112 The Botanical Gazette. (Mar 
CURRENT LITERATURE. 
A notable collection of Hepaticx.* 
Dr. Richard Spruce, whose work on the Hepatice of the Amait 
and the Andes of Peru and Ecuador? forms the most elaborate atl 
extensive work in systematic hepaticology in recent times, has suppl 
mented this work by issuing the most extensive series of exsiccilt 
that has yet appeared among the Hepatice. ‘The series represents tht 
ner. . 
The further study of the collection has enabled Dr. Spruce om 
Fect some references of species that were made in his mons i 
and a number of new species appear which are not accomp’ |. 
descriptions, and hence are nomina nuda until published, ¥ sail 
§00d Doctor will doubtless attend to at once. To show 
number of the species of the monograph which are represé 
Siochila which, next to Lejeunea, is the largest and most rep 
of the South American flora. Sixty-nine species were de 
the monograph, of which thirty-nine were described 4S pee 
pruce; in the exsiccatae sixty-eight species appeal, of W 
1 
ton 
x. ges Spruceane Amazonice et Andinz, annis 1849-1860 — 
2 : ; 
Trans. Bot. Soc., Edinb. , xrv, 1-590, t. i-xxii (1885). 
