SOME BEAZILIAX PLANTS 223 



I\io de Janeiro, sea-level, n. 9 ; on rocks in gorge south of Praia de 

 Leblond, Eio de Janeiro, sea-level, n. 14 ; in depth of rain-forest 

 below Vista Chineza, near Kio de Janeiro, 300 ft,, n. 10. 



-P. Catharine Langsd. & Fisch. Below trees on resting^a, Praia de 

 Leblond, Rio de Janeiro, sea-level, n. 11. 



P. cultratum Willd. Beside small stream in dripping rain-forest, 

 Alto da Serra, E. Sao Paulo, 2600 ft., nn. 3, 132. 



P. decurrens Eaddi (n. 19) and P, loriceum L. (n. 16). In 

 depth of rain-forest on Monte Coreovado, Rio de Janeiro, loOO ft. 



P.frajcinifoUum Jactj. In deprh of rain-forest at Alto da Sen-a, 

 E. Sao Paulo, 2600 ft., n. 4. 



P. lejridopteris (Langsd. & Fisch.) Kze. On rocks in clearing 

 through forest, Serra dos Orgaos, below Therezopolis, 3500 ft., n. 7. 



P. 'plumula H. B. Willd. On walls, Serra below Petropolis, 

 2000 ft., n. 5 ; on walls, Serra dos Orgaos, Therezopolis, 4000 ft., 

 no. 6. 



P. poh/poiUoldes (L.) Hitchcock. On bases of Royal Pahns 

 {Oreodoxa oltracea Mart.) in Jardim Botanico, Rio de Janeiro, n. 13. 



P. serrulatum (Sw.) Mett. On rocks in bed of stream, Alto da 

 Boa Vista, near Rio de Janeiro, 2000 ft., n. 206 ; on clay in bed of 

 stream in rain-forest, Alto da Sen-a, E. Sao Paulo, 2600 ft., n. 8. 



Leptochilus guianeiisis (Aublet) C. Chr. Climber on tree in 

 rain-forest below Vista Chineza, near Rio de Janeiro, 1000 ft., n. 213. 



Adiantopsis radiata (L.) Fee. In rain-forest, beside aqueduct 

 from Paineiras, Monte Coreovado, Rio de Janeiro, 1500 ft., n. 215. 



Ljjcopodium repnis Sw. (nn. 204, 242) and L. cermnim L. 

 (n. 205). On banks by. roadside in forest, Alto da Boa Vista, near 

 Rio de Janeiro, 1500 ft. 



L. clavatum L. In rain-forest at Alto da Serra, E. Sao Paulo, 

 2600 ft., n. 219 ; on dtbris in cutthig at Meio da Serra, below Petro- 

 polis, 1500 ft., n. 221. 



L. complanatum L. On unshaded bank by roadside, Cantareira, 

 near Sao Paulo, 3000 ft, n. 222. 



L. paradoxum Mart. Creeping in marsh at Sant' Anna, Sao 

 Paulo, 3000 ft., n. 220. 



AzoUa caroliniana AVilld. On margin of Lagoa de Rodrigo 

 Freitas, Rio de Janeiro, sea-level, n, 245, 



GEORGE EDWARD MASSEE. 



(1850-1917.) 



Geoege Edwaed Massee, who ranks with Berkeley and Cooke as 

 one of the makers of British mycology, died at Sevenoaks on February 

 16th, succumbing to an attack of influenza, and was buried at Riclnnond, 

 Surrey, He was born at Scampston, a hamlet in East Yorkshire, on 

 December 20th, 1850, and educated at a private school. It was 

 intended that he should follow the occupation of his father and 

 become a farmer, and it was while helping on the farm that he 

 became interested in wild flowers and in the larger fungi, and drew 

 and painted tliem. But, according to his own statement, he did very 



