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appcnrancos ; 4, aliens, casuals, and escapes. To this is added a table 

 ffivin^ lists of the common plants of Breconshire, Radnorshire, Sel- 

 kirkshire, and West Lancaster, four out of the nine counties for which 

 such lists were wanting at the date of the issue of Mr. Watson's 

 " Topoj^raphical Botany," to which book these reports form indeed 

 supplements. It is important to remember this in consulting them^ ; 

 thus the expression "new to the county" means that the species is 

 not recorded for it in " Topog. Bot." One of the most conspicuous S. 

 Pembrokeshire plants, i)/>7o/rt'.x^/s temiifolia, which has been recorded 

 in all lists for that district, thus comes to be entered in the first list. 

 There are many localities of interest and importance in the general 

 list, but still far too many previously known ones repeated {e.g., 

 several in Surrey). The locality given for Silene maritima seems to 

 be in Pembroke, not Carmarthen. Mr. P. A. Lees has failed, after 

 several careful searches, to find Polygala idiginosa on Cronkley Fell and 

 Viola arenaria on Widdy Bank Fell, and believes these two Teesdale 

 rarities to be probably extinct. PotentiUa norvegica is recorded as 

 " thoroughly naturalised " near Leeds. The Report is a very useful 

 contribution to the knowledge of the geography of British plants. 



Gerhard Rohlfs' travels in the Libyan Desert will be published in 

 parts, of which the first has appeared (Fischer, Cassel),^ and will be 

 complete in three volumes. The Botany of the expedition will be 

 treated by Ascherson, with some contributions from Schweinfurth. 



A "Flora of Clackmannan," by J. R. Drummond and T. Brum- 

 mond, is advertised as about to be published by Maclachlan and 

 Stewart, Edinburgh. The price has been fixed at 4s. 



The Fungus Show at Perth on Sept. 29th and 30th and 

 Oct. 1 st proved a very great success. Many of our best cryptogamists 

 attended, and the show of species is described as the most comprehensive 

 ever seen, some 150,000 specimens ; many were of great interest and 

 rarity, and there were several additions to the British flora, some of 

 which we hope to illustrate shortly in this Journal. A full account of the 

 meeting, by Mr. Worthington Smith, will be found in the *' Gardener's 

 Chronicle" for October 9. The show at Hereford was rendered 

 specially important by a valuable paper read by Mr. W. G. Smith on 

 the reproduction of Co2mmis radiatus^ illustrated by beautiful coloured 

 drawings, of large size, some of which are reproduced in " Gard. 

 Chronicle " for October 16th and 23rd, where the paper is also printed 

 in full. 



Dr. E. Regel has been appointed Director of the Imperial Garden 

 at St. Petersburg, in the place of M. de Trautvetter, who retires on 

 account of ill-health. 



The death is announced at Angers, at the age of seventy-two, of 

 Alexander Boreau, best known as the author of the useful " Flore du 

 Centre de la France," of which three editions have been published 

 (1840, 1849, 1857). M. Boreau was one of the school of " critical " 

 botanists, and his numerous papers are chiefly upon segregate forms and 

 their discrimination. 



The Societe Botanique de France has sufi'ered a very severe loss 

 by the death of M. W. de Schonefeld, who has filled with admirable 

 ability and zeal the post of secretary since the foundation of the 

 society in 1854. 



