68 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ March, 
menta” have been edited by Dr. Nordstedt. Dr. Allen’s work eh 
stimulate botanists to collect our American species, for, according to g 
author, very little of it has been done. 
Minor notices. 
E Sphagnacex come in for a large share of the study of mosses. Bs 
Martin Waldner has published? details of his investigations on the develo 
r itself. 
systematic side, Dr. Karl Miiller (Halle) adds® to nes 
The paper is prefaced by a brief characteri 
t Sphagnologists. Then follow descriptions 
es from various localities in Africa, South 
and adjacent islands. 
IN HIS notes on the genus Taphrina, Mr. Robinson gives a synopsis 
of the best known North American pecies, eight in number, with remarks 
upon their morphology and distribution, Ascomyces deformans bee 
purpurascens is raised to the rank of a species,and referred to “ nie 
Fries, char. a Tulasne emend.,” as are all the species of Ascomyces an 
Ex 
‘ : : in Dr. 
oascus. The paper is an outcome, we infer, of a winter’s work in D: 
Farlow’s laboratory. 
WE HAVE received a German abstract, by Dr. Schénland,!° of Prof. F. 
Uy op 
®WALDNER, Dr, MARTIN.—Die Entwickelung der Sporogone y 
num. pp. 25, pl. iy. (i, fi, iii, double) i 
on A A 
8vo. Leipzig: Arthur Felix, 1887.—M. 2.60 
*Bot. Zeit. (1879,) 
SMULLER, CaRoLUs —Spha n Sa t Abdruck aus 
Flora, no. 26'u, 27 Pp. 0. 4 sep ram novorum descriptio. 8yo, Separa 
“ROBINSON, Bens. U.—Notes on the genus Taphrina. pp. 14. Reprint from Annals 
Botany, November, 1887, 
da Sphag- 
Bowerr, F. O.—Ueber die Entwickelung u. die Morphologie von Phyloglossum emet 
mondii. I Teil: Die vegetative. Organe. (Auszug aus dem englischen Original von Dr. * 
mre.) Wo. 8 Met. Ges cae aus Bot. Jahrbiicher, viii band, 4 heft. 1887. 
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