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was a very bad mistake; for, in the first place, Simblum is endospor- 

 ous, and, m the second, it can only be regarded as a stipitate Ileo- 

 dictyon, and hence must be relegated to the family Claihrei. 'The 

 genus Kalchbrennera is somewhat anomalous and appears to have lit- 

 tle affinity with any of the genera belonging to the three Friesian 

 families of the Phalloidei. Messrs. Wehvitsch and Currey, who de- 

 scribed the first species known, referred it the genus Lysurus, but an 

 mspection of the figure given by them, and of the beautiful colored 

 one given by Mr. Kalchbrenner, shows that those authors were un- 

 doubtedly mistaken. If a fourth family of the order is to be formed,' 

 XXv^ %tnyx% Kalchbrennera is the one, and the only one, to constitute it 

 until the discovery of other forms which are allied to it. 

 _ J" concluding a list of such genera and species as do not occur 

 in bchlechtendal s monograph, the author remarks: " As far as I have 

 been able to ascertam from the sources at my command, there are 60 

 species of Phalloidei known," although he regards it probable that a 

 few more species may have been described in periodicals to which he 

 has not had access The list includes the name of 15 species ; but, 

 further on, among the forms credited to Austraha, there occurs the 

 name of still another, which was omitted by Schlechtendal. To these 

 sixteen species we may add the following, which Mr. Kalchbrenner 



Rty^T "; ^''^i:.^'^^^^^'^^^'^^^"^^^^^^' ^^^k. (Java); P. truncatus, 

 ,,- Undia); HymejwpJiallusroseus, De Ces. (Borneo); Cynophallus 

 W^.7;.«. Zoning. (Java); Corynifes elegans, Mont. (Colombo); 

 Clathrusdehcatus,^.^^^,x, (Ceylon); Zafernea pusilla, B.& C. (Cuba 

 and Zy.f«r«^ ^r^^^^/, Berk. (Tasmania). \ )' 



/,Jy^^ geographical distribution of the order we notice that Coins 



tZ aT\ ^k- ^ ^''^;' ^' ^^^^S"^d to South America ; it was, how- 

 ever detected by Its authors in the vicinity of Toulon, France 



The new species, beautifully figured in colors, in the three" plates 

 accompanying Mr^ Kalchbrenner's paper are : Aalchbrennl": £^, 

 B^vk. A nthurus Woodti, MacOw.; A. Muellerianus, Kalchbr ■ Cv- 



ifrttiTiv •''''''If ^?'' ^°^'- ^^ *^^ ^^^t^°^ «f the Cynophallus 

 IS correctly given the plant can scarcely be referred to thai genus. 



Grevtllea, for June, contains: 'New British Fungi,' by M C 

 5^?,?'i T.^""^Vr E^^calyptus,' by M. C. Cooke and h! W Hark: 

 knFnnar"? Macowamani,' by Rev. C. Kalchbrenner; " 'Austral- 

 ian Fung,, byM. C. Cooke; and 'Mimicry in Fun-i ' by M C 



* HoL nf F • ^ ^^'f ^'i ^°'" J^^^' ^'- R°throck has an article on 

 Home and Foreign methods of Teaching Botany '; Dr Engelmann 



describes some new species of North American Pkn s- Mr C nTeck 



ofdolwrtr^^'^'^f^^^^^ 



ot doubling in the flowers of Epigaea repe,is- and several other cor- 

 respondents communicate notes of interest ^^^t;rai otner cor- 



InBedwtgia, for May. Dr. George Winter has some 'Notices of 



?ore"ach"us'"'l5fw^^'lJ""^^"^.J"^ 



to reach us. Dr. \\ inter, the editor, informs us that his addres<= from 



^^T'T' '°^P"'' ^S82, willbe Emilienstrasse, 18, Leipzif Wnv 

 whither he goes to continue the Exsiccati of the lat; Dr.^RfbenhS 



