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Stirling in a come at the head of Balglass, -near Denny, Stirling; 

 by Mr. D. A. Boyd on subalpine rocks at Largs, Ayrshire ; and by 

 the Allt Dubh Ghalair, Glen Lochay, Perthshire, by F. G. H. H. 

 duriceps, n. sp. It is abundant on the miniature rocky cliffs of 

 some of the burns of Sutherlandshire. " It also occurred sparingly 

 near Kingshouse, Argyll ; and Mr. Marshall gathered it last year 

 from Ben Chaistel, near Tyndrum, and from Stob Garbh, West 

 Perth. Mr. Beeby has found it in Shetland, while specimens, which 

 I believe to be referable to this species, were sent me by the Rev. 

 W. R. Linton from Sneasdale, Uig, Skye." H. brcadalbanense, n. 

 sp. "This species, first gathered in 1888, appears to be confined 

 to the Breadalbane range proper." 



" Grevillea " has, under Mr. Massee's editorship, commenced its 

 twenty- first volume with the number for September 1892. As 

 already announced, it is continued with no material alteration in 

 form. The chief difference observable is in the greater prominence 

 assigned, under Mr. Batters' charge, to the Alga?. There would 

 have been cause for regret had the only journal in Britain devoted 

 to the Botany of Cryptogams been discontinued. 



British Fungus Flora. By GEORGE MASSEE. We read in the 

 September number of " Grevillea " as follows : " It is expected that 

 the first volume of the above work will be ready in August. It 

 contains a short introduction to the study of fungi, also descriptions, 

 accompanied by critical notes from various authors, of all British 

 species included in the following groups : Gastromycetes, Tremel- 

 lineas, Clavariae, Thelephorese, Hydneas, Polyporeas, and the black 

 and purple spored species of Agaricinas. The genera are 

 illustrated. The following numbers justify the appearance of a 

 new book on the subject. It is now twenty-one years since the 

 last complete British Mycological Flora was published Cooke's 

 "Handbook of British Fungi" the number of species therein 

 described being 2810, whereas the species now number 4895, and 

 are distributed as follows: Basidiomycetes, 1980; Ascomycetes, 

 1275; Sphaeropsideaa, 685; Hyphomycetes, 580; Uredineae and 

 Ustilagineae, 230; Phycomycetes, 145." Dr. Stevenson's "British 

 Fungi, Hymenomycetes," and Dr. Plowright's " British Uredineaa 

 and Ustilagineae " have within recent years given us excellent 

 monographs of these groups ; and Dr. Cooke in his " Handbook of 

 British Fungi, Revised Edition," of which the first volume has been 

 published as supplements to " Grevillea," has still more recently 

 revised the British Agaridni. Mr. Massee himself, in 1891, issued 

 a monograph of the British Phycomycetes and Ustilagineas, to 

 which we have already referred in this journal. In view of these 

 facts it may be questioned whether monographs of the remaining 

 groups of British Fungi would not be far more desirable than 

 another mycological flora, which, indeed, it is now scarcely within 



