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Kleeberg; The formation and transportation of carbohydrates in 
foliage leaves, by A. F. W. Schimper; Journal of the fifty-eighth 
meeting of German naturalists and physicians in Strassburg. 
In Flora the more important recent articles are lichenological 
contributions, by Dr. J. Miller; Contributions to our knowledge 
of the development and the anatomical structure of the fruit- 
leaves (carpophylls) of Cupressineze and the placente of Abie- 
inex, by Arno Kramer; and the continuation of H. G. Reichen- 
bach’s Comoren Orchids. In Kramer’s paper, just referred to, the 
conclusion is reached that the female cone of the Abietinez is a 
single flower and not an inflorescence. The scale is regarded as 
a placenta, and begins its development as an axillary outgrowth 
from the axils of a fruit-leaf. In the Deutsche botanische Monats- 
schrift Paul Richter and Dr. F. Hauck, the well-known German 
algologist, announce the early appearance of the first fascicles of 
a distribution of algæ under the title of “ Phycotheca Universalis.” 
Each fascicle is to contain fifty numbers, and will be sold for six- 
teen to eighteen marks ($3.81 to $4.29). Intending subscribers 
may correspond with Ed. Kummer, the well-known Leipzig 
bookseller. In the July-August number of Hedwigia Profes- 
sor Oudemans describes a new species of Puccinia occurring on 
Veronica anagallis in Holland, and to which he gives the name of 
Puccinia veronice-anagallidis. It is to be looked for in this coun- 
try—The September-October number of the same journal con- 
tains a Contribution to the mycologic flora of Missouri, by Dr. 
G. Winter and C. H. Demetrio. In all 350 species are enumer- 
ated, many of which are described as new. Among the latter the 
most interesting are Æcidium cerasti on Cerastium nutans, Diatrype 
roseola on dry branches, of Quercus tinctoria, Didymospharia phylt- 
logena on fallen leaves of Lirrodendron tulipifera, Spherelladesmedu ` 
on languishing leaves of Desmodium canescens, besides many 
‘Fungi Imperfecti” of the genera Cercospora, Phyllosticta, Sep- 
toria, etc——M. C. Cooke contributes to the December Grevillea 
Papers on New British Fungi, Fungi of the Malayan peninsula, 
Valsa vitis again, Synopsis Pyrenomycetum, and British Sphe- 
ropsidez. The most important paper in the Journal of Botany 
for November is F. N. Williams’ Enumeration of the species and 
varieties of the genus Dianthus. In all 235 species are cata- 
logued, of which nine are described as new to science. Lit. 
