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characterized by great ability and researcli, though perhaps objection 

 might be taken to the systematic arrangement of families and genera. 

 It comprehends the first part of the Lichen-flora of a pretty extensive 

 and interesting tract of country, presenting physical features sufficiently 

 diverse to afford a large number and variety of Lichens. Full de- 

 scriptions of the species are given, with the measurements of the spores, 

 as also synonyms, chiefly, however, those of Continental authors. The 

 classification adopted is into three primary sections, which are again 

 subdivided into various Orders. These are — T. LicJienes Anomali, 

 divided into the two Orders of Mycetopsora: and PJiycopsorce. II. Li- 

 cJienes homoeomerici, divided also into two Orders, Byssopsorce and 

 Gloiopsora. III. LicJienes Jieieromerici, divided into the three Orders 

 of Kryopsorce, TJudlopsora, and Podetiopso?'a. The book is illustrated 

 with numerous engravings, accurately executed, of the spores and other 

 reproductive organs of the more typical species of each family and ge- 

 nus. We can cordially recommend it, whatever exception may be 

 taken to details of the classification, as a valuable contribution, not 

 only to local, but also to general European Lichenology. 



IProrcebmgs oi Sccutics. 



LiNNEAN Society.— 2^e&. 3rd, 1870.— Q. Bentham, Esq., F.E.S., President, 

 in the chair. The following botanical papers were read : — By the President, a 

 Note from M. Correa de Mello on the Flowers of Myrocarpiis frondosus, 

 placed by Hooker and Bentham among the Sopliorem, but possessing in its aesti- 

 Tation characters intermediate between tliat tribe and the CcBsalpinicB. Also, 

 a " Revision of the Genera and Species of Capsidar Gamophyllous LiliacecB." 

 By Mr. J. G. Baker. The author had examined all the living plants in the 

 Royal Gardens at Kew, and the collection of Mr. Wilson Saunders, which he 

 believed to contain nearly all the species now in cultivation; for though these 

 plants were formerly much in request by horticulturists, other and more showy 

 sorts are now the fashion. Hence many species which were once garden flowers 

 are now only to be met with in herbaria. Mr. Baker has consiilted the col- 

 lections of Sir William Hooker, Mr. Bentham, and M. Gay at Kew, the va- 

 luable series of the older species described by Solander and others in the British 

 Museum, and the herbarium of Cape species at Trinity College, Dublin. The 

 AloinecB were omitted, having been the subject of a valuable monograph by 

 Prince Sahn-Dyck. The remainder were grouped in 26 genera and 220 species, 

 of which half ai'e from the Cape of Good Hope, and about 40 are new. Mr. 



