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Botanical Prizes. — We are pleased to learn that the Botanical 

 Society of Edinburgh offers a prize of Ten Guineas for the best 

 essay on the Reproduction of Lycopodiaceee, to be competed for 

 by Students who have attended the Botanical Class at the Royal 

 Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, during at least one of the three years 

 preceding the award, and has gained honours in the class examina- 

 tions. 



A prize of Ten Guineas is also offered through the Council of 

 the Botanical Society, by Charles Jenner, Esq., for the best essay 

 on the Structure and Reproduction of the Frondose and Foliaceous 

 Jungermanniacea3. This prize is subject to all the conditions of 

 the preceding. 



CRYPTOGAMIC LITERATURE. 



Annales des Sciences Naturelles. Vol. xvi., Nov., 1872, 

 contains, S. Sirodot, Researches in the Freshwater Alga3 of the 

 Family Le?naneacece, (pi. i., viii). E. Janczewski, on the Parasi- 

 tism of Nostoc lichenoides (with a plate). M. Woronine, Re- 

 searches on the Gonidia of Parmelia pulverulenta [with a plate). 



Bulletin de la Societe Botanique. Vol. xix., parts I. & II., 

 contain — A. Chatin, On the Truffle and its naturalisation ; E. 

 Roze, on the Fertilization of the Higher Cryptogams, especially 

 Sphagnum. ; J. de Seynes, Physiological Experiments on Penicil- 

 lium glaucum ; H. Bonnet, on a New Truffle (Tuber piperatum); 

 V. Payot, on Woodsia ilvensis '; E. Boudier, on a remarkable 

 anomaly in Agaricus maculatus ; M. Cornu, on the Zygospores of 

 Mucor fusiger ; A. Chatin, on the culture of Morels. 



Mitten, W. New Species of Ceylon Musci, in the " Journal of 

 the Linnean Society," March, 1873. 



Leighton, W. A. New Species of Mycoporium. " Journal 

 of Linnean Society," March, 1873. 



F. Currey. On a New Genus of the order Mucedines (with a 

 plate.) "Journal of Linnean Society,'' March, 1873. 



Thuemen (F. de.). Fungi Austriaci Exsiccati Cent. vii. and 

 viii., 4to, Teplitz. 



Magnus, P. Mycologische Bermerkungen, in Hedwigia. April, 

 1873. 



Geheeb, A. Bryologische Notizen, Hedwigia. April, 1873. 



Niessl, G. Beitriige zur Kenntniss der Pilze. 5 pi. 8vo. 

 Berlin. 



Berkeley and Broome. Notices of British Fungi, 'in the 

 " Annals of Natural History." May, 1873. 



Plowright, C. B. Spheeriacei Britannici (exsiccati). Cent. I. 

 King's Lynn. May, 1873. 



