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are usually taken for corals by the uninitiated, especially 

 when they rise into lobulated or branched forms. They are, 

 however, usually seaweeds of the red group, belonging to the 

 genus Lit hoth amnion. Two species of Litlioih amnion, L. 

 polymorphum and L. Lenormandi have been credited to our 

 coast. But M. Foslie, in revising the species of the genus 

 and subjecting them to critical study has found that these 

 older names have been used by various authors to include a 

 number of well defined forms, and all the specimens from 

 any given locality must be worked over anew. In this small 

 paper before us, which follows his larger one on the Nor- 

 wegian forms, he describes two new species from California, 

 L. pallescens Foslie, and L. elegans Foslie, and credits our 

 coast with three more, L. crassiim Phil., L. deniatum 

 (Kuetz.) Aresch., and L. coralloides Cr. L. magellanicum 

 from the Straits of Magellan is another new species which 

 may yet be found on our coast. The specimens were com- 

 municated by Mr. P. Hariot of Paris. 



Excellent figures from photographs accompany the ar- 

 ticle. — w. A. s. 



SHOET ARTICLES. 



Chamisso Botanical Club: — Mr. Marshall A. Howe 

 presented a paper at the regular meeting held February 20th 

 on " A Comparison of the Hepatic flora of the Eastern United 

 States and of Europe." The following interesting table 

 showing the comparative distribution of species was given, 

 which shows that our Hepatic Flora is much more closely 

 related to that of the British Islands and Central and North- 

 ern Europe than it is to that of the region comprised within 

 the limits of Gray's 3fanual. 



