228 Instrumente, — Kryptogamen im Allgemeinen. (Muscineen.) 



tated by incomparably rieh museum and conservatory material 

 available there Ferns having in very numerous instances an unusually 

 wide ränge of natural distribution. 



Polypodium Macgregorii Baker, near P. rigescens Bory. 



P. Ludovicianum Baker, near P. palmatum Blume, both from 



the Louisiades. 

 P. oblanceolatum Baker, near P. ligulatum Baker. 

 P. oleandroides Baker, near P. Zeilanicum Mettenius. 

 P. Sucklingianum Baker, near P. marginellum Swartz. 

 P. conjunetisorum Baker, near P. monilili forme Lagasca; those 



four from Mount Suckling. 

 P. cucullatum Nees. 



Hymenophyllum denticulatum Swartz, Mr. Baker mentions as 

 new for the Papuan Island. Lycopodium scariosum Forster, oecurs 

 there also, that being the most northern latitude reached by this 

 otherwise southern plant. 



Among mosslike plants oeeur as new aecording to researches 

 of a leading specialist — 



Frullania Macgregori Stephani, von Mount Knutsford. 



F. nobüis Stephani, from Mount Yule. 



F. durifolia Stephani, from Mount Suckling. 



F. seriatifolia Stephani, from Mount Yule. 



In a subsequent note Sir Ferdinand von Mueller adds: 

 — r Among the plants is still one of more than ordinary interest, 

 and therefore worthy of being recorded specially. It is an Antho- 

 bolus (A. erythrocaulis), of which genus hitherto no representative 

 outside of Australia was known. It differs from Exocarpus mainly 

 in its inflorescence. Te Papuan congener has the leaves reduced 

 to an denticular form; the stem is pink, the flowers are yellow. 

 We know as yet only the pistillate plant." W. M. 



Instrumente, Präparations- und Conservations- 



Methoden. 



Kral, F., Eine einfacLe Methode zur Isolirung des Gonococcus im Plaiten- 



verfahren. (Archiv für Dermatologie und Syphilis. Bd. XX VIII. 1894. No. 1. 



p. 115—124.) 

 Vincent, 11., Sur un nouveau mode de coloration des microorganismes daus 



le sang. (Comptes rendus de la Societe" de biologie. 1894. No. 21. p. 530 



— 531.) 



Referate. 



Bescherelle, E., Warnstorff, €. et Stephani, F., Crypto- 

 gamae centrali- am ericanae in Guatemala, Costarica- 

 Columbia et Ecuador a cl. F. Lehmann leetae. (Bulle, 

 tin de l'Herbier Boissier. II. 1894. p. 386.) 



