^18 PHYCOLOGICAL MEMOIRS. 



school to foster a love of Nature in the minds of the pupils •— 

 Lycopadium annotinuni L. March 12, 1890, "within ten miles of 

 York. The locality may be particularised here as Buttercrambe 

 Moor Wood This is the first record for Yorkshire itself, and 

 greatly ex ends the southern limit of the species on the eastern side 

 of Great Britain. South of the border, it was previously known 

 only in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Carnarvon. — Hypochmri* 

 glabra L September 17, 1890, on Allerthorpe Common, near 

 1 ockhngton. This is not only entirely new to the East Riding 

 but is also the first indisputable record for the whole county. See 



North 



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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



P/iycoloyical Memoirs. Edited by George Murray, F.L.S. London ■ 



Dulau & Co. Pt. i., pp. 28, 8 plates. 



This publication, « made for the purpose of keeping within the 

 limits of one book the results of researches on Alg* in the Depart- 

 ment of Botany, British Museum," will be heartily welcomed by all 

 apologists, not only as promising an adequate investigation and 

 illustration of the algological treasures of the British Museum, but 

 also as affording one more evidence that English botanists have at 

 length become alive to their responsibilities as countrymen of 

 lurner, Harvey, and Grevilie. 



In the present parf, five papers are included. The first, and 



perhaps most important by the Misses Mitchell and Whiting, is 



E, ^markable phasophycean genus Splachnidium Grev., 



vhich according to these authors, must be considered as the 



type of a new order, the essential character bein<* £riven «<* 



« reproduction by spores contained in sporangia which areTorne" 



ontntsTrtt 0168 -'' 2T, WrlterS ' *" ™*™^ against tL 

 number 1 if conceptacular sacs being ova,-,/,., their great 



Son wit^hf COm 'f DOt , • P T feC n y conclusi ve, even when taken 

 vet * m If 1 1 1 tf ! P edlcel " ce11 and of ^ inner sac-membrane; 

 tell llt.T that these points, with the absence of antheridia 



whether fhP^ £ rf £ fa V1 T J* WOuld be of int « res t to kno^ 

 Tpmes y GVldenCe ° f the existence of fla S ella on the 



belon I 5nl IU to r tLT mm ! iCat , eS tW ,° research <*> one on «• fossil Alga 

 histoC g of /t, g / US "t' lm h0 r m the ooIite «" the other on the 

 EaSntSlS^ D ^ e ' In , the former h * atows that the 



mu be co osMe^i, m 7*?lff& deSCribed b * Mr ' D <™™> 

 must oe considered as a species of Caulerpa (C. Carruthersii) vviH 

 characters resembling those nf n n . .* -j * l wnutnenu), witli 



J • L i oci " ullu © "lOSe Ot C. CHCtOldeS Aff. In tllO latter nnnai- 



ISS"",' " g r) 0t ^ e Peculiar method oT ffi- 



