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14. ('ercosporclla OxalUUs, coiiidiopliore.s Miid spores. 



1-3. Sporodesmiuni Duiriannm, s))ore. 



16. Achruonii/ces carpuieus, coiiidiophores and spores. 



17. J^aiDnmina Bommerice, group of spores and spore. 



18. Iladrotrichiini vlresonns, conidiojjliores and spores. 



10. Doassarisia LlinoscUce, a, spores ; h, two pairs of basidio- 



spores, conjugating. 

 20. Tllletia HjIcI, a, spore in surfaoj view ; h, spore in optical 



section. 



Thanks are due to the Endowment of Research Fund of the 

 Bu-iningham Natural History Society for defraying the cost of this 

 Pi.ite and of the figures in the text of previous articles. 



BlBLIOdUAPHICAL NOTES. 

 LXXX\^ RoBEKT Bkowx and • The Monthly Magazine.' 



In a footnote to a paper on " Henry Andrews and his ' Botanists' 

 Repository,' " published in this Journal for 1916 (pp. 2;;36-246) 

 reference is made to The Monthly Magazine for 1807-13, from the 

 " Monthly Botanical Reports" of which some information was cited. 

 "The author of these Reports," says the note, "was Samuel Frederick 

 Gray ; they present interesting features which 1 hope to make the 

 subject of a future note " ; that hope I now propose to fulfil. 



I cannot recall by what accident my attention was directed to the 

 Monthly Magazine nor for what purpose I consulted it; so far as I 

 am aware, its Botanical Reports have been almost entirely overlooked, 

 yet they contain much matter of interest, and furnish the solution of 

 a problem which has long been traditionally familiar and has hitherto 

 proved insoluble. The magazine itself — the full title is The Monthly 

 Magazine and British Begister — in its original form extended from 

 Feb. 1796 to Jan. 1825 ; its scope is indicated by the extended title 

 of the- continuation (1826-34) — '' of Literature, Sciences, and the 

 BeUes-Lettresy The botanical portion, with which alone this notice 

 is concerned, began in the number for July 1, 1807 (vol. xxiii.), and 

 continued at irregular and (towards the end) infrequent intervals 

 until May, 1815 ; it is entitled : " Report on the Progress and Dis- 

 coveries in the Science of Botany, for June, 1807 (to be continued)." 

 It begins abruptly — "The last month has afforded but little of novelty 

 in this science," and contains notices of the botanical periodicals 

 then current — the Botanical Magazine, Botanist's Bepository, 

 Baradisus Londinensis, and English Botany, with a reference to 

 Exotic Botany as having been " dormant for soiiie months past." 

 The Report abounds in misprints — " Bellendenther," for example, for 

 Bellenden Ker, — and the names of the genera are usually devoid of 

 capitals ; but it was evidently wi-itten by an expert botanist. But 

 neither to it noi- to any of the subsequent Repoi'ts is any name 

 attached, nor can 1 find anywhere in the volumes any indication of 

 authorship. 



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