1888. | BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 169° 257 
results of his collecting and anh appeRe in collected paren in 1 this admirable 
“Flora Miquelonensis.”* Dr. D 
of this little work by a number of specialists, some of whites ariel appear. 
as joint authors. The flora contains a description of the topography, 
climate and superficial geology of the isle, extended remarks on the 
relative distribution of the phanerogams, with interesting notes on 
various matters. The introduced and cultivated species are indicated, 
and also species found by de la Pylaie. Of the cryptogams, the ninety- — 
four species of mosses are treated at greatest length, and the list contains. 
descriptions of several new varieties and one new species, Dicranum 
Miquelonense Ren. et Card., and a new sub-species of Rhacomitrium 
canescens, viz.: R. Dilaivcires R. & C. Only four species are extra- — 
Mg 
Euro ropean. Five species new to North America are pyar in the 
ies. 
pe 
away, which was long ago explored by de la Pylaie, receives but scant, 
a In this paper, which is an admirable contribution to geogra aphical — 
may nile 
Our Native Ferns.‘ 
he determina _ 
Keys which lead the user to within one or two species of t 
Mi *DELAm E, E., RENAULD, F., Carport, J.—Flora Miquelonensis: Florule de Tile 
snchianse Umiesiae du Nom: : cae uae systématique avec no spec 
’ oe vasculaires, Mousses, Sph aignes, Hépatiques et Lie 
ciation Typographique, 1888. 
tion: hk mag Lucien M.—Our native ferns and their allies, with ai rn" 3 vty 156, 
‘ogi the American Pteridophyta north of Mex — hird edition, re P 
12mo, New York: Henry Holt & Co. 
tes descriptives i 
