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BOTANISCHER JAHRESBERICHT. 
We have, on a previous occasion, called attention to this valuable 
work, of which we have recently received the first portion of the 
third volume, containing a digest of the Literature of Crjpto- 
gamia for the year 1875. Such a work as this must entail a large 
amount of labour in its production, and we can scarcely think 
remunerative. It is, nevertheless, of so much value, that we 
should fail in our duty were we not to urge upon our readers the 
claims it has for support, and at least to express a hope that 
Natural History Societies, Field Clubs, and Public Libraries will 
consider it indispensable. A record of all books, papers, pam- 
phlets, and articles communicated to journals during the year is 
catalogued, with a summary of their contents. These are classified 
according to subjects, and also according to countries. In many 
cases the characters of new species published during the year are 
also given, and, finally, there is a copious index, in which every 
species noticed in the volume is placed. It is a work which we do 
not believe would have been attempted out of Germany, and illus- 
trates favourably the patience and perse v^erance of our Teuton 
brethren. 
DANISH FIMICOLOUS FUNGI.* 
Professor Hansen has published in the “ Copenhagen Trans- 
actions ” an enumeration of Fungi of all genera found growing 
upon dung in Denmark. This is a work of 140 pages octavo, with 
six excellent plates ; although in Danish, there is also a summary in 
French, which occupies about thirty pages, and gives the essentials 
of the communication. The chief interest centres in the Asco- 
mycetes, and particularly in such genera as Ascoholus, Sordaria, 
and Sporormia (if the latter are to be considered genera). Amongst 
new species we note the following : — 
Ascoholus {Ascophanus') Holm- Sporormia pulchella, H. 
shjoldii, H. 
Melanospora fimicola, H. 
Melanospora aculeata, H. 
Eurotium stercorarium, H. 
Sphcerella Schumachei i, H. 
Sporormia gigantea, H, 
Sporormia putchra, H. 
Sordaria harhata, H. 
Sordaria insignis, H. 
Sordaria neglecta, H. 
Sordaria hirta, H. 
Sordaria similis, H. 
Sordaria dubia, H. 
Peziza Ripensis, H. 
Communications of this kind, accompanied by full descriptions 
and good illustrative figures, are of considerable value ; the only 
objection which can be urged against them is that that they are 
published in ‘‘Transactions,” which are practically inaccessible to 
the majority of workers in other countries. It would be an ad- 
vantage if authors could make arrangements whereby a limited 
number of copies could be reprinted separately, and pass into the 
* De Danske Gjedningssvampe (Fungi fimicoli Danici), by Emil. Ch. 
Hansen, Copenhagen, 1876. 
