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THE AMERICAN NATURALIST 



[Vol. XL 



Mrmoria.s dc la Real Aradentia de Ciencias y Artes de Barcelona. 



The tliird and concluding volume of Braithwaite's British Moss 

 Flora has recently appeared from Reeve's of London. 



A new Index Filicum, by Christensen, is being issued in fascicles 

 from the Hagerup press of Copenhagen. All of the pteridophyte 

 names published from 1753 to 1905 are included, the treatment being 

 much as in the Index Kewensis devoted to spermatophytes. 



An extensive paper on the anatomy of Acrostichvm aureum is pub- 

 lished by Ethel A. Thomas in The AVir Phytologist of October 25, 

 1905. " . 



A new fern {Polystichum krugii) from Porto Rico is described by 

 Muxon in the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, for 

 ( )( tober 17, 1905. 



Laing contributes a revised list of New Zealand seaweeds, and the 

 first i)art of an account of the Ceramiacepp of the island, to vol. 37 of 

 the Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute,— 

 which contains numerous other botanical papers of interest. 



A voluminous catalogue of the futiiri of the l^ow ( omitries, by the 

 uMicrable Oudemans, con.stitutes vol. 1 L> ut il,r ...ond Mction oflVr- 

 handrlivgen der Koninklijke Akadcmi, nn: II > h ,,.rl,u n of Amster- 



An account of Xor^^(•.•in^ I l.M.Miirm,; \u-^uu in Hhu and 



finished by Rostrup, has licci; -cpaiaidv iv-iicl i'n.in the ]' idt iishahs- 

 Selskahets' Skrifter of Chrisiiania, for 1904. 



