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_ Lichens. I had armed myself with all the necessary implements, but 
could not detect a trace of a .Lichen, either on the trees or on the 
doubtful nature was to be seen here and there. This is the more 
strange as in 1869 I found in the Korrackpore hills, south of Monghir, 
quite a quantity of saxicolous Lichens on the pure quartz rocks quite ~ 
exposed to the sun. On the other hand I obtained two or three mosses, 
one Marchantia, several Fungi, and a good number of Alga, especially 
In the waters of the Ganges and Jumna, where Zannichellia and 
Potamogeton form extensive masses on which a Synedra was very 
bundant.—S. Kurz. 
otices of Wooks. 
Norges Flora eller Beskrivelser af de i Norge vildtvoxende Karplanter 
tilligemed Angivelser af deres Udbredelse. 2 den Del, iste Helfte 
af Axet Buyrr. Christiania, 1874. 
The Conservator of the University Herbarium at Christiania is to 
be congratulated on having at length carried on the excellent Flora of 
"2906" jhe Upper limit of this in the “ ostenfjeldske” is usually about 
N. pper ey 
“wegian feet above the sea; 2 ‘ Bartroernes region,” the 
- distrtet Pines (P. Abies and P. sylvestris) which extends in the same 
- disty; ict * . sylvestris) which e 
~" UP to about 2800—3000 ft. ; 7 
