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mention that the large collection of critical forms of Rubus 

 acquired by M. Genevier has recently passed into the hands of 

 Prof. Babington. 



Of Mosses, I have to report that Dr. H. Leitgeb, of G-raz, has 

 conoliulod his admirable work on Hepaticae mth the 6th Heft. 

 Liiupricht has set forth his views on the systematic arrangement 

 of Sphagnacete in the ' Botanisches Centralblatt,' vol. viii. 



Poster's recent German work on Ferns by nature-printing is 

 worth mention, perhaps, as showing how the fashion or rage for 

 ferns is extending from the English-speaking races, who have 

 hitherto held it as a monopoly. This, mth one other German 

 work, are the only excej^tions I know, not having seen a single 

 French production on the popular side of the subject. Dr. 

 Prautl is engaged on the Schizseaceae, and has issued a prelimi- 

 nary statement in Dr. Engler's ' Jahrbiicher.' 



I find that there has been considerable activity in works re- 

 lating to Algae. Prof. J. G. Agardh has published a new contri- 

 bution in the 'Acta ' of Lund University ; and a memoir of Georg 

 Klebs on the lower forms of Algae runs through five numbers 

 of the ' Botanische Zeitung.' Schmidt's Atlas of the Diato- 

 maceae has been carried on ; whilst a paper by Dr. P. T. Cleve 

 on some new and little-known Diatoms is written wholly in 

 English, according to the author's practice ; it may be seen in 

 the ' Handlingar ' of the Eoyal Swedish Academy of Sciences. 

 M. Prinz has some remarks on sections of Diatoms in rocks 

 from Nykjobing, in Jutland, in the ' Bulletin ' of the Belgian 

 Microscopical Society. Herr Grunow has virtually monographed 

 the genus Grammatophora in the ' Botanisches Centralblatt.' 



As regards Lichens, I have only to report that Dr. A. Minks 

 has followed up his work ' Das Microgonidium ' by a new one, of 

 which the first part only has appeared to the present time. It 

 is entitled ' Symbolae Licheno-mycologicae,' and professes to dis- 

 cuss the boundaries between Licheus and Fungi. 



Turniug to Fuugi, we fiud some very noteworthy issues. 

 Prof. De Bary and M. Woronin have issued their fourth series of 

 contributions on the morphology and physiology of Fuugi. Prof. 

 Fries, of Upsala, has issued another fasciculus of his ' Icones 

 selectae hymenomycetarum nondum delineatarum,' in folio ; and 

 Oscar Brefeld his fourth Heft of his researches on the lower 

 Fungi. Lastly, I may mention the publication iu our own 

 ' Transactions ' of Mr. Phillips's revision of the small genus 

 Vibrissca. 



My survey of general works ending here, I turn to the con- 

 sideration of local works. 



Since our last Anniversary Herr Nyman has published Part 3 

 of his most useful 'Conspectus florae Europaeae;' the next Part 

 will complete the work ; and it is earnestly to be hoped that an 

 adequate index will be added, the skeleton index such as he gave 

 in his earlier work the ' Syllogc ' is disappointing and meagre. Dr. 



