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Germany, Austria, and Switzerland has been published by P. Sydow,. 

 under the title Die Lebermoose Deutschlands, etc. In the Bot. Gazette 

 for February, L. M. Underwood gives a list of North American Hepati- 

 cse, including 49 genera and 219 species. 



Musci. — A number of important papers on Sphagnece should be men- 

 tioned. In his Promotionsprogranim, Lindberg gives an account of 

 " European and North American Sphagna,^^ preceded by a short notice 

 on the general organization and development of mosses. In Flora, 

 Warnstorf describes some new German Sphagna, and in the Bot. Central- 

 hlatt, the same writer gives an account of the Sphagna in the royal botan- 

 ical museum at Berlin. He has also issued a second part of his Sphagno- 

 theka Europea. The Centralblatt also has a paper, by Limpricht, Ziir 

 SystematiJc der Tor/moose. Husnot has published a paper on the same 

 group, Sphaguologia Europea. One of the most important papers on 

 mosses is C. Mueller's Prodromus Bryologice Argentinicce, the second 

 part of which appeared this year in Linnam, and contains descriptions 

 of 131 new species, collected principally by Lorentz. The British Moss- 

 flora of Braithwaite has been continued through part 6, which includes 

 the Dicranacece. In the Proc. Roy. Soc. of Victoria is an "Enumeration 

 of Australian Mosses," by Mitten. Of other papers on mosses we would 

 mention Liudberg's " Observations on Species of Timmia" and Ventuii's 

 Barbulw rurales, both in the Revue Bryologiqiie ; Limpricht's "New and 

 Critical Mosses" iu Flora; Fehlner's Moss- Flora of Loicer Austria ; Goe- 

 bel's Male Inflorescence of Polytrichum, and Lindberg's Families and Gen- 

 era of Swedish and Noricegian Mosses. 



Ferns and higher Cryptogams. — Eaton describes some "New or little 

 known Ferns of the United States" in the Torrey Bulletin, and in the same 

 journal are "Fern Notes" Nos. 3 and 4, by G. E. Davenport, besides 

 numerous other short notices of species in new localities from several 

 contributors. 



Dr. J. H. Mellichamp records the occurrence of Psilotum triquefrum in 

 Bluffton, S. C. In the Botanical Gazette, Davenport has some " Notes on 

 Alaska Ferns," and J. G. Lemmon describes a new species, Woodsia 

 PlummercE. The Tra ns. Saint Louis Academy contains an elaborate paper 

 by Dr. Engelmann on the Genus laoetes, with minute descriptions of 

 North American species and a very full account of their distribution. 

 An enlarged second edition of Lucieu M. Underwood's, Our Native Ferns 

 and their Allies, contains synoptical descriptions of the American Pteri- 

 dophyta north of Mexico. 



Of papers on exotic ferns there is very little to be said. In the Journ, 

 Linn. Soc. Baker describes some species, collected by Rev. E. B. Comins, 

 in the Solomon Islands, and iu the J(mrn. Bot. the same writer describes 

 some ferns from Southern Brazil. The Bot. Centralblatt has a paper by 

 Luerssen, Pteri dologische Mittheilung, in which he describes some spe- 

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