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of Ferns of any one in our time. It is much to be wished that his excellent 
collection of dried REM may be added to that of Kunze, for publie use at the 
rini of Lei 
s left the Siow garden in Leipzig in such an excellent state, gà 
-it dig serve as a pattern to any other.— Professor Caspary in * Gardne 
Chronicle.’ 
We append a list of the writings of — Mettenius, kindly supplied by 
Boned beat ant through Dr. Master: 
. 1. De Salvinia, Diss. Inaug.; Fra e .-M., 1845, 4to. 2. Beiträge zur 
a wickelungsgeschichte der beweglich. "Thierinfusion von Chara hispida; 
. Mohl et Schlechtendal, Botan. Zeitung, 1845, p. 17. 3. Beiträge zur Kenntniss 
der Rhizocarpeen; Frankfort-a.-M., 1846, 4to. . 4. Ueber Azolla (in Linnza, 
xx. 1847). 5. Beitrüge zur Resto der Botanik ; Heidelberg, 1850, 8vo. 
6. Filices Horti Botanici Lipsiensis; Leipzig, 1856, fol. 7. Filices Lech- 
Jeriang. Chilonte . = Poruane ; Leipzig, Fasc. i., 1857, 8vo. 8. Ueber einige 
d. Senkenb. naturf. Ges $.; Frankfort- a.-M., pit eis 
. itrüg 
(Abhdlg. d. Kónigl. Sachs. Gesellschaft d. Winauchialk : Bd. vii, [Bea 
1860). 10. Ueber Seitenknospen bei gee (ibid., 1860). 11. Ueber den 
Bau von Angiopteris (ibid., ix.,1863). .12. Ueber die dep gait epee (ibid., 
ix., 1864). 13. Filices Nove elim (ám. Se. Nat., ser. 4, vol. iv., 1861, 
p.95. 14. Prodrom. Fl. Nove Granate is, par ee jh Planchon ; Filices, 
auctore Mettenio, Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, vol ii, p. 193, 1864. 15. Filice præ- 
sertim Indicæ et Taponice, in Miquel Annales Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat., Fasc. ii., 
1863 ; Fase. vii. et viii., 1864. 16. Azolla Nilotica, Decaisne, in Kotschy Plante 
RSA 1866, fol. 
The Rev. M. J. Berkeley described a new genus of Fungi at the last meeting 
s ben Linnean Soci, to which be gere the name of Wynnea. The specimens 
Peziza leporina. ltis described as having 
a common stem three i inches high, aa d thxee-quarters of an inch thick, and is 
cups of two inches and a half to three inches long, smooth externally, but 
wrinkled within, having incurved margins variously divided, and being some- 
times proliferous. 
A LaRGE Trex OF NrcARAGUA.— Passing Nagarote, I measured a famous 
Genisaro-tree (Pifhecolobium Saman, Benth.), of which the villagers are justly 
proud, and for which two hundred dollars have been offered, a high price in a 
The stem, 4 feet above the base, is 21 feet in circumference; and 
the crown of tho tme eke oy emilee c oie 348 feet. A whole regiment of 
- soldic in ited hadı B. SrEMANN in the ‘Atheneum.’] 
The Society me: 
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