SHORT NOTICES. 287 
(1862) ; Lepidostrobus anthemis “ Konig, i a Sager be L. radians 
Schimper ; and Annularia latifolia *‘ Dawson, sp.” should be A. 
Dawsoni Schimper. Perhaps the worst pomibls form of name is 
Stachannularia (Br wena tuberculata Sternb. sp. (p. 56), for S. 
tuberculata Weiss (1876); and surely Psilophyton must be neuter, 
so that P. Dechenianum Canrathe ers (1878) must be preferable to 
P. Dechenianus ‘‘ Géppert, sp.” The classification employed is 
only liable to slight sii Pa in the placing of perasnee ie between 
Equisetacee and Filicacea, for the subordination of Lycopodiacea to 
the latter class on p. 231 is obviously only one of she ted 
ee of typographical errors which there are in the w 
may be interesting to the too paige class of bolaniels 
who neglect — —- to note her ibes under whic 
Paleozoic Ferns are grouped. ~ are six: Sphenopteridee, 
se agdren Ne Sivegeertace: Odontopteridea, Pecopteridea, and 
Bsr die jee 
iadibtinen ts that we are oblivious of the very jade ee value 
of the work. The critical discussion of such ig ee as = bark of 
Subsahines, seca heterophylla, Ulodendron, Trig rpus, and 
Psilophyton see co to be as judicious as it is “atatodsail Is it too 
much to hope that we may some day have a chou Paleozoic 
Descriptive Flora on the lines of this Catalogue ? 
G. S. Bounerr. 
Messrs. Swan Sonnenscuein & Co. were not well advised when 
they bound three of their little Penny Collector's Handy-books 
into a shilling volume, the bulk of which is swelled by a catalogue 
e a fe 
and the fottennecse will hardly add to the author's credit. We 
have no evidence that “ parasitic species are most abundant as a 
rule on plants of weak vitality ;”’ and although we demur to the 
Suggestion that = ree should be ‘“ sinned alphabetically *s 
drawers,’ such an angement would be at least as useful as t 
antiquated alkentestion given. Mr. Peter Gray has written ae 
account of the Lichens, which forms the second book ; this 
contains a great deal of varied sisformiations, but the bibliography 
is extremely unsatisfactory. The third book, ‘‘ Mosses, Scale- 
mosses, and Liverworts,’ is also by Mr. Gray: but this is for the 
most part rendered unnecessary by Mr. Bagnall’s excellent little 
book, already noticed in these pages, issued by the same firm 
w Booxs. — F. Worn “Dis Pflanzen im alten Aigypten’ 
ips, Friedrich 8vo, sits 946, 74 ‘itt. _-H. Frayks, ‘ Flora 
eren Umgebung der Stadt Dortmund’ (Dortmund : 8vo, 
Pp. ix..149).—-M. Da inane d easaeanials y civil de las tas 
