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nth of March, shows unicellular seer pone ia ie aaa 
the sporules with the germination and history of which we have already 
dealt. 
The genus is cree age bi from Chantransia by the absence of a 
prothallus, which is due to the biaxial germination of the sporule; 
but the germina ation of Aa oospore is, as we have already seen, uni- 
axial and prothalline, and furnishes an intermediate condition. 
Botanical Mews. 
ARTICLES In Journats,— May. ; 
* American Naturalist.—W. J. Beal, OAL Santa ih eativath on.’ 
Tr 
Silliman’s American Journal,—J. H. Trumbull, “Notes ou ti 
peri of aa tuberosus, the so-called J Selaai Artichoke. ee 
Nat. (ser. 6, vol. iv., pt. 1).—S. Arloing, ‘* Anato- 
mical deen on the cuttings of Cactaces. ”_N, Sorokine, ‘* Note 
on the vegetable parasites on Anguillule.” 
Austria.”—C, Haussknecht, “On Carex nemorosa, Rebent.”—T. v. 
Heldreich, ‘‘ On three species new to European Flora.” —L. Sanko shed 
ve Descriptiones Plant. novarum.”—A. Kerner, ‘‘ Distribution of Hun- 
garian plants’? (contd.).—L. Celakovaky, ‘Notes on Flora of Bohemia” 
(contd.).—S. Schulzer v. Muggenburg, ‘‘ Mycological notes ” (contd.). 
—W. Vass, ‘On plant-diffusion (udbecka lacinvata).— —J. L. Holuby, 
‘‘On the flora of the Neutra districts,’—F. Antoine, ‘‘ Botany of 
Vienna Exhibition.” 
Bot. sae i —H. Hoffmann, ‘“ Experiments in cultivation” 
(contd ).—J. Peyritsch, ‘On the ovular ae? —H. Bauke, “On 
the seve ees of Ascomycetes. ”—G, Kraus, * Oddursetioe of Inulin 
out of Composite 
Flora,—G. ‘Winter, ‘* Lichenological uate R e, 4).—H. G. 
pout . i gb in — fess ” (contd.).—F. v. Thuemen, 
Diagn u : 
ee 9 Britis h).—M. Gardo nies, ae Roses nove Galliam austro- 
edwigia, cory Magnus, ‘ Remarks on some Uredinee,’’—Sauter, 
_ Mycological notes.” 
ar Névénytanilapok. --M. Staub and M. Toth, ‘‘On what 
soils does the Chestnut grow in Hungary ?” 
Botaniska Notiser (May 18).—F. W. C. Areschoug, ‘On 
mechanical cell thickening in leaves.’—S. O. Lindberg, ‘ Disen- 
tanglement of the forms confounded under the name of Sauteria 
alpina.’ —N. PAC ** Mosses from the North Bégeskov, Nor- 
way."—K. A. T. Seth, “Phanerogamic Flora of Medelpad.”—0. 
