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late George Nicholson : see M. Buser's note in Exchange Club 

 Beport for 1891 (1892), p. 304. I possess a specimen from Glen 

 Clova, gathered by Mr. A. 0. Black, and given to me by Mr. F. J. 

 Hanbury. 1 also possess a specimen from the Kev. Eobert Wood, 

 of Cumberland, who said it was gathered on the mountains in 

 that county. This was not the record mentioned in " Notes from 

 the Eoyal Bot. Garden, Edinburgh," 1904, p. 108, which was Mr. 

 Bowman's; he always said that the plant brought by himself from 

 Gatesgarth Dale was A. alpina, which remained unchanged in his 

 garden. See also Prof. Trail's note (op. cit.). Now, after many 

 years, Mr. Marshall gives us confirmation of the Glen Sannox 

 station. — Arthur Bennett. 



Asplenium lanceolatum Huds. var. Sinelii (p. 338).— Mr. 

 Druce complains that we have misrepresented him by crediting 

 him with this name. We have looked up J. F. Eobinson's note 

 on which Mr. Druce's remarks are based, and cannot find that he 

 (Eobinson) published the plant as a variety. In Science Gossip 

 (1880, p. 148) the name appears as "Asplenium lanceolatum 

 (Sinelii) " both in the text and in the index; Eobinson indeed in 

 the text speaks of it as a variety but also refers to it as a form, 

 and the first combination of the names is that by Mr. Druce to 

 which we referred. We note that Mr. Druce says that only 

 a single plant was found; Eobinson speaks of "several roots," 

 but his notorious inaccuracy suggests doubt as to this in view of 

 the definite information from the finder, quoted by Mr. Druce. 

 We fail to see how the plant can be quoted otherwise than as 

 Asplenium lanceolatum var. Sinelii Druce. — Ed. Journ. Bot. 



REVIEWS. 



Toadstools and Mushrooms of the Countryside; a Pocket Guide 



to the larger Fungi. By Edward Step, F.L.S. With 8 



coloured plates and 132 illustrations from photographs. Fcap 



8vo, cl. gilt, pp. xvi. 143. Price 5s. net. Hutchinson & Co. 



There was certainly room for a new popular book on Fungi, 



and the publishers of this volume have done well to obtain the 



services of Mr. Edward Step, whose works (uniform with the 



present) on wild flowers and trees have already obtained a large 



circulation. The volume before us is more needed than was either 



of these, for there is a plethora of books about wild flowers, 



whereas fungi have never received much attention, although the 



large sale of the handy Guide to Soiverbys Models of Fungi 



published by the British Museum has shown that there was a 



public for something more extensive in the same direction. 



Mr. Step's descriptions are full and clear, but the attractive- 

 ness of his book is mainly due to its excellent illustrations from 

 photographs — the result, he tells us, of many years' accumulation. 

 We think, however, it would have been more useful both to the 

 student and to the general reader had it been prefaced with an 

 introduction dealing with the structure of fungi such as that 

 which is prefixed to the Museum Guide already mentioned, with 



