JAPANESE BOTANICAL UTERATURE. 



Okamura, K., Icones of Japanese Algae. (Vol. I, No. 3. 



(PI. XI-XV) July, 1907. Tokyo. Price 3 Mk.). 



The present number illustrates the following 5 species among 

 which two new species of Haliseris are described : Haliseris 

 undulata Holmes, H. prolifera Okam., H. divaricata sp. nov., 

 H. latiuscvla vSp. nov., Carpomitra Cabreras (Clem.) Kuetz. 



K. Okamura. 



Ckamura, K., Icones of Japanese Algae. (Vol. I, No. 4. 



(PI. XVI-XX) October, 1907. Tokyo. Price 3 Mk.). 



In the present number the author describes the following 8 

 species : Dumontia £liformis (Fl. Dan.) Grey., Chondria armata 

 (Kuetz.) Okam. {=Lophura armata Kuetz.), Gastroclonium 

 ovale (Huds.) Kuetz., Eudesme vircscens (Carm.) J. Ag., Leat- 

 hesia difformis (L.) Aresch., Cutleria adspersa (Roth) De Ton. 

 Colpomenia sinuosa (Roth) Derb. et Sol., Mesogloea crassa 



SURING. 



The formation of cystocarps from the fertilised carpogonium 

 in Dumontia £liformis, and the development of frond from zoo- 

 spores in Leathesia difformis are fully described with illustration. 



K. Okamura. 



Okamura, K., Icones of Japanese Algae. (Vol. I, No. 5. 



(PI. XXI-XXV) December, 1907. Tokyo. Price 3 Mk.). 



The present number contains the descriptions of the follow- 

 ing species : Rhodymenia pertusa (P. et R.) J. Ao., antheridia 

 and procarps oi Amansia japonica (Holm.) Okam., Bostrychia 

 tenella (Vahl) J. Ag., B. Andoi n. sp., Pachidictyon coriaceum 

 (Holm.) Okam., Gymnosorus collaris (Ag.) J. Ag., Cblanidote 

 repens Okam. (nom. emend.), Stypopodium lobatum Kuetz. 



Bostrychia Andoi n. sp. has been collected on stones in a 

 torrent in a hilly district of Riukiu 5 miles from the sea. 



K. Okamura. 



