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Notice of the ' London Journal of Botany.'' No. 41, May, and No. 



42, June, 1845. 



The May number contains — 



' Botanical Information,' continued from April. 



'Lindley's Vegetable Kingdom,' being an announcement of a third 

 edition of Dr. Lindley's 'Natural System of Botany, or a Systematic 

 View of the Organization, Natural Affinities, and Geographical Distri- 

 bution of the whole Vegetable Kingdom.' The editor of the ' Journal ' 

 says it " will be in reality a new work." 



' Algae Antarcticae, being characters and descriptions of the hitherto 

 unpublished species of Algas, discovered in Lord Auckland's group, 

 Campbell's Island, Kerguelen's Land, Falkland Islands, Cape Horn 

 and other southern circumpolar regions, during the Voyages of H.M. 

 discovery ships Erebus and Terror,' by Dr. J. D. Hooker, and W. H. 

 Harvey, Esq., M.D. 



' On six species of Jungermanniae, new to Britain,' by Thomas 

 Taylor, M.D. 



It seems that for this important addition to the British Flora we 

 are indebted to the acuteness and sagacity of the late Mr. Thomas 

 Drummond ; all the species were found in the Highlands of Scotland. 

 " They occur among other cryptogamic discoveries of the same indi- 

 vidual in the extensive and most valuable collection of Sir William 

 Hooker." The species are 



1. J. (Scapania) uliginosa. Nees, Hep. p. 67. 



Distinguished from Scapania nemorosa, Nees, and S. undata, Nees, 

 "by the constantly entire leaves, and by the far less ratio of their 

 smaller to their greater lobes, as well as by its more aquatic habitat." 



2. J. (Scapania) subalpina, Nees, B. undulifolia, Synops. Hep. p. 

 64. 



Dr. Drummond having examined the fructification makes the fol- 

 lowing addition to the character given in Nees' Synopsis, " Calyx much 

 longer than the perichsetium, obovate, compressed, truncate, denticu- 

 late, with a nari'ow base." 



3. J. Schraderi, Mart. Flor. Erlang. Crypt., p. 180, t. 6, f. 55. J. 

 autumnalis, Decand. Flor. Franc, t. 5, p. 202. 



This species is well known as an inhabitant of Europe from Por- 

 tugal to the north of Germany : it occurs also in America from Ca- 

 nada to New York. 



4. J. Zeyheri, Hilben, Hep. Germ. p. 89, n. 25, Synops. Hepal. 

 p. 96. 



