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Valenzuelianus proves to be identical with Swartz's Bol. resupinatus, 

 — a fact which never could have been discovered without original 

 specimens, the very name alone being quite enough to prevent the 

 origin of any ?uch suspicion ; and Pol. Auberiaims with Bol. micro- 

 poms, Swartz, which seems to be a species universally distributed 

 in the West Indies, and of which we possess a beautiful specimen 

 from Jamaica. 



Many of the species have been already characterized in the ' An- 

 nales des Sciences Naturelles,' but as it is useful to have a list of 

 species to avoid identity of names, we shall subjoin a catalogue of 

 those that have first appeared on the publication of the volume. 



This is the first attempt to illustrate the cellular plants of Cuba ; 

 but even the higher plants of this island are at present but imper- 

 fectly known, and we hope that it may lead to similar illustrations 

 of the other more important isles, abounding as they all do in the 

 most varied and curious forms. No expense has been spared in the 

 present instance to do justice to the subject, and the science of Dr. 

 Montagne has been well seconded by the pencil of Alfred Riocreux, 

 a young artist of the greatest promise. The analyses are all from 

 the practised pencil of the author himself. 



It remains only that we give a list of the species here first charac- 

 terized, while we congratulate the author on the happy termination 

 of his labours, and the additional frond which it contributes to the 

 wreath which he wears so modestly amongst cryptogamists : — 



Biddulphia australis. 

 Bryopsis ramulosa. 

 Caulerpa fastigiata. 

 Bostrychia, n. g., founded on 



5trigula nitidula. 

 rotula. 



Pertusaria entophloea. 

 Tlielotrema Auberianum. 



Jungermannia Rhizantha. 

 Phragmicoma Sagrajana. 

 Lejeunia phyllobola, Nees 8^ Monl. 



myriocarpa, A^ees Sf Mont 



radicosa, Nees in litt. 



cardiocarpa. 



PlIYCE/E. 



Khodomela calainistrata, Mont. 

 Spbserococcus corallopsis. 

 Ectocarpus minutulus. 



LiCHENliS. 



Thelotrema olivaceum. 

 Opegrapha filiciiia. 

 Biatora pusilla. 

 Parnielia Valenzueliana. 



MusciN^. 



Lejeunia serrulata. 



cubensis. 



Aubeiiaiia. 



Fimbriaria cubanensis, Lehm. 

 Hypnum Liliputianum. 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



LINN^AN SOCIETY. 



June 4, 1844. — The Lord Bishop of Norwich, President, in the Chair. 

 Read a continuation of Mr. Griffith's memoir, being the portion 

 relating to Sarcophyte. 



