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CRYPTOGAMIC LITERATURE. 



Mycologische Berichte, by Dr. Hermann Hoffman, Professor 

 of Botany at Giessen. Part iii., for 1871, contains abstracts of 

 contributions to Mycological Literature, during the year 1871. 

 ~* Hedwigia. Nos. 1 to 4, for 1872, contain descriptions of new- 

 species of Desmids, found in the United States by Dr. Wood, 

 transcribed from the " Proceedings of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, of Philadelphia," No. 3, Aug., Sept., 1869. An abstract 

 of " Polymorphic Fungi," by M. C. Cooke, in " Pop. Sci. Rev.," 

 Jan. 1871. Conspectus of the Families of Cryptogamia, as ar- 

 ranged by Ferdinand Cohn. Review of M. C. Cooke's " Handbook 

 of British Fungi," with other notices and reviews. 



Podisoma. A communication on the supposed Fungus on Coleus 

 leaves, and notes on Podisoma, by Henry J. Slack, F.G.S., is pub 

 lished in the " Monthly Microscopical Journal," No. 41, for May, 

 1872. 



Mycologia Europcea, by Gonnermann and Rabenhorst. Parts 

 8 and 9 contain plates of the Agaricini. 



Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, vol. 

 xi., part 1, contains papers " On new and rare Mosses, from Ben 

 Lawers, Perthshire," by J. Stirton, M.D., in which Zygodon Stir- 

 toni (Schp.), Hypnum Breadalbanense (White), and Hypnum anno- 

 tinum (Stirt.), are included, but without any diagnosis. " Notes on 

 the structure and measurement of cells of Hepaticas," by J. W. 

 Edmond, M.B., is a very useful, practical paper. " Notes on the 

 distribution of Algae," by George Dickie, M.D., Professor of Botany, 

 Aberdeen. 



Journal of the Linnean Society, No. 66, contains " Bryo- 

 logical Notes," by S. O. Lindberg, M.D., with descriptions and 

 synonymy of Hypnum Teesdalei (Sm.), Hypnum curvisetum (Brid.). 

 The synonyms of Clasmatodon parvulus (Sull.), Clasmatodon per- 

 ■pusillus (Lindb.), and Clasmatodon Bertrami (Lindb.) ; and also 

 descriptions of Fabronia Schimperi (De N.), and Fabronia p>usilla 

 (De N.). 

 f- Contribution to the Biology and History of the Develop- 

 ment of the Ustilagi^e^e, by Dr. Fischer von Waldheim, trans- 

 lated for the " Transactions of the New York State Agricultural 

 Society," for 1870, and just published at Albany, N. Y. It is a 

 translation of the memoir published in Pringsheim's " Jahrbucher," 

 for 1869. 

 f- Report of the Botanist to the New York State Cabinet of 

 Natural History, for the year 1869, Appendix C, contains figures 

 and descriptions of several new species of U.S. Fungi. Albany, 1872. 

 — A Synopsis of the Erysiphei of the United States, by 

 M. C. Cooke, M.A., and C. H. Peck, is published in the " Journal 

 of Botany," for January and June, 1872. 



