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critical botanist are the voluminous (thirty-two volumes) unpub- 

 lished manuscripts of Gay, and the contents of his own herbarium, 

 to many of the specimens of which are attached interesting and 

 valuable critical notes. In searching among the manuscripts for 

 any details about British plants, I discovered an account of Gay's 

 visit to the Channel Islands in 1832, with a list of the plants 

 which he observed. With the exception of Lagasca's string of 

 absurdities and errors (about sixty species), it is the earliest and 

 first list of Channel Island plants since the eleven species supplied 

 by Sherard for Eay's Synopsis. I am extracting from Gay's MSS. 

 what may be of interest from the point of view of Lester's Fl. of 

 Jersey and Marquand's Fl. of Guernsey. — F. N. Williams. 



MiMULUS moschatus L. — On September 19th, 1911, I found 

 this in the Wood of Houghton, Alford, Aberdeenshire. It was 

 then in full flower, with slight smell. It is growing in various 

 places : in an old dyke on the wayside ; in a ditch for conducting 

 water ; and among the herbage in a wet or damp hollow. — Wm. 

 Wilson. 



Salicoenia lignosa Woods (see p. 179). — In September of 

 this year I found Salicornia lignosa at the Bouche d'Erquy, north 

 Brittany. This is a new record for France. Mr. H. W. Pugsley 

 recently sent me a specimen of it from South Devonshire. 

 S. lignosa is now known to occur in England (from Norfolk to 

 South Devonshire), Brittany, and Algeria. — C. E. Moss. 



CiRSiUM acaule X arvense in North Hants. — A plant of 

 this interesting hybrid is in Miss Palmer's herbarium. She 

 gathered it on Sutton Common, North Hants, v.-c. 12, September 

 7th, 1897. It is the Carduus Gihsoni H. C. Wats.— G. C. Druce. 



Erica ciliaris in Devon. — On the 30th of July I found this 

 plant in the parish of North Bovey, v.-c. 3. This is a new 

 county record for Devon. — K. M. Toms. 



REVIEWS. 



British Fungi, with a Chapter on Lichens. By George Massee, 

 with forty coloured plates by Ivy Massee. Bvo, cl., 551 pp. 

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In a short preface Mr. Massee tells us that " the primary 

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 of our indigenous mushrooms, toadstools, &e." No more com- 

 petent author could have undertaken such a task, and on every 

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The introductory chapter gives a general survey of mycology — 

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