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Besides numerous new records for the local area, the list enumerates 

 " twenty species and varieties added to the British flora. . . . 

 Conchocelis rosea is the type of a genus new to science." {Journal 

 of Botany, June.) 



List of Fungi, mostly Hymenomyeetes, found in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Roxburgh, and hitherto unrecorded from the 

 district of the (Berwickshire Field) Club. By Rev. David Paul, 

 M.A. — Fifteen species are enumerated, of which two appear not to 

 have been previously recorded from Scotland. {History of Berwick- 

 shire Naturalists' 1 Club, XIII. Part i. pp. 218-220.) 



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Supplement to Sowerby's English Botany (3rd Edition). By 

 N. E. Brown, A.L.S., and Arthur Bennett, F.L.S. (London : 

 George Bell and Sons.) 



British botanists will all welcome the appearance of a supple- 

 ment to the " English Botany." Though undoubtedly the most 

 complete existing work on the flora of our islands, the investigations 

 of the years that have passed since the publication of the earlier 

 volumes have seen a considerable number of species added to our 

 lists \ and the nomenclature requires to be brought into accord with 

 the conclusions reached by the specialists in the various groups. 

 The Supplement under review aims at bringing the whole work up 

 to date as regards both additions to our flora and corrections of 

 nomenclature. As yet the first part only has been issued, though 

 two other parts are said to be nearly ready for issue. Mr. Brown 

 has prepared these three parts, but his duties elsewhere do not 

 allow him time to complete the work. Mr. A. Bennett (to whose 

 unwearied labours we in Scotland are so much indebted for his 

 published " Additions to Topographical Botany ") has undertaken 

 to see to the remaining five or six parts of the Supplement — an 

 excellent guarantee of the thoroughness of the work. 



The Supplement will be found of great utility, though possibly 

 some of the changes of nomenclature will scarcely be followed very 

 willingly by some botanists. 



The first part includes from Ranunculacca to Celastraccce. (Orders 

 I-XXII), and is illustrated with six plates, of which five represent 

 additions during recent years to the Hritish list of (lowering plants. 



Unfortunately there appears to have been a considerable delay 

 in publishing Part I, after a great portion of it was printed off. It 

 is difficult on any other supposition to account for the length of the 

 Appendix of additional information at the end of the pan, which 

 might have been more conveniently intercalated in the text We 



