects are the following genera — Trisetaria Forsk., com- 

 pared with Deyeuxia Beauv., and Anomalotis Steud. ; Crinipes Hochst., its 

 nearest affinities Eetrosia R. Br. and Tripogon Roth ; Harpachne H., nearest 

 affinity to Uninla L. ; Heteranthelium H., related to Secale L. ; Amblyachyrum H. ; 

 Heteropogon Pers. ; EUonurus Willd. ; Isrhcemum L., its relation to Meoschium 

 Beauv., Spodiopogon Trin., Sehima Forsk., Hologamium Nees., Arthraxon 

 Beauv., Bathratherum Nees, Pleuroptilis Trin., Lucaea Kunth, Colladoa Cav., 

 Alectoridia Rich., and the frequent confusion among these genera ; Dimeria 

 R. Br., to which Haplachne Fresh, and Psilostachys Steud. are reducible. 

 (Boeckeler) New American Caricesj C- tenuispica, triangularis, leucocarpa; 

 with notes on some other species — p. 225-231. (Same) Critical remarks on 

 some Carices described as new species in Steudel's Synopsis of Cyperaceae — 

 —p. 321-329. G. brazasana, St., has been previously described as cherokeensis 

 Schweinitz ; C. aureolensis St., a form of C. stenolepis Torr. ; C. microsperma 

 St., is Jlaccosperma Dewey ; C. gracilescens St., oligocarpa Schkuhr ; C. sub- 

 compresaa St., meliacea Miihl. ; C. amphibola St., a marked form of C. anceps ; 

 C. rufidula and macrokolea St., form one species; C. subbiflora St., not distinct 

 from lucorum Willd. ; C. watsoniana and kelvingtoniana St., both belong to C. 

 acuta Muhlenberg. (Arnold) List of the Musci Frondosi of the Franconian 

 Jura — p. 241-250. (Massalongo) On some Collemacese of the tribe Ompha- 

 larieae — p. 209-215. New genera, Corinophoros, Arnoldia. (Same) On 

 Thamnolia, a genus of Lichenes imperfectly characterized — p. 231-235. (Same) 

 New genera of Lichenes— p. 281-286, 289-292. Spolverinia, Tomassellia, 

 Mycetodium, Sarcosagium, Maronea, are the new generic names. (Nylander) 

 Critical remarks on the Natural History of Lichenes — p. 577-579. (Fries) 

 Attempt to determine some of the species of Schaeffer's u Icones Fungorum 

 Bavariae et Palatinatus" — p. 369-373. (Hasskarl) Remarks on some plants in 

 the Botanic garden of Buitenzorg and the branch of it at Tijpanuar in Java — 

 p. 513-516. (Steudel) Contributions to the Flora of Chili and Peru, princi- 

 pally from the collections of Bertero and Lechler — p. 401-412, 417-426,436- 

 444. (Landerer) On the Medicinal plants of Greece — p. 305-317. (Same) 

 Botanical observations in Greece— p. 449-458, 647-652, 753-756. (Wolfner) 

 Critical remarks on various new, rare, or doubtful plants of the Bohemian 

 Flora — p. 337-394. (Kirschleger) On floating plants, and other notes on 

 the Rhenish Flora — p. 529-536. (Bamberger) Remarks on some Swiss 

 plants introduced into his List for this year — p. 737-739. (Vulpius) The 

 Latreieu Alp in the Canton of Bern — p. 545-550. (Same) Excursion to 

 the Gasterenthal in the Canton of Bern — p. 551-559. (Same) Excursions in the 

 summer of 1856 — p. 720-725. (Furnrohr) Proceedings of the Section of 

 Botany and Vegetable Physiology, of the Thirty-second Meeting of German 

 Naturalists and Physicians held at Vienna, in September, 1856— p. 593-607, 

 609-624, 625-639, 641-647- 



Reviews, twenty-nine. Repertory of Periodical publications; giving the 

 contents of fifty-four different works of this class. Botanical Notices extracted, 

 fifty-one. Collections of dried plants, thirty-eight. Notices of Scientific So- 

 cieties and Institutions, &c. 



Neueste Schriften der Naturforschen den Gesellschaft in Danzig. 

 Transactions of the Danzig Society of Naturalists. N. S. 4to. Danzig. 



Vol. V. Part IV. A.D. 1856. 



(Lievin) On the u Dud? or Fezzan worm ; with a plate — pp. 10. This minute 



Crustacean abounds in the Natron lakes of Fezzan, where it was first observed and 



described by Dr. Oudney (Denham and Clapperton's Narrative of Travels and 



Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa — p. 58), after whom Dr. Baird has 



