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fauna of the Bay of Naples, appeared in 1881, and includes the genus 

 CoraUina, by Graf Solms-Laubach. It is a small folio of Gl pages, with 

 3 lithographic plates. It begins with an enumeration of the Coral- 

 Unece of Naples, Avhich is followed by an account of the development 

 of the fruit in the genus CoraUina^ and remarks on Ampliiroa, Melohcsia^ 

 I/ithopJiyUum, iuid Lithothamnion. In the proceedings of the Zoological 

 Station at Naples is a paper, by Berthold, on the Sexual Reproduction 

 of the Pha^osporccE Proper. In Ectocarpus siliculosus he found that some of 

 the zoospores came to rest earlier than others. These were the females, 

 around which the males collected in considerable numbers, until one of 

 the latter became fused with the female, which was then surrounded by 

 a cell-wall, and germinated. In the Botanische Zeitung is a paper by 

 Klebs, Beitrage zur Kenntniss niedercr Algeu formerly in which a number 

 of new endophytic algte are described, including three new genera, 

 UndospJiccra, Phyllohium, and Scotinosphccra. In Iledwigia, Wolhiy gives 

 an account of the algse of Helgoland. Of papers on Desmids may be 

 be mentioned Nordstedt's De Algis nonnuUis, prcccipue DesmidciSj inter 

 Utricularias Musei Lugduno-Batavi, in which he describes species from 

 Senegal, Venezuela, the Cape of Good Hope and Java, and Archer's 

 New Zealand Desmids in Grevillea. The Encyklopiidie der Naturwis:sen- 

 schaften contains a general account of algce by Falkenberg, entitled 

 Die Algen im iceitesten Sinne, a paper of 143 pages, with numerous wood- 

 cuts. 



Of publications relating to alg?e of the United States should be men- 

 tioned Farlow's Marine Alga; of New England and Adjacent Coast, which 

 forms a part of the Eeport of United States Fish Commission for 1879, 

 comprising an account of all the marine species known to occur in that 

 region, with the exception of the diatoms. The paper is accompanied 

 by plates showing the microscopic structure of the different genera. 

 The Sea Mosses, by Kev. A. B. Hervey, gives popular descriptions of the 

 more striking sea- weeds of the United States, with colored illustrations, 

 besides an introduction on the general structure of algae. The Torrey 

 Bulletin contains two papers by Wolle on American Fresh -Water Alga;, 

 with a plate of new American Desmids, and a note on Laminaricc hy Far- 

 low. Mr. C. M. Vorce gives, in the Proceedings of the American Society 

 of Microscopists, two plates with notes representing the forms of micro- 

 scopic vegetable and animal life observed in the water of Lake Erie. 

 The fourth lasciculus oiAlgcc Am. Bor., by Farlow, Anderson, and Eaton, 

 was issued in June, 1881, and contains i)rinci pally species of Floridecc. 



The diatoms collected on oysters at Ningpo and Nimrod Sound, China, 

 is the subject of an illustrated paper by P. Petit in the memoirs of the 

 Cherbourg society. Cleve gives descriptions and i)lates of diatoms 

 from Honolulu, the Galapagos Islands, Port Jackson, and the Mediter- 

 ranean in a ])aper entitled On some new and little known Diatoms in the 

 proceedings of the Swedish lioyal Academy. The genus Grammaiopliora, 

 in connection with plates 53 and 53 B of Van Heurck's Synopsis of 

 S. Mis, 109 2G 



