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THE HYMENOMYCETES OF EUROPE. 
preparation of interminable synonymies. Children in all countries, 
and both sexes, are fond of playing with dolls ; it is a harmless 
amusement, and keeps them from further mischief. There is not 
a little analogy between those who amuse themselves with the 
wholesale dressing up of new genera, and the children who amuse 
themselves with dolls. 
NEW SPECIES OF RAYENELIA. 
Ravenelia verrucosa, Clce. Sf Ellis. 
Hypophylla. Uredosporis globosis, asperulis, luteis (16 //,). 
Teleutosporis in glomerulos hsemisphaericos congestis (80 /a). 
Glomerulis (sporis 20) stipitatis, cum lobulos (circa 8) hyalinos 
circumdatis. Teleutosporis cuneatis, ad apicem asperulis, atrofuscis, 
(20 /a diam.). 
On leaves of Lecania , sp. ? Mexico. (J. B. Ellis). 
It differs from R. stictica in not being sessile, in the hyaline 
lobules being larger and more conspicuous, and the warts smaller. 
This is the only species with which it could be confounded, and 
from this it seems to be distinct. 
MUSCOLOGIA GALLICA* 
This work, which has now reached its fifth part, is proposed to 
be completed in about ten or twelve parts, each part containing 32 
pages of letterpress and eight or ten plates. The plates remind 
us of those in Wilson’s “ Bryologia,” except that they are not so 
fine and distinct ; in fact, there is all the difference between plate- 
printing and lithography. Nevertheless, the work is likely to 
prove a most useful one, and we cannot help wishing that there 
was as much prospect of our own “ Moss Flora ” coming so soon 
to a termination as the present work. Of the letterpress, we must 
confess ourselves incompetent to pronounce a critical opinion, since 
“ mosses ” have never been our “ hobby ; ” but we have been in- 
formed by others, on whom we rely, that this portion of the work 
is satisfactorily done. When complete it will form a good, im- 
posing volume, and we doubt not will be found very valuable to 
the Bryological students of France, and be to them what Wilson’s 
has for many years been to us. The last part or two has been 
rather tardy, since the work commenced in 1884, and its author 
should be urged to a quicker pace. It surely cannot be necessary 
to spend six or seven years in passing a work of this kind through 
the press, which will be the case without greater expedition is 
used. 
* “ Muscologia Gallica, Descriptions et Figures des Mousses de France,” 
par T. Husnot. Parts 1 to 5. Roy 8vo., with plates. Paris (Savy), 1886* 
1887. 
