32 PEOCEEDINQS OF THE 



Characcfc by Alex. Jirauii, edited by Dr. Nordstedt ; aada volume 

 by Mr. 8andtbrd on Exotic Ferns and Sclagiuellas, lu Fungi we 

 have Signer Saccardo's important work, his ' Sylloge fungorum,' 

 the first volume devoted to a collection of diagnoses of the Pyreno- 

 mycctcs ; Prof. Fries has issued two new parts of his ' Icones 

 selecta^ hymcnomycetarum ; ' M. Lucand, ' Coloured figures of 

 Fungi,' 2G-50 ; the ' Grevillea Atlas ; ' 37 plates of Hymenomycetous 

 Bi-itish Fungi, issued by Dr. M. C. Cooke; the second part of Leon 

 Marchand's 'Botanique cryptogamique,' containing the Ferments; 

 Hcrr Zopf on tlie Schizomycetes, in the ' Botanisches Central- 

 blatt ; ' a popular work by Mr. T. Brittain on Microfungi; and three 

 papers byMr. Marshall Ward — on Hemileia in our Journal, and on 

 tropical epiphyllous fungi in the Quart. Journ. Micr. Science 

 and the Proceedings of the lioyal Society. 



Local works may be fitly preceded by the fourth and conclu- 

 ding part of Nyman's ' Conspectus,' with an index to genera 

 only. A complete index has been compiled ; but issue of it has 

 been deferred for some time, until a Supplement can be prepared. 

 M. Husnot has published a brochure on European Sphagna, and 

 Hcrr Sydow on the European Characese hitherto known. Messrs. 

 Gronnermanu andRabenhorst's ' Mycologia europaea' has reached 

 the 9th part. 



J3ritisli Botany is represented byMr. Townsend's 'Flora of 

 Hampshire,' Dr. Braithwaite's parts 5 and 6 of his ' Moss-Flora,' 

 Dr. M. C. Cooke's ' Illustrations of British Fungi,' part vii., a 

 new issue of Mr. Grattan's popular book on British Marine 

 Algse, and parts 3 and 4 of Dr. Cooke's ' Freshwater Alga?,' the 

 last part having some adverse criticism in the ' Botanische 

 Zeitung.' 



Belgium. — Dr. Van Ileurck's ' Synopsis des Diatomees de Bel- 

 gique' has attained its fifth part. M. Layen has brought out 

 a first Supplement to the ' Cryptogamic Flora of Luxembourg '; 

 this contains fungi. 



France. — M. C Pin's ' Flore elementaire de France ' has 

 reached its fourth edition ; whilst MM. Fonvert and Achintre's 

 ' Flore d'Aix en Provence ' has reached a second edition. M. 

 Clavan has begun a Flora of the Gironde, his first fasciculus, 

 of more than 200 pages, embracing the Tlialamiflorae. M. H. 

 Olivier has started a Lichen-Flora of the Department of the Orne. 

 Cosson and Germain de St. Pierre's Atlas of the Parisian Flora 

 has been reissued ; and the eighteenth edition of M. Bautier's 

 ' Tableau analytique de la fiore Parisienne ' has been announced 

 in the booksellers' catalogues. 



Germany, South. — Dr. Pfister has begun to publish the Ferns 

 of Austria nature-printed ; and Herrcn Halacky and Braun a 

 Sup])lement to the Flora of Lower Austria. 



Germany, Xorth. — Dr. Garcke's handy volume of the German 

 Flora has reached a fourteenth edition; and of liabenhorst's 



