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Grevillea by Cooke. Kalclibrenner has continued his account of Cape 

 fungi, Fungi Macoicaniani, in GreA'illea, and in the Memoirs of the Ilun- 

 garian Academy he has published an ilhistxatcd monograph, PhaUoidei 

 novi vel minus cogniti. The fungi of the late ^Mlle. Libert form the sub- 

 ject of two papers; one by Cooke and Philips in Gre\illea, which in- 

 cludes DiscomyceUs, and the other by Eoumegu^re and Saccardo in the 

 Eevue Mycologique, including, principally, Pyrenomycctes and Fungi 

 imperfecti. Several decades of dried fungi, from Buenos Ay res and 

 Brazil, have been issued by Spegazzini, under the name of Hongas sud- 

 americanos. The Mycotheca universalis and other European series of 

 dried fungi has been continued in several centuries. 



Characew. — In the Memoirs of the University of Lund, Nordstedt de- 

 scribes the CMracece of New Zealand collected by Dr. S. Berggren, who 

 found double the number of species previously known to exist in that 

 region. J. Mueller, in the Bull. Soc. Bot. of Geneva, describes the Char- 

 acew growing near that city. The occurrence of Ch^ra obtusa Desv. in 

 Britain is recorded by Henrj^ and James Groves, who also have Notes on 

 British Characew in the Journal of Botany. A fasciculus of American 

 Characew has been issued by Dr. T. F. Allen, of Xew York. 



AECHEGONIATA. 



Muscinew. — In this department of botany there have appeared a 

 number of descriptive works, but very few relating to development. Of 

 the latter the most important is Leitgeb's Untersuchungen ilber die 

 Lehermoose^ which is continued in a fourth volume treating of the Mar- 

 cJiantiaccw, with general remarks on Sepati^w, illustrated with eleven 

 plates. He gives his observations especially oh the organs of repro- 

 duction and discusses the arrangement of the genera, which he places 

 in three tribes: Bicciew, Corsinicw, Mareltanticie. He defines four tj^ies 

 of sporogonium in liverworts, but recognizes only three in mosses. 

 Leitgeb also has a paper on the position of the fruit-sack in some of the 

 Jungermanniw in the Proceedings of the Vienna Academy. Klein records 

 the occurrence of buds on the inflorescence stalks of Marchantia. In 

 Flora, Jack gives descriptions of the European species of Radula. The 

 Hepaticw collexjted in Tasmania and j^ew Zealand by Beccari have been 

 described by Hampe and Geheeb in the Revue Bryologique. In the way 

 of exsiccatae we would notice the appearance of the eleventh and twelfth 

 decades of Massalongo's Hepaticw Italiw Tenetw. 



On the subject of mosses we have to notice in Great Britain the ap- 

 pearance of a reprint of the London Catalogue ofBrifi.sh Mosses and Hepa- 

 ticw under the direction of the Botanical Record Club, also the fourth 

 part of Braith waite's Brlti^sh Moss Flora, comprisin g the Fissidcntacew. In 

 Germany we should mention tJie work of AVarnstorf, Die Europaischen 

 Tor/moose, with critical descriptions of species, and the ISphagnotheea 

 Europwa of the same writer, which is a collection of 50 dried speci- 

 mens of SpLagna. In answer to Warnstorf, there was a reply by Lim- 



