80 NEW SPECIES OF PHANEROGAMOUS PLANTS. 



is correctly pointed out with a figure in Dresser's ' Elements of Botany ' 

 (p. 70, fig. 72). Other examples of an indefinite rhizome are supplied by 

 Menyanthes trifoliata and Butotnits timheUatus. St. Hilaire (' jMorphologie 

 Yegetale ') gives Scirpns palnsfi-is and mnlticaidis, but it seems probable 

 that the Cyperacece have all definite rhizomes as Avell as Juncea: and 

 grasses. However, the underground economy of plants is an almost 

 untouched subject in this country, although every collecting botanist 

 might contribute something to our knowledge by the dissection and study 

 of promising specimens. — W. T. Thiselton Dyer. 



Can any botanist allow me the examination of a specimen of Opegrapha 

 calcarea, Turn. (Eng. Bot. 1790), authenticated by Mr. Turner himself? 

 None such exists in the Turner herbarium, Eorrer herbarium, nor 

 Sowerby herbarium at Kew and the British Museum. — W. A. Leighton. 



Krempelhuber, in his * Geschichte und Litteratur der Lichenologie,' 

 vol. ii. p. 507, refers LicheH terrestris minimus fiiscns of Kay's ' Synopsis,' 

 2nd ed. App. p. 331, to Obryzum cornicnlntum. Wall. Can any one who 

 has examined Ilay's herbarium in British Museum inform me whether this 

 is correct, or are the specimens referable to Leptoyium palmatum, Mut. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1635)?— W. A. Leighton. 



In Buddie's herbarium at the British Museum, vol. cxiv. fol. 8. n. 3, is 

 an authentic specimen, labelled " Lichen terrestris minimus fnscus, Doody, 

 in Appendix Hay Syn., Bobart Hist. Oxon. part 3. sect. 15. t. 7. f. 4. 

 R. suppl. 48." It seems to be rather a state of Leptogium simiatum thati 

 o^ L . palmatum. At all events the specimen is infertile, and certainly 

 affords no warrant for the inference that it is Obryzum corniculatmn, Wallr. 

 — J. M. Crombie. 



Reports* 



NEW SPECIES OE PHANEROGAMOUS PLANTS PUBLISHED 

 IN GREAT BRITAIN DURING THE YEAR 1870. 



{Continued from p. 61.) 



Drimta Burchellii, Baiter {Liliacea;) ; folia synanthia, carnoso- 

 herbacea, lorato-lanceolata, glabra, 7-8 poll, longa, 1 poll, lata ; scapus 

 foliis suba?quans ; raceraus 8-9 poll, longus, 1 poll, latus, 60-1 00-florus; 

 pedicelli erecto-patentes, 2-3 lin. longi, bracteis linearibus subrequantes ; 

 perigonium 5-6 lin. longum, laciniis tubo triple longioribus. C. B. S. — 

 BurcJtell, 4769 ! Zeyher, 754 \— Appendix, Ref. Bot. p. 2. 



D. ROBUSTA, Baker; bulbo solitario hypogseo, foliis 6-9 erectis synan- 

 thiis lorato-lanceolatis tripedalibus glabris acutis, carnoso-herbaceis ira- 

 maculatis, scapo erecto tereti stricto tripedali, racemo subpedali modice 

 laxo, pedicellis floribus cernuis et bracteis lanceolato-acuminatis subae- 

 quantibus, perigonio extrorsum viridi intus piirpureo tincto, laciniis ligu- 

 latis cucullatis tubo campanulato 3-4-plo longioribus, filamentis linearibus 

 conniventibus laciniis paullo brevioribus, ovarii loculis multiovulatis. — 

 Hab. Cape Colony, Hort. Saunders, from Mr. Cooper. — Ref. Bot. t. 190. 



Drimiopsis minor, Baker (Liliaceo') ; bulbo globoso tertio supcriore 



