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lUtlc known Ferm of the United States, by the same writer ; who has also 

 issued a tSystematic Fern-List of the species of this country. In tlie Dull. 

 Torr. Club are two papers by G. E. Daven])ort, on a new species, Notho- 

 Ucna Gmyi, from Arizona, and on Vernation in Botrychium boreale, and 

 a paper on Ferns of the Cumberland, hy John Wilhamson. The occur- 

 rence of the rare Schizcea jmsilla in Xova Scotia is recorded by Pro- 

 fessor Gray jn the Bot. Gazette. In the same journal are notes by Pro- 

 fessor Gray and E. J. Loomis on an automatic movement of the frond 

 of AHplenium Trichomanes. 



Baker describes some new ferns, collected by Beccari in Sumatra, 

 and a collection from Madagascar by Langley Kitcbing in the Joui-nal 

 of Botany, where the same writer has also published a Syno2)sis of the 

 Species oflsoetes. In the Trans. Linn. Soc. is a llcvieic of the Ferns of 

 Northern India, by C. B. Clarke. 



In tlu department of mosses and hepatics there has appeared in the 

 United States a Catalogue of North American Mosses, by E. A. liau and 

 A. B. Ilervey, and Bryoloyical Notes and Criticisms, by C. F. Austin, in 

 the Bull. Torrey Club. An important work is Sphaynacew of Europe 

 and North America, by II. Braithwaite, and the British Moss-Flora, part 2, 

 including the Buxbaumiacece and Georgiacea', by the same author. The 

 Annales des Sciences contain a paper by Bescherelle, entitled Florule 

 Bryologique de la Reunion, w^hich also includes mosses from other neigh- 

 boi.ng islands. Lindberg has published notes on Scandinavian mosses 

 and C. Miiller a Frodromus Bryologixc Argentina, the last named 

 paper l)eing a continuation in the Ilevue Bryologique. In Grevillea 

 and in tlie Trans, of Bot. Soc. of Edinburgh are notes on British Mepaticce 

 by Carrington. The Jungermanniacece have been studied by Gottsche 

 who has published new observations oa the Geocalycem and Stephani 

 has i)ublished a paper on the Jungermanniacece of Germany with illus- 

 tratiojis. 



Treating of Characew we have to notice the ap]>earance of two num- 

 bers of the Characew of America, by Dr. T, F. Allen, in which three 

 species of NiteUa and three of Chara are described and figured. Dr. 

 Allen has also an article in the Bull. Torr. Club on the Similarity between 

 the Characew (f America and Asia in wiiich he calls special attention to 

 Nitella polyglochin A. Br. and Chara Hydropitys Eeichenb. A Review of 

 the British Characew, by Henry and James Groves, is given in the 

 Journal of Botany. 



On the general development of the higher cryptogams is to be men- 

 tioned Die Gefllsshryptogamen by Sadebeck, in the Encyklopaedie der 

 Naturwissenschaften and Goebel's Fmbryologie der Archegoniatcu in 

 Arbeiten Bot. Institutes in Wurzburg. Leitgeb has published several 

 important papers on Marchantiacew, especially with reference to their 

 iutlorescouce and stomata in the proceedings of the Vienna Academy. 

 Cramer has an illustrated paper on the Nonsexual increase of the Fern- 



