1892.) Current Literature. : 385 
Musci, many of which were named by Kindberg, with the names given 
inthis list shows gross carelessness either at one time or the other. 
The definitions of the alleged new species, nearly one-fourth of which 
are sterile, are inexcusably bad. They are so brief, unsystematic, compar- 
ative, and in such bad English that it 1s doubtful if the plants intended 
can be identified without a re-study of the nearly inaccessible types. 
For although Mr. Macoun states that “a duplicate of every specimen 
sent to Dr. Kindberg has been mounted and placed in the herbarium 
of this department” these cannot be considered the types, how- 
ever helpful they may be. 
Altogether we must conclude that what might have been a work of 
the greatest value to American bryologists has its good distributed 
through a heap of rubbish which somebody must sort over before the 
good can be separated from the bad. For there is much that is valu- 
able, and the indefatigable industry of the Canadian Botanist can- 
not be rendered entirely nugatory by the poor judgment of his Euro- 
pean collaborators. 
Contributions from the National Herbarium. 
The latest of these was issued September 2oth, and torms No. 5 of 
the first volume. Its contents are as follows: 1. List of plants col- 
lected by Dr. Edward Palmer in 1890, on Carmen Island, by J. N. Rose. 
This island is in the lower part of the Gulf of California, 120 miles 
_ South of Guaymas, and, so far as known, has been potanically explored 
_ only by Dr. Palmer. The Flora is almost identical with that of the 
_ feldt, and A. W. Evans. This part contains six divisions: (1) List of 
_ Plants from Cocos Island, by J. N. Rose. This island lies about 500 
niles southwest of Panama. (2) List of plants from ee 
: Tslands, by J. N. Rose. The plants of these famous islands were first 
_ Sollected by Darwin. (3) List of Ferns, from southern Patagonia, 4 
D.C. Eaton, (4) List of Mosses, from Fuegia and Patagonia, yy 
C. Eaton. (5) List of Liverworts from Southern Patagonia, by A. 
“Vans, with two plates. (6) List of Lichens f 
with full synonymy and range. TheH. falcaria 
“S Polymorphic character, and 5 varieties of it propose 
