S8 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
ai of Greenland by being requested i in the winter of 1867-8, by Mr. Robert 
rown, to examine and determine the lichens collected in West Greenland in 
the e course of the “West Greenland Exploring Expedition” of 1867. On 
studying in connection with the determination of the species so submitted, the 
literature of Greenland lichenology, he was surprised to find that there was no 
recorded modern list of the lichens of that country. Accordingly, the author 
had drawn up a list of all the lichens which to the present day had been found, 
or recorded to have been found, in Greenland, compiled from all the sources of 
information accessible to him. The list included 268 species and varieties. 
HL eg es on Diatomacee from Danish Greenland, collected by Mr. Robert 
Bro By Professor Dickie. No.1. All the species recorded were British, 
wit de single exception of Sepp uu iced described by the 
late Professor Bailey, from Halifax ; found also on the shores of North-west 
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Mr. Jennerand Mr. Howie in Ross-shire in July 1868. y Mr. Charles 
Howie. The author described the parts of Ross-shire visited, and enume- 
rated the different species of Mosses collected, with special reference to the 
situations and conditions of growth. The paper was illustrated by dried 
specimens of Bi quante V. On the Staining of Microscopical Preparations. 
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mauvine and Beale’s carmine solution. He showed that by means of staining, 
the high powers of the microscope can be used to bring out points of stru 
not easily apii without belue so treated. The process of staining does 
nded with any great difficulty, and the author believes that 
very important pies: may be obtained by eareful study of its action on ger- 
minating plants. VI. Letter from Dr. R. O. Cunningham to Professor Bal- 
four. “H.M.S. Nassau, Valparaiso, 3rd November, 1868.— Rather more than 
a year ago I wrote to you, describing our experience during the first season we 
spent in the Strait of Magalhaens, and possibly you may be interested by a 
few notes of our proceedings during the past year. I shall confine myself prin- 
Point two days later, on a lovely spring morning, recalling the month of April 
at home. The fresh green foliage of Fagus antarctica was really refreshing to 
the eye after our sea cruise, and a considerable number of flowering plants 
in full flower, and so were two or three Cruciferce, and a pretty little Saxifrage 
(S. exarata) bearing a close general resemblance to our S. tridactylites. We 
nical and zoological, and then moved eastward, spending a few days at Cape 
Negro, where I procured Oxalis enneaphylla, Arabis Macleniana, Embothrium 
