472 The Botanical Gazette. [October. 
part of Greenland is almost unknown t out roo species of 
Desmidice are enumerated, of which forty-one belong to the genus 
enty-nine to Staurastrum., lyxophycee are 
represented by fifteen genera with about thirty species. The most fre- 
— were Sagonema and Gloeocapsa, which formed the main part of 
az black ee on the rocks, so frequently observed in the land- 
ape.— 
the vice-presidents of Sections F and G and the director of the labor- 
atory: viz. Messrs. Theodore N. Gill, Washington, D. C., N. L. Brit- 
ton, New York, N. Y., and C. O. Whitman, University of Chicago. 
THE PRESENCE of tendrils or clasping filaments in a cig ts ae 
r.) has lately 
x :niontememnttalttesatncainiacissaminmsnnctmeentoat TA 
ra fra Ostgroenland. Meddel. om Greenland 17: —. 1894. 
3k. coments ur une nouvelle observation de emcee de vrilles ou fila- 
France 41: —, 1894. les Champignons. Bull. de la soc. bot. de 
