CRYPTO GAMIA, 397 



Figures of the anthcridia in each of the three species accompany 

 the paper. 



"Wallich. — On the development and structure of the Diatom-valve. 

 By G. C. Wallich, M.D., F.L.S. Q. J. M. S. April, 1860. Vol. 

 viii. p. 129. 



On the Siliceous Organisms of the digestive cavities of the 



Salpae, and their relation to the flint nodules of the chalk forma- 

 tion. By Surgeon G. C. Wallich, M.D., Eetired List H. M. 

 Indian Army. Q. J. M. S. January, 1860. Vol. viii. p. 36. 

 Descriptions of Desmidiacea3 from Lower Bengal. A. N. H. 



3 ser. v. p. 184. 



Weise, J. P. — Les Diatomaces du limon d'Arensbourg de Haspal et 

 de Staraia-Boussa. Petersb. Mem. I. 



West. — Bemarks on some Diatomaceae, new or imperfectly des- 

 cribed, and a new Desmid. By Tuffen West, F.L.S. Q. J. M. S. 

 July 1860. Vol. vii. p. 147. < 



Bemarks on some new Microscopic Alga3, collected by Tlios. 



Atthey. Tynes. Trans, iv. p. 321. 



6. Miscellanea of Gryptogamic Botany. 



Bertolent. — Mora Italica cryptogarua, Fasc. ii. Bononiae, 1859. 

 8vo. pp. 129-256. Wien, Sallmayer and Co. 



Bischoef. — Allgemeine Uebersicht der Organisation der phaneroga- 

 men imd kryptogamen Pllanzen. 3911 lithographirte Abbildun- 

 gen auf 77 Tafeln mit organologischen, systematischen und 

 Namen-register (Abdruck aus dem Handbuche der botanischer 

 Terminologie und System-kunde) 2. Abtheilungen. Neue wohl- 

 feile Ausgabe. Leipsic. Schrag. 4. 



1. Phanerogamen-kunde mit 2200 Abbildungen auf 47 Tafeln, 

 23 pp. 



2. Kryptogamen-kunde mit 1712 Abbildungen auf 30 Tafeln, 

 19 pp. 



Breetel. — Flora G-ermanica exsiccata Cryptogamica. Centuria I. 

 2te Auflage. Pol. 



A collection of dried cryptogamic plants, of which this first 

 century contains 8 species of vascular cryptogams, 8 species of 

 liverworts, 66 species of mosses (including 10 of Sphagnum), and 

 18 species and varieties of Algae, chiefly from the Baltic. 



Ciccoke. — De la nature des globules ovoides dans les vers a soie, par 

 M. A. Ciccone. 



The author remarks that it is beyond a doubt that the ovoid 

 corpuscles play an important part in the prevalent malady of silk- 

 worms, but that it remains to be proved what those corpuscles 

 are. Are they, he asks, crystals, or psorosperms, or haernatozoids, or 

 unicellular algae, or panhistophytons, or merely organic elements 

 of the worm ? The author decides that the globules in question 

 are organic elements of the silk-worm, and are a modified form of 

 certain small globules found in the body of th* wo— 



