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henge ge ies iiber Schimmelpilze: Heft 2, Penicillium.” Leipzig, 
15s., 8 plates 
description and syno nymy ai e worked out in great detail, « and trans- 
eripts of Dr. Welwitsch’s sabia scAingeate i notes to each specimen 
are added, with additional details by the au 
gsheim’s “ Jahrbiicher fiir Wissenschaftliche Botanik” for 
ns metry of the twigs in Zhwa occidentalis (with one 
Pp a 
Mr. Sereno Watson has sop aha in the Proceedings of the 
American ‘Abadinay vol. viii.), issued November, 1878, useful 
revisions of the extrintyi pial North American species of the difficult 
1 tilla 
e species arranged alphabetically. ‘The advantages of thisnew 
mode of arrangement are not obvious. The w hole bears the evidences 
: re 
33 of Potentilla, and 68 of (nothera enumerated; few new species of 
are described and are m more compensated for by the reductions 
“The Lens” is a Ganrtathy Journal of Microscopy and the allied 
natural sciences, published at Chicago. It is edited by S. A. Briggs 
late President of the State Microscopical Society of Tlinois. The 
rd v with this year. num 
of seventy-six well-printed pages and occasional plates. Besides 
strictly microscopical Sethe this Journal contains articles on general 
botany. and subscription is three dollars annually ; London per 
. sy tty: ) 
, he fourth Annual Report of the Wellington College N 
Science Society Just issued contains a list of the plants of the ne 
urhood of the pata the additions, chiefly among 
from Pongheepl. © te of his 
e Rev. J. See lished the fourth fascicle © 
a Saletom eprint ” t Joe follo xamples of 
S. tri ee s 9 
Piahanendlani, 81. 8. Heliz, BE. Bot. 82. 9. nigricans, St 96 
- bicolor, Borr. 84, 8. aquatica, Sm. 85. S. nigricans, *™ 
. Smithiana, W. (non E. Bot.). 8. ity ec Forbes (2 of 
Willd. Received trom Woburn ; to be only an sate ig 
y 
- nigricans, Fr.), 88. §. phylivifalia, L L. 89, S. ferrugmes oe 
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