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attention to a recently discovered fungus {Ht/grophoriis WynnicB, 

 Berk. (?), obtained at Bridlington, Yorkshire. — Exaruples of a moss 

 new to Britain, Aulacomnion turgidmn, were shown by Mr. E. 

 Holmes, who stated that they were collected in Yorkshire by Mr. 

 West, a Bradford amateur botanist, along with Mr. F. Arnold Lees. 

 Mr. Holmes drew a short running diagnosis and comparison 

 between the above and the common A. palustre. — Mr. C. B. Clarke 

 read a " Note on Gardenia turgida, Eoxb." He mentioned that 

 in books the calyx of males alone was described, w^hile all 

 herbaria specimens are dioecious, and males and females have been 

 referred by able botanists to different genera. The precise 

 characters, &c., of each sex were denoted and shortly commented 

 on by him. 



Dec. 19. — Prof. Allman, F.R.S., President, in the chair. — • 

 Messrs. F. M. Campbell, Hoddesdon, Herts ; J. Laurence Hamilton, 

 Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park ; and J. J. MacAndrew, Ivy Bridge, 

 South Devon, were elected Fellows of the Society. — The only 

 botanical paper read was a note on South Afi'ican Orchids by 

 Mr. W. Mansell-Weale. He points out that the supposed generic 

 characters of Mystacidimn and Polystachyon, founded on the " two- 

 legged" caudicles of the pollinia, are fallacious. 



Botantcal Nttos. 



The death is announced at Vienna, on November 22nd, of 

 Jacob Juratzka, the bryologist, set. 59. He was the author of 

 numerous papers, some of great value, on the Austrian Moss- 

 Flora, including that of the Tyrol, Bohemia, &c., as well as papers 

 on critical forms of Phanerogamia in Skofitz' ' Journal,' and the 

 publications of the Zoological-botanical Society of Vienna. 



Dr. J. Peyritsch, of Vienna, has been appointed Professor of 

 Botany in the University of Innsbruck. 



We hear that the Rev. M. J. Berkeley has presented his valu- 

 able collection to the Kew Herbarium. 



The herbarium of the late Baron Hausmann, of Bozen in 

 Tyrol, author of the well-known * Flora von Tirol,' which contains 

 nearly all the varieties of Tyrol, Switzerland, Lombardy and 

 South Germany, is for sale either as a whole or separately. Par- 

 ticulars may be obtained from Herr B. Stein, Garten-inspector of 

 the Botanical Garden, Innsbruck. 



After twenty-six years of disinterested work in conducting 

 the journal ' Hedwigia,' of which he was the founder, S. Raben- 

 horst, in consequence of age and sickness, is forced to abandon 

 the editorship. We understand that Dr. G. Winter will carry it 

 on, and it is hoped that Cryptogamists will generally continue 

 their support to this useful repertory. 



