64 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
IT. SULLIVANT. — Contributions to the BryoLoGy and 
HePATICOLOGY of Norta America; by WiLLiAM S. 
SururvawT, 4to. Part I. (From the Memoirs of the 
American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Vol. III. New 
Series.) 
The second of these two articles is a worthy companion to 
the “ Chloris Boreali-Americana," above noticed : its execu- 
tion is highly honourable to the New World, and would 
do credit to any town or city in Europe. "The plates are 
peculiarly excellent, drawn by Mr. Sullivant himself, full of 
microscopic dissections, and beautifully engraved. The 
author, in the execution of the figures, has evidently had 
Bruch and Schimper’s admirable * Bryologia Europea” in 
mind, and a better model he could not have chosen. 
Many of the species here figured and fully described had 
already appeared in an equally admirable work of its kind, 
“Sullivant’s Musci Alleghanienses ;” a work in 2 vols. of a 
very large quarto size, containing charming specimens, with 
printed names, and characters (when required) of 292 species 
of the Musci and Hepaticæ of North America, many of great 
rarity, and as the title announces, chiefly gathered in a 
mountainous district between Maryland and Georgia. The 
manner in which these are got up is a great improvement 
upon the excellent * Musei Americani" of Mr. Drummond ; 
and we can say with truth, that two more perfect works of 
the kind than these (Nos. 1 and 2) mentioned at the heading 
of this notice, have not appeared in any age or country. 
The species figured and described in No. 2, are: 1. PAyllo- - 
gonium Norvegicum, Brid. ; first detected in Norway, and now 
found “in large patches, pendent from the perpendicular faces 
of sandstone rocks, in moist, shady places, near Lancaster, 
Ohio." It is to be regretted that perfect capsules have not 
yet been gathered. Though placed in the same genus with & 
tropical moss, Péerigynandrum fulgens, Hedw., (the type of - 
dor. by Bridel, the author t ads ts that when its 3 
