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Cunningham. Three specimens of this had been collected in the west parts of 

 the straits of Magellan. No instance of plants of tliis or allied Orders with 

 double flowers are given in Masters's ' Vegetable Teratology.' The nonnal pe- 

 rianth of six leaves and the six stamens were represented by eighteen perianth- 

 leaves in several whorls on an elongated axis, and three perfect stamens, with 

 an additional one petaloid though antheriferous. The stigma was bifid instead 

 of in three divisions. 



At the Meeting on April 21st no botanical papers were read. 



Sotamtal ^^tos. 



NEW BOOKS, PEEIODICALS, ETC. 



Dr. Bull, of Hereford, has discovered Cortinarius russus, an Agaric new to 

 Britain, in several woods near that town. By the kindness of the Woolhope 

 Field-Club, we hope to be able to give a figure of the plant. 



Messrs. Grroombi'idge and Sons have commenced the publication, in monthly 

 numbers, price one shilling, of ' The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Tunbridge 

 Wells and Neighbourhood,' by Richard Deakin, M.D. The work will contain 

 more than 800 engravings, being, we presume, some of those of the ' Florigra- 

 pliia Britannica,' by the same author, which was pubHshed in numbers from 

 1837-1848. 



The tenth volume (Nos. 71-77) of Syme's ' English Botany' is just com- 

 pleted. It contains the Natural Orders JlrlocaulonacecB, JuncacecB, and Cype- 

 racea, and is illustrated by 139 plates (1546-1685). A few of the plates are 

 new, and the old ' English Botany' ones have throughout the Cyperacem been 

 supplemented by dissections of tlie fruit, mostly taken from drawings by Dr. 

 Carrington, of Eccles. But even with these additions, they are not up to the 

 requirements of the present day. The next volume wiU contain the Graminece, 

 and conclude the work. We hope that the publisher will in futvu-e give the 

 full number of plates in each number ; the last three have had an average of 

 14 each, instead of 24, as promised. 



Professor Baillon's ' Histoire des Plantes' is still continued. The two last 

 Orders monographed are the Pajnlioiiacea and ProteacecB. 



Mr. M. C. Cooke's ' Fourth Century of British Fungi' (dried specimens) is 

 just out, and contains several species new to Britain. 



Tlie herbarium of the late Professor von Mariius, which was offered to and 

 refused by the Bavarian Government, has been purchased by the Belgian Go- 

 vernment for a sum of £1200, to form the basis of a national collection, to be 

 located at Brussels. 



A compact and valuable little " Route-map and Index to the more interest- 

 ing objects in the Royal Gardens, Kew," is about to be issued, under official 

 sanction, by Messrs. Macmillan and Co. It contains an excellent map of the 

 gardens, and index to some of the more interesting plants ; and as it is to be 



