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west end of Loch Leven. Caltha radicans, T. F. Forster, in Li?i?i. 

 Soc. Trans. 1807 ; recorded by G. Don, as found in 1790 by him- 

 self in a ditch near the farmhouse of Haltoun. Nuphar pumila, 

 Hoffm., discovered in 1809 by Mr. Borrer in a pool near the farm 

 of Corrie Chastel, at the foot of Ben Chonachan. Fiunaria densiflora, 

 D.C., 1S43, near Edinburgh. Draba rupestris, Br., "found by 

 James Dickson in 1789 on Ben Lawers." Erophila inflata, Hook, f. 

 1830, on Ben Lawers, above the Lake." 



A new British Hieraeium (If. anfractiforme). By Rev. Edward 

 S. Marshall, M.A., F.L.S. Description of a new species, found 

 beside " rocky subalpine streamlets of the Western Breadalbanes, on 

 granite and mica-slate, from 1400 to 1800 feet" (by Mr. Marshall 

 in Glen Etive and in Corrie Ardran near Crianlarich, by Dr. 

 Buchanan White on Ben Laoigh, and by Dr. W. A. Shoolbred 

 between Glen Lyon and Tyndrum). " Occasionally H. ci7ifradifo?'me 

 has a certain look of H. argenfeujn, Fr., from which, however, it 

 differs in many essential points." "It has been well tested by two 

 or three seasons' cultivation." (J. B., January.) 



Mieroehsete seruginea, sp. n. By E. A. Batters; — On 

 Rhodochorto?i Rothii, Nag., from Berwick-on-Tweed. It is " closely 

 allied to M. tenera, but differing from it in the greater thickness of 

 the filaments, the shortness of the articulation, and the marine 

 habitat." A diagnosis in Latin follows. 



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British Fungi (Phycomycetes and Ustilaginece). By George 

 Massee. (L. Reeve and Co. 1891. Cr. Svo. 232 pp. 8 plates.) 



Of making of many books there is no end ; yet on various great 

 groups of British Fungi there is not only room, but very great need, 

 for monographs. But to justify their existence such works must 

 give proofs of care in execution and of full acquaintance with the 

 subject treated of. It is to be regretted that the work under review- 

 is not such as might have been looked for from the author. The 

 inclusion of so widely different groups as the Mucoracecs^ the 

 /' ronosporecu, and the Ustilagineaz in the same small volume is 

 scarcely convenient. There scarcely seemed need to include the 

 Ustilaginece at all, in view of the recent excellent monograph on 

 them by Dr. Plowright; and, in fact, there is little, if any, real 

 addition made in the new work to our knowledge of this group in 

 Britain. 



There was room for a manual on the two other groups, had the 

 object of the book as stated in the preface "to bring up to date the 

 liritish species of Fungi included" been fulfilled. A pretty long 



