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Myxopnycez. 
. Dicuorsarix Norpsteptu Born. et Flah. Hab. Rocks above 
Lyn pris N. Wales 
2. HapanosrpHon intricatus West. Hab. Moel Siabod; Llyn- 
y-cwm-ffynon ; Glyder Fach, at 2200 ft., N. Wales 
93. H. uipernicus West & G. 8. West. Hab. Capel Curig, 
N. Wales; near Senens, Cornwall. 
94. Cnroococcus cicanteus West. Hab. Moel Siabod, N. Wales. 
Description oF Prates 446-448. 
ate 446,—Figs. 1-9. Debarya desmidioides, D, Bt .» xX 520. 10. Penium 
obbnpuin De Bary var. cylindricum, var. n., x 520. 11. Roya gee ne sp. n., 
x - 12. Cosmarium quadrimamillatum, sp.n x 52 0. 13. Staurastrum 
echinodermum, sp.n., X 520. 14-17. Conferva affinis Kitz, nee ray 18-21. C. 
obsoleta, sp.n., X 520. 22-23. Bumilleria pumila, sp.n., X 4 
Puate i ineiotats neglecta West and G. nA West, x 520; 
1 and 2 are only outline drawings, ows the Sa of spor 
5 is part of a single family in sedaioe: 7-10. Chlor aobonys Sejulabls (West) 
—— = 520. 11-13. Uronema confervicolum Lagerh., x 520. 
—Figs. 1-4. zone e@tophora lamellosa, Pas et sp.n., x 520. 
5. Cimechasrs comosa Klebahn, x 
NOTES ON MYRICACEA. 
By A. B. Renptz, M.A., D.Sc. 
Tue last volume (xxxii.) of the Mémoires de la Société Nationale 
des Sciences Naturelles, dc., de Cherbourg is, except for a brief 
necrologic notice, entirely botanical. M. J. Cardot feats an 
important paper, embodying the results of his anatomical researches 
on the Leuco at bested and there is a short note on Ribes triste hose by 
. HE. de ezewski. But the ema yg of the volume is 
The last systematic account of the family is rags by Casimir 
De Candolle in De Candolle’s Prodromus (vol. xvi. pl. 2), which 
appeared in 1864. M. De Candolle’s ar punigeiiet ‘includes three 
genera: Myrica, Leitneria, and Clarisia; the two last have since 
been vodgtiiead as of other “affinities, and the fa mily, both in the 
renera on ag ee of Bentham and Hooker, and in the Pflanzen- 
ever, fale cimgeres ood genera distinct 
species the remarkable North American M. asplenifolia ie and the 
sweet gale, M. Gale L., with a few closely allied species. " 
