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remarkable for the scales on the perianth. The dimensions and a 

 figure of Acrolejeunea Borgeni Steph. are given, and some notes on 

 other species add to the value of the paper. As to Lejeunea 

 comuta Lmdenb., which is not included in the list, but is men- 

 tioned in the preface as being the only species recorded from 

 Madagascar in the Synopsis Hepaticarum, Stephani examined a 

 sterile specimen from Isle de France (Mougeot), preserved in Herb. 

 Lindenberg at Vienna, and says in Hedwiqia, 1890, p. 94, that it is 

 conspicuously different from the West Indian type of the species. 

 In Herb. Hampe in the British Museum is a specimen from 

 Mauritius, upon the ticket of which Gottsche has written that it 

 consists of two species belonging to the Ceratanthacea;, 



one 



with 



L.spmosa; and Lindenberg has added that he takes it all for one spe- 

 cies, and indeed for L. comuta or an intermediate form of comuta and 

 brcmliensis. One is led to speculate whether it can be identical 

 with Stephani's new species, Ceratolejeunea tnauritiana, mentioned 

 but not described in Revue Bryologique, 1891, p. 57.— A. G. 



lhe S.P.C.K. has lately issued a popular history of entomo- 

 genous fungi in a 5s. volume by Dr. M. C. Cooke, entitled Vegetable 

 Wasps and Plant Worms. As a popular account of the subject it 

 is useful. It is largely based on Mr. G. B. Gray's memoir, of 

 winch a new edition in MS. exists in the Botanical Department of 

 the British Museum; this should have been consulted by Dr. 

 Cooke. It would not be difficult to take exception on the ground of 

 accuracy to certain details. For example, " Isaria Saussurei, pro 

 tern, is a way of publishing a new species that has its drawbacks. 

 nno is "Colonel Sheering," after whom Mr. Massee published 



Lorclyceps Sherringii—heTe called C. SJieerinaii ? On turning to the 



Annals of Botany, vol. v. p. 510, where the species was first 

 published, we find - Coll. E. V. Sherring, F.L.S." Mr. Sherring 

 tnus imds himself suddenly promoted. There is another Colonel 

 on tne preceding page of the Annals, who may have been in Mr. 

 oooue s mind, or mayhap he was thinking of Cordyceps militans. 



r rift* £' *A Thomson's handsome and interesting volume on 

 f™ *• 1 ^ inm < Geor g e PMip & Son) is perhaps a little dis- 

 tSSr ■?* °° tam f* s ' inasmuch as the space devoted to plants is 

 Tw™ m aV 1 1 t 1 could not > however, be in better hands than those of 

 eenZ?°»M lUT \\° W ^ m * has been eilt ™sted, whose « Succinct 



occunlr^l °? thG M ° ra ° f British New Guinea >" dfcough 

 Snfof t ° h f re j£ *•*». ^ - arable ™ ary of tie 



iss^ tf ^ lnme °! Mr - ^ aSSee ' S British Fu >W<-Ji»r a has been 



unS tLl- C ° Py f ° r review has reached ™. so that we are 

 unable to give any account of its contents. 



under'th^somPwS fi l gUreS and describes * «* Annals of Botany, 

 an fnterestn^ St^TS "Z™ f^ 1 ""**-*"** viridLaculaU, 



We dtn^arntria B^^T^ Northumberland. 



