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that he thought it right to lay them me the Society, he never having 
one; and as they were ited = red by him last week, he 
Fern, without a label, having a strong resemblance to an undescribed 
species of dete ao from the Devonian, recently noticed by Prin- 
cip son, of Montreal. He had obtained a drawing of the specimen 
and gg seta it to Principal Dawson, who had written as follows :— 
rn of which you enclosed a sketch I take to be Sphenopteris 
erfomisiaflia of Brongt., from the Coal formation, which that botanist 
mpares to the modern Asp 
com nium erosum, bu ich Se 
e ine a new genus, mopteris, so named from its apparent 
want of analogy with any living Fern. Th blance is t 
irginian Ferns, I mentioned it, and pointed out that the Devonian 
species helps to connect this with the genus Archeopteris—Palaopteris 
of Schimper, but that name is preocupied by a genus of Geinitz—so 
characteristic of the Devonian.” Mr. Dawson concludes :—‘‘ I am 
now preparing a report on the ‘plants of the lower Carboniferous of 
Nova Scotia, which will interest you, as they are very like those of 
the lower Coals in top oa and I pr to give in it 
Botanical Mews. 
ArtTicLEs IN JoURNALS.— APRIL. 
Bree bw J. Berkeley, ‘‘ Notices of N. American Fungi” 
(contd.).—M. C. Cooke, ‘‘ British Fungi’ (contd. 
Scottish Naturalist —A. Davidson, “ Contributions to a Flora of 
Ross-shire 
aly Jou urn. cra ene —W. Archer, Dares with ae 
of Wittrock’s Freshw ge of Gotland and 9 We 
Dyer, ‘‘ On Stem a re the Carboniferous tyoood iacee.’ 
Monthly Mierose. Journal —R. L. Maddox, ‘‘ Remarks on 4 
minute Plant Found in an Incrustation of Carb. Lime”? (tab. 12, 
Botrydium minutum 
Botaniska Notiser.—T. M. Fries, ‘‘ On the Flora of Nova Zembla. 
—F. Scheutz, ‘‘ New Localities for Plants” (Sweden). 
Botanische Zeitung.—A. W. Kichler, “On the Structure of the 
Flower of Canna” (contd. ).—L. Wittmack, ‘Catalogue of Brazilian 
s. 
Hedwigia.—P. Magnus, ‘‘ Mycological Observations.” 
