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102 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ April, 
The descriptiong happily include the spore characters, and they are also 
made more complete by the addition of the habitat, and the derivation of 
the specific name. Under each genus and sub-genus is an analytical 
table of the arrangement of the species, and a “ key to the species,” which a 
will greatly facilitate and simplify the labors of the student. oo 
The systematic arrangement is greatly in advance of that of the older - 
manuals, the species included in Peziza and Helotium, in the “Hand- _ 
book of British Fungi,” being here distributed in a dozen genera and 
twenty-nine sub genera, A spirit of conservatism, however, runs through — 
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Edited by Will elect, the late George En elmann, eollected for Henry Shaw, 
John Wilson @ amt Prelease and Asa Gray. 548 pp., 102 plates, 4to. Cambridge, -_ 
