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Schizosporec, the Diatomes preceding the latter order, contrary 
to the usual mode of arrangement. In classifying the Diatomes 
the author has followed Grunow and in the Wostoes he has adopted 
Thuret’s classification. It is refreshing to see how the species of 
Kuetzing and others are united into more rational and comprehen- 
sible species. The second part of vol. ii, including the po 
by Stein and the third volume including the Fungi by Dr. 
Schreeter, are announced for 1879, 7. G 
1876: Report of the Botanist, Cuartes H. Prox; made to the 
Regents of the University, Jan., 1877. Published in Sept., 1878, 
these either new or previously undescribed. At the close of the 
Cookei Berkl., ZL. Crategi, L. proxima, possibly L. Klotzschii, 
Dedalea confragosa, and Trametes rubescens, are all forms of one 
Species, A sad account is given of the ravages of a beetle, 
Hylurgus rufipennis, among the Spruces in the Adirondack region. 
effective plate. Equally handsome and well executed is the next 
plate containing Aspidium fragrans and Phegopteris alpestris. 
The latter is one of the few subalpine species which are wanting 
in eastern North America and in the Rocky Mountains, but ex- 
tend on the western side far down the Sierra Nevada, California. 
Among others, Sir J. D. Hooker collected it on Mt. Shasta. One 
would hope that its “ fugitive indusium” might be fixed and the 
plant associated with Athyrium Filia-feemina, which it resembles 
inhabit. The next plate is devoted to delicate or pygmy subjects, 
Trichomanes radicans of Alabama, ete. (said to accord well with 
the original West Indian species even though the larger Irish 7 
speciosum may be different), and the lilliputian 7. Petersii. The 
latter would have made a good show if a fair tuft had been de- 
picted, in addition to the three or four frondlets. Schizwa pusilla 
(misspelled on the plate) is added, ina good figure, with faint and 
obscure analyses. An entire plate is well given to the Californian 
Aspidium munitum, of which the first figure represents a small 
form, and the second and third, varieties so peculiar that they 
would pass for distinct species. ‘Three marked species of Poly- 
podium fill the next plate, on which the noble P. takes 
ulgare. Tt must be that the 
