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5-27. Several of the plates are coloured, and the figures all appear 
to be truthfully rendered. They chiefly serve to illustrate the 
diagnostic characters employed in the keys to the species, which 
orm an important feature of the book. The descriptions are short 
and simple ; and the system of classification is the well-known one 
elaborated by Limpricht in his Laubmoose. The present parts are 
concerned chiefly with the Andreeacea, Cleistocarpea, Weisiacea, 
Dicranacea, and Pottiacee. The work promises to be of great 
assistance to those who can read German; but it is to be regretted 
that certain errors of spelling should have escaped correction. Thus 
we note Ortothrichacee (p. 45), osnumdioides (p. 81), Wanstorfii (p. 
105), acciphylia (p. 121), acyphylla (p. 127). These errors catch 
the eye the more readily from being printed in a conspicuous 
leaded type. 
Ar the meeting of the Linnean Society of London, on April 17th, 
r. A. C. Seward read a paper by Miss 8S. O. Ford and himself, 
“On the Anatomy of Todea, with Notes on the Affinity and 
Geological History of the Osmundacew.” The main points were: 
(1) the investigation of the anatomical structure of Todea as repre- 
sented by 7’. barbara and two of the filmy species, T. superba and 
T. hymenophylloides, with a view to a comparison with that of 
authors expressed themselves in favour of regarding the stele of 
the Osmundacew as a medullate 
Old-Time Gardens, by Alice Morse Earle, is an extremely pretty 
charmingly illustrated book produced by the Macmillan Co. in 
_ The Moss Exchange Ciub Report for 1902 has recently been 
issued, and bears gidcies of mish activity on the part of the 
members. The Club now consists of forty members, who sent in 
during the last year over three thousand packets of mosses and 
hepaties for distribution, all of which were examined and the 
naming confirmed by seven of the older members of the Club who 
