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nate in the letter-press, the other lower SE et rs tod _— 
share of attention. The characters of the Fungi des 
f th 
the State of New York, are here reproduced. A series of articles 
by the veteran mycologist mish wee describing North American 
Fungi, begins i in the thir n fact, A Cr 
latter now published relates mainly to the Alsinew of the 
World, from Mexico southward, and is edited by Dr. Garcke. It 
is seldom wise to print posthumous manuscript which is not m8 
completed by the author. For instance, Lastarriwa o 
here included in the MUecebree or Paro nychiec, with the sea 
that, although Remy, with all the characters before him, had 
referred the genus to the Polygonacew, Mr. Bentham had cor- 
rectly transferred it to the former order, and had even been antici- 
pated by Kunze and ~~ ss.) by Kunth. If Rohrbach, and still 
more, Bentham, had really noticed the orthotropous ovule and 
Seed, , they could hardly fave failed to see the Polygonaceous ee 
apes The genus, as we have elsewhere indicated, is as it were 
& Chorieunite without . distinct gamophyllous involuere, “but 
with perianth imitati 
epg DeCandolle in eee ser bsoper publishes careers 
o his 
w Piperace ich have notice said e the psc 
tation = that neve: in the pi iparese ay It re ns W 
ops. olanderi,” from California, —_— on s sodiaeche Frio ee 
and this abe vol. 18, part i, gh index lees: ec: synopsis 
of all the known Ameri n species is a great he p. Fascicle 58, 
which completes the sistant part of vol. - » ea oe Phyto- 
remarks agin Caspary) that in all the pentamerous species of 
a the second te faces oe axis, while in Aldrovranda the 
ird 
ond superposed to the enol D. intermedia cs e., D. longifolia 
L., var. Americana) extends to Brazil, where D. graminifolia 
represents our northern D. filiformis. Fascicle 59 is a very t 
ne; it contains only the isetacece, which were elaborated = 
the late Prof. Milde, sind the two sheets were re printed more t 
