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otdi NEW PUBLICATIONS.: 
The Lichen Flora of the Eastern Borders. By James Hardy. Pro- 
ceedings of Berwick Naturalists’ Club. Alnwick: H. H. Blair. 
Contributions to the British and Irish Floras of Musci and Hepatice, 
with additional habitats for some of the rarer species. By David 
“Moore, Ph.D., F.L.S., etc. Dublin: Zool. and Bot. Association. 
Gleanings among the Irish Cryptogams. By Benjamin Carrington, 
M.D., F.L.S., etc. London: W. Pamplin. 
_The labours of Watson in his * Cybele Britannica,’ and of the various 
authors of local Floras (works which now deservedly occupy an im- 
portant place in our botanical literature), have done much to make us 
acquainted with the distribution in Britain of our flowering plants; 
but of the geographical distribution of the Cryptogamia almost nothing 
isknown. The monographs of the different families contain, it is true, 
localities for all, except the generally-distributed species; but it is only 
by chance that these tell anything of the limits of the species. We there- 
fore gladly weleome any help towards doing for the flowerless, what 
has ‘been so far done for the flowering, plants. 
» Dr. Johnstone, in his * Botany of the Eastern Borders,’ gave a cata- 
logue of 77 species found in this district. Mr. Hardy’s list contains 
244 species. We do not know whether the district is a definitely 
i i far from the truth if we consider 
it-as including Berwickshire an 
land! Mr. Mudd in his * Manual’ gives the number of British species 
as 495, so that Mr. Hardy’s list contains nearly half of them. tn 
determining his species he had the assistance of Dr. Lindsay, Mr. 
Mudd, and the Rev. T. Salwey, and the use of the late Dr. Johnstone's 
herbarium, which had passed through the hands of the Rev. W. A. 
Leighton, and also Mr. Baker's herbarium, which is rich in typical 
specimens; Mr. Hardy, therefore, in addition to his own familiarity 
with this.family of plants, had the best assistance to ensure the ac- 
curacy: of his list... The- critical remarks appended to many of ihe 
Species attest. the careful and accurate observation of the author. 
Dr. D. Moore in his ' Contributions’ records the discovery of sev 
species, till then unknown in Britain. These are Orthotrichum Sturmit, 
oppe ; Campylopus polytrichoides, De Not. ; Sarcoscyphus Funckii, 
