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Mycena, Plate C. fig-. 8; iYo/f/«er/, Plate CI. fig. 17; Galera, Plate 

 CII. fig. 24, and also appears to be allied to Genus III. Bolbttius, 

 which, however, is at once distinguished by its coloured spores. The 

 species figured is Jcjarlcns (Pscdliyrella) disseminatus, P. Spores 

 •0003" X -0002". 



{To he concluded in the next number.) 



SHOPT NOTES. 



G.ENTIANA CAMPESTRls, Limi. — Mr. Tucker, when recording re- 

 cently an Isle of Wight station for Gentlana campestris (p. 160), 

 speaks of having found his specimens on May 25, 1864, and I, to 

 my surprise, discovered, on May 17th last, plants of this Gentian 

 in flower in the neighbourhood of Plymouth. They occurred in two 

 enclosed peaty pastures, a ie,w miles from Plympton, on the borders 

 of Dartmoor, in spots where the vegetation showed that the surface 

 had not been broken for some years past, though a comparison with 

 the neighbouring unenclosed land proved it to be not in its original 

 state. In one of these pfistures I noticed seven specimens of the 

 Gentian, and these, with one exception, had each one or more flowers 

 open, and most of them had buds also. One had white flowers, and 

 furnished the only instance in which I have seen this variety in Devon. 

 In the other pastures were four specimens, all in flower. In the former 

 were many plants of Botrychmm Lunaria, Sw., and two of Orchis 

 Morio, L. The appearance of the Orchis there greatly surprised me, 

 as, about Plymouth, I had previously seen it only on limestone ; and 

 even on this soil it is very local and uncommon in south-west Devon. 

 Gentiana campestris is a rare plant in this district, as in addition to 

 the station given above, I have seen it in only two other localities ; 

 on Iloborough Down, and by the side of a road near Bickleigh. The 

 former of these was recorded as a station for it, more than forty years 

 ago, in Jones and Kingston's ' Flora Devoniensis,' and the latter I dis- 

 covered a few years since, but at both I have seen the plant only in 

 the autumn, and, on searcliing them (on May 19th last), could not dis- 

 cover a single specimen at either place. — T. P. A. Briggs. 



Viola Paillouxii, Jord. — I have for some time been of opinion 

 that the cornfield Pansy, of South Buckinghamshire, ditt'ered suffi- 

 ciently from Viola tricolor and F. arvensis, Murray, to be worthy of 



