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understand Agardh’s determination, except by supposing that on 
the shores of Norway and Sweden it is almost always found on that 
plant, just as Elachista Agape or Polysiphonia fastivat are on 
Fucus in this country. No. 23 is a plant which has long passed 
under the name of Sphacelaria facies but it is eaue distinct from 
yngbye’s plant in having fruit on the ultimate ramuli. No. 1 has 
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special branches, forming a dense velvety layer surrounding the main 
eo or Lidar axes, and is therefore a Cladostephus, with which 
0 it agrees in stem structure. I have therefore named his plant 
Cladosbapits sles ee the . “Sphacdara plumigera.” 
fasciculus is well mounted and arranged; and the specimens, 
although sometimes eres on zeit of their. extreme rarity, are 
well selected. 
Unper the title ‘ Colin Clout’s Calendar’ (Chatto & Windus), 
Mr. Grant Allen reprints a series of essays from the ‘St. James’s 
azette.’ ‘* The greater number of the papers are botanical, and 
hase says Mr. Allen, ‘‘I hope will be found to contain some new 
found more accurate than some of the facts upon t re 
based. Thus we read, ‘‘ Whenever you find a ee ng: trdaabe ly 
inconspicuous plant among these families—for example, Solomon’ ee 
Seal, with its small drooping sips ae blossoms—one i 
to find also that it is a bulbless annual’! This is “ new, Gait idk not 
true.” The essays, however, a very pleasant Taine 
‘Guesses at Purpose in Nature with especial Be tnitins to 
Plants,’ by W. Powell James, M.A. (8. P.C.K.), is a work which 
those, ‘who do not aizoeethen ‘accept the views treated by Mr. 
Grant Allen, will be glad to possess; it is carefully written, and 
contains much useful a tarniaean conveyed a pleasing manner. 
WE are glad to record the —— of a part (the 15th) 
of Baillon’s s admirable ‘ Dictionnaire de Botanique’ (Cycl—Dict.). 
Valuable as it is, its usefulness ‘will be seriously impaired unless 
some means of hastening its publication be found. It is just two 
years since part 14 was issued, and the first part sobeistad in 1876. 
MSLEY continues to make steady progress with the 
the ‘ Biologia pair an reall in the last part 
issued (in January) the Conifer@ are begu 
We have received Part x. of Mr. M‘ Ati s earefully-coloured 
‘Botanical Atlas’ (W. & A. K. Johnston), which contains plates 
devoted to Bladder Wrack and Tangle, Iceland Moss, Moss, and 
Mushroom and Red cobain 
Possessors of s ‘Garden’ will be grateful to Mr. 
Robinson for the ‘ gt “Index to the first twenty half-yearly 
volumes’ which has lately been issued. 
‘Children’s Flowers’ (Religious Tract see would form a 
suitable reading-book for quite young children 
