Geology and Natural History. 311 
not reckoned, A rough and rapid enumeration gives 1066 Phenog- 
amous species, 59 Acrogenous Cryptogamia, 216 Anophytes, 1361 
Thallophytes, of which over eleven hundred are Fungi; so that 
the Cryptogamia amount to 1839. 
e may hope that the time is not far distant when we may 
have Manuals of all our Lower Cryptogamia, beginning with the 
Lichenes by Prof. Tuckerman. A. G. 
22. Serjania Sapindacearwn Genus monographice descriptum. 
Monographie der Sapindaceen-Gattung Serjania, Von L. R 
KOFER. Munich, 1875. 392, 4to. Published by the Royal 
Bavarian Academy.—To this memoir the quinquennial prize 
founded by the will of the elder DeCandolle has been awarded, 
and it well deserves it. It is one of the most elaborate, pains- 
taking, and apparently thorough pieces of monographical work 
in systematic botany that we have ever seen. Undertaken as it 
botany in Germany. The subject is too technical to call for a de- 
tailed review in this Journal, We merely note that 145 species of 
Serjania are characterized, described, and their synonymy com- 
hina exhibited. Nearly all extant materials appear to have 
een under the author’s hands. A. G. 
23. Zur Keimungsgeschichte der Charen, von A, pe Bary.— 
In the present paper, extracted from the Botanische Zeitung, Prof. 
Be Bary gives a detailed account of the manner in which the 
;, who finds 
that female plants isolated in closed glass vessels fruit abundantly. 
WwW. G. F 
24. Deseriptio: of a new Crustacean from the Water-lime 
. Prrr, (Bul- 
nr 
oup at Buffalo ; ue. R. Grore i. ul 
letin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Science, vol. iii, July, 
1875.)—The specimen shown exhibits an impress: f the ven- 
tral surface of a ne of Crustacean allied to ypterus 
n Bur: 
rygotus, for which the name Husarcus scorpionis is proposed. 
The cephalothoracie portion appears to be separate from the body, 
