Algæ ¹

Abstract

PROF. J. G. AGARDH has taken advantage of the leisure afforded by his retirement from the Chair of Botany which he has filled so successfully for many years at the Lund University, to compose another work on algology. This very interesting volume, which embodies the results of observations made by the Professor during a long course of years, on the Morphology of the Florideæ, has just appeared in the Transactions of the Scientific Academy of Stockholm. It is written in the Swedish language, and is illustrated by thirty-three coloured plates of rare and little-known algæ, and of microscopic details of many others, beautifully executed ty Swedish artists. It treats the subject in an exhaustive manner, as will be seen from a specification of the contents. The work is divided into three parts, each tpart being copiously illustrated by reference to the plates, and to descriptions of different genera and species.