216 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Mr. A. W. Bennett, for his work on Polygalacee ; Mr. J. G. Baker, 
for his memoirs on Liliaceae ; Mr. D. Hanbury, for his investigation 
of officinal plants; Mr. J. Collins, for his report on Caoutchouc; Mr. 
M. C. Cooke, for his work on Fungi; the Rev. J. M. Crombie, for his 
publications on British Lichens; Dr. Braithwaite, for his memoirs on 
British Mosses; Mr. W. G. Smith, for his researches in connection 
with the “ Mycological Illustrations” ; and Mr. H. G. Glasspoole, 
for his intended “ Flora of Norfolk.” 
Notices of Sooks. | 
Mission Scientifique au Mexique, Recherches Botaniques publiées sous 
la direction de M. Decatsyz; premiére partie, Cryptogamie, par 
ENE Fovurnirr, avec la collaboration de MM. Nytanper 
et Brscurrette. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale. (4to, pp. 166, 
) 
been very little worked. Nylander contributes a list of fifty species, 
nearly all fruticulose or large foliaceous kinds. aper on the 
Mosses, which was entrusted to M. Bescherelle, is much fuller. It 
contains a notice of 400 species, of which i 
endemic, and a great many here described for the first time. Unfor- 
his new species and names will need a thorough revision. The great 
bulk of the present part and all the six illustrations are devoted to 
Dr. Fournier’s paper on the Mexican Ferns. This is a very valuable 
contribution to Fern-literature. Mexico is extremely rich in Ferns, 
yielding some four or five hundred species, or perhaps even six hundred, 
if we tuke in the Lycopodiacese, asisdone here. The French collections 
wha i r. Fournier 
ject, those of Martens and Galeotti, Liebmann and Fée, were all 
worked up without the opportunity of reference to standard named 
collections, so that a great many of the common American species 
