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himself by saying " not circinatiis," and Mr. Lees thinks it a 

 " starved alpine state of trichophyllus.'" The Malvern Rose, found 

 by Mr. Towndrow (see Journ. Bot. 1883, 219), appears as " Rosa 

 sempervircits L., var. Melvinl Towndrow," without any description. 

 Mr. Baker "expects it is a strange stylosa form:" Mr. Lees "does 

 not see the difficulty in regarding this as a long-leaved form of the 

 Continental semper oirens," and " considers it a nurseryman's 

 variety and a stray." We suspect some confusion in the various 

 records given for Orchis incarnata. The " new station " given for 

 Dentaria will be found at page 185 of this Journal for 1882. 

 The circumstances of the addition of Mijosotis rupicola " to the 

 flora of the field botanists' classic county " have already been 

 given in our pages (Journ. Bot. 1875, p. 26). In connection with 

 the recent discussion in this Journal as to the position of the 

 Holyhead Senecio, it is interesting to note that a South Lincoln 

 form of S. campestn's is described as " tall, 18 inches to 2 feet high, 

 lower leaves spathulate on longish stalks, upper spathulate- 

 lanceolate, sessile, all cottony, most below, slightly decurrent, 

 slightly branched above, with from 5 to 10 long peduncled heads." 

 Mr. Lees has " not seen the early radical leaves, but in faces this 

 comes very close to the Holyhead plant." If Mr. Lees is correct 

 in believing that " the station whence the above variety was 

 gathered was the very same as that in which the Rev. G. S. 

 Streatfeild first gathered the plant " in 1873, we do not see why it 

 is included in the " New Locality List." Indeed we are strongly 

 of opinion that a careful examination of this list would greatly 

 diminish its extent. As the name of Mr. W. W. Reeves occurs 

 among the " deaths," it may be desirable, as it is pleasant, to say 

 that this statement is incorrect. 



Sylloge Fungorum omnium hucasque cognitorum. Digessit P. A. 

 Sagcardo. Vol. iii. Sphferopsides et Melanconieae. Patavii, 

 XV Decembris, 1884, sumptibus Auctoris typis Seminarii. 

 8vo, pp. 860. 



We are glad to announce the issue of the third volume of this 

 work, for although confessedly only a compilation, it is exceedingly 

 useful for collecting together into one focus all the stray scintilla- 

 tions of mycological genius in the direction of species -making, 

 which have hitherto been too much diffused to enlighten anyone, 

 save at the cost of great labour. 



The present volume of 860 pages is devoted to the SpJueropsidece 

 and MelanconiecB, including 4212 species, or at least so-called 

 species. The only drawback is that — of the majority at least — no 

 sane mycologist believes them to be autonomous species. In many 

 cases whole genera are known to be only imperfect conditions of 

 other Fungi ; hence we must be permitted to doubt whether it 

 would not have been Aviser to have referred them to their proper 

 species, and not have continued to perpetuate spurious genera or 

 species, such as (.'gti.spora, and many others. The present volume 

 will greatly assist any future reformer, who, instead of dealing with 

 names, will work at the things themselves, and transfer the im- 



