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Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschrift (June). — P. Magnus, ' Wie ist die Pilz- 

 .ttuhg Lmtadia jetztzu bezeichnen ? '— H. Braun, ' Ueber eimge 

 ritische Pflanzen der Flora von Niederosterreich.' — F. Kranzlin, 



' Orchidacere Papuame.'— J. Bornmiiller, 'Florula insulaa Thaso; 



A. v. Degen, 'Ueber einige orientalische Pflanzenarfcen.' — o. 



Freyn, ' Plantre novse orientales.* — F. Arnold, ' Lichenologische 

 Fragmente.' 



Trans. Linn. Soc. (2nd S. iv. pt. 1: May). — ' The Plants of 

 Milanji, Nyasa-land.* 



BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, dc. 

 Ix Flora (Heft 3, 1894) there is an interesting review by Dr. 

 Stizenberger of the Rev. J. M. Crombie's British Lichens. After 

 referrinetothe unique position of this country among European 

 ones in the matter of excellence of its lichenological literature 

 (Denmark excepted), Stizenberger proceeds to describe the book ^as 

 an indispensable one for lichenologists m all respects but the 

 anatomical details. The illustrations are commended, 

 with the exception of a few which appear to be on too reduced a 

 scale < ' The arran gement of the species within the genera is natural, 

 and in this respect diametrically opposed to Leighton's Lichen Flora, 

 in which the foundation of a natural system is spoken of with scorn 

 The descriptions of families, tribes, genera, species, varieties and 

 forms are thoroughly true, concise, and comprehensive and scarcely 

 in one of the similar works on lichens hitherto published are the 

 constitution of the layers, the fructifications (spores and spermo- 

 gonia), their structure and their parts, treated of with such fidelity, 

 minuteness and order as here." The book is further welcomed as 

 a guide to synonymy, and an interpretation especially of Dillemus is 

 trtr^ea ^r^ occurs in Ireland. Perhaps the highest 



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statement that " for the working out of the still missing volume on 

 Hchtns °n Rabenhorst's Kryptogarnen Flora, eagerly wished or by 

 every German botanist, Crombie's bookworms a^ most helpful — 



follower in the steps of the 

 other methods than those mm 

 bewails the hair-splitting and 

 occupy lichenologists, and hopes for better times. 



Thk second issue of the Journal of the Few Guild, the objects 



