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Mr. Bailey, who is the author of a " Fern World of Australia," 

 published in 1892 a most useful companion to this work in his 

 *• Lithograms of the Ferns of Queensland," giving 191 plates of 

 ferns copied by direct impression of the fronds off the stone. 

 This book is now familiar in many households, and has done 

 much to render popular the study of our numerous and beautiful 

 native ferns. In 1893, from the pen of the same author, we had 

 "A Companion for the Queensland Student of Plant Life," which 

 is a combined botanical dictionary, vegetable physiology, and 

 general vade niecnm. 



Information respecting Queensland plants has been as fully 

 given with regard to cryptogams, no matter how lowly in form, 

 as it has respecting the more noble phanerogams. Bulletin No. 

 20 deals with freshwater algse only, mainly the collections of Dr. 

 Thomas Bancroft and Mr. W. J. Byram, and which were deter- 

 mined by Professor Martin Moebius of Heidelberg. Descriptions 

 of nearly one hundred species are given, and about two-thirds of 

 the plants are also figured. Of this bulletin the late Dr. Woolla 

 wrote just before his death, " I thank you most sincerely for 

 sending me Bulletin 21, and your account of freshwater algse in 

 No. 20 ; the latter is a new departure for you. You deserve great 

 credit for venturing on unfrequented paths." The publication, in 

 1892, of Dr. M. C. Cooke's " Handbook of Australian Fungi," 

 illustrated with thirty-six coloured plates, has placed this section 

 of Australian botany on a sure footing. The work was under- 

 taken at the joint cost of the Queensland, New South Wales, 

 Victorian, and South Australian governments, and Mr. F. M. 

 Bailey of Brisbane, and Mrs. Martin of Melbourne, his friend 

 and pupil, are specially thanked by the author for the help they 

 gave by sending specimens from their collections. At the Hobart 

 meeting of the Australasian Association, Mr. Bailey read a very 

 valuable paper dealing with the minute fungi that prove such 

 pests to the florist, the gardener, and the husbandman, giving 

 concise information respecting the range of each species, and the 

 plants infested. The rich moss flora of this colony is being 

 gradually elucidated by the labours of Dr. V. F. Brotherus of 

 Helsingfors, Finland, working in conjunction with the cele- 

 brated Dr. C. Miiller of Halle ; and many new species are 



