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Scotland. He has, moreover, rendered good service in recording 

 the host plants upon which other Algfe grow parasitically. The 

 number of species enumerated, as found on the shores of the Firth 

 of Forth, are 225, of which one-ninth of the whole number are new 

 to Britain, having been found since the publication of Harvey's 

 ' Phycologia Britannica.' The observations which Mr. Traill has 

 made and now published must therefore be regarded as a valuable 

 contribution to our linowledge of the British Marine Flora, and to 

 the life-history of nearly half the British species. There are eight 

 illustrations of the rarer species, varying in different copies, but 

 Spluicelaria plumiyera, Callithamnion arbuscida, and Dictyosiphon 

 Mesugloia occur in most of them, and Callithamnion harhatum in 

 some. The work should be in the hands of all lovers of this 

 beautiful class of plants, and especially of those interested in the 

 fructification of Marine Alga. E. M. H. 



Messrs. W. H. Allen & Co. send us a pretty little volume of 

 Transatlantic origin, entitled ' The Wonders of Plant-life under the 

 Microscope,' by Sophie Bledsoe Herrick. The chapters are in 

 part reprinted from ' Scribner's Monthly,' with several additional 

 ones intended to render the series more connected. Insectivorous 

 plants come in for a large share of consideration. There are 

 numerous illustrations, many of them good and new. 



New Books. — 0. Kirchner, ' Die Mikroscopische Pflanzenwelt 

 des Siisswassers ' (Braunschweig, Hajring, 1885 (1884) ; 4to, pp. x. 

 56. 4 plates). — M. Gandoger, ' Eubus nouveaux ' (Paris, Savy : 

 Svo, pp. iv. 145). — A. Cariot, 'Etudes des Fleurs : Botanique Ele- 

 nientaire, descriptive, et usuelle, renfermant la Flore du Bassin 

 Moyen du Rhone et de la Loire' (Lyon, Vitte et Perrussel : 3 vols. 

 Svo, pp. xvi. 440, tt. 23 ; pp. viii. 892 ; pp. xvu. 342). — A. Franchet, 

 ' Plantte Davidianse ex Siuarum imperio : pt. i. Plantes de Mongolie ' 

 (Paris, Massou : 4to, pp. 390, tt. 27). — G. Vasey, ' The Agricultural 

 Grasses of the United States ' (Washington, Government Printing 

 Ofdce: Svo, pp. 144, tt. 120). 



Articles in Journals. 



American Naturalist. — J. B. ElHs & G. Martin, ' New N. 

 American Fungi ' [Septoria j^urpurascens, Pestalozzia scirpina, Cerco- 

 spora racemusa, Ov alar ia monilio ides, Sphcerella platani, spp. nn.). 



Ann. d- Mag. Nat. Hist. — W. Houghton, ' Notices of Fungi in 

 Greek and Latin Authors.' 



Botanical Gazette (Dec). — G. Vasey & E. L. Scribner, Eriochloa 

 Lemmoni, sp. n. (1 plate). — F. L. Scribner, ' Arizona Plants ' 

 [Muehlenberyia depanperata, sp. n.). — T. J. Burrill, ' New Uredinece.' 

 A. Gattinger, Silphium brachiatum, n. sp. 



Uot. Centraiblatt (No. 1). — H. Bruchmann, 'Das Prothallium 

 von Lycopodiniii' (1 tab.). — (No. 2). V. v. Borbas, ' Arabis ape)inina 

 Tausch.' — (Nos. 3 & 4). E. Ihue, ' Karbe der Aufbliih zeit von 

 Syrinya vidyaris in Europa.' 



