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and of these above thirty were first established from Kew material 

 by Dr. Cooke, who paid special attention to this genus. Not a 

 siugle example, however, of a parasitic fungus, that has proved 

 to be destructive to plants, has been introduced to Europe through 

 Kew. 



The indigenous species of fungi belonging to the AijaricinecR — 

 probably due to a great extent to the absence of cattle in the 

 grouuds — are fewer than would be expected, with the following 

 notable exceptions. In the genus Russula fifty-two species have 

 been observed during the last ten years, out of a total of sixty-one 

 British species. The large size and brilliant colouring of most 

 species belonging to this genus render them very conspicuous objects 

 in the Arboretum during late summer and early autumn. Another 

 genus containing species of sufficient size and brilliancy of colour to 

 attract popular attention is Boletus, which numbers twenty-six 

 species. A fairly good collection of specimens of fungi, along with 

 models and drawings, are exhibited in No. 2 Museum. 



SHORT ^OTES. 



Rosa sepium Thuill. (R. agrestis Savi) in Oxfordshire. — In my 

 Flora of the county I recorded this plant on the authority of the 

 late Mr. W. Baxter, who found it on the Leys about a mile E. by N. 

 from Upper Hey ford (see Walker's Flora, 1834). The locality was 

 examined by me on two occasions, but I was unable to find the 

 rose, as the Leys was then under cultivation ; the ground has, 

 however, now regained something of its original character, and in 

 1894 Mr. Bertram Savile Ogle discovered several bushes of R. sepium 

 agreeing with Baxter's specimen, which we have still growing in 

 the Oxford Botanical Garden. Subsequently the Rev. W. Moyle 

 Rogers found two bushes near Beckley, and Sister Jane Frances 

 found the same rose in the hedge between Islip and Oddington. 

 This August I found a fine bush on the chalk escarpment near 

 Pyrton, which considerably extends the southern range of the 

 species in the county. — G. Claridge Druce. 



Plants of Bedfordshire. — In Aspley Woods I have noticed 

 Riibus p\jia)nidalis and R. pulcherrinuis, and by the stream forming 

 the county boundary which issues at the base of the chalk escarp- 

 ment between Eddlesborough and Dunstable true Carex flara occurs 

 in fine condition. By a mill near Leighton Buzzard some specimens'of 

 Brassica ehmcfata were seen. Near Leighton I liave also found Hiera- 

 ciunt sciophiluni and Spanfaniiim nei/lectiim. — G. Claridge Druce. 



Coronilla varia L. in Kent. — Mr. H. F. Plumptre has recently 

 sent me a specimen of this plant from near Goodneston Park, Dover, 

 where he has noticed it for the last three or four years at least, 

 growing in a rough wood on the chalk. He can assign no reason 

 for its introduction, unless it came with some young larch trees. — 

 G. Claridge Druce. 



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