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exception of Kiitzing, would separate the Californian form as a 
distinct species. Should the Californian species of Agardh be 
accepted as genuine, it would go far to overturn the conclusion 
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to the readers of this Journal from the writings of Professor Gray. 
The present volume, except for the preface and occasional foot- 
notes, might be called a worthy sequel to those which have pre- 
ceded. But in the preface, Agardh not only denies the fertilizing 
action of the antherozoids of the Floridew, but even declares that 
i thing more than 
nature of the trichogyne, but the correctness o uret’s and 
ornet’s observations have been confirmed by numbers of algolo- 
gists on the sea shore, and the fertilization. of the more simple 
tories of Europe, and at least of one in this country. _W. . F. 
10. Notes Algologiques. Fascicule I. Par M. M. Ep, Borner et 
curing capable engravers, the plan was abandoned. Not, ow- 
ever, wholly relinquishing his plan, he had many less complicated 
drawings prepared, which, on his untimely death in the spring of 
oti were bequeathed to his friend and co-worker, Dr. Bornet, 
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tated Thuret’s articles on zodspores and antheridia in the Anna 
€ work is to algology what the Carpologia Fungorum Selecta 
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represent species referred to by Bornet in his iéme Note sur 
onidies des Lichens, or which were ; 
Morocco and determined by Thuret. The notes are a maces y 
€xposition of the reproduction in the Nostochinew and Floridew 
- are so replete with facts that a single reading 
© Sive a general notion of the contents. icula ; 
are the description of the reproduction of Calothrix confervicola, 
