44 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
and were all in full fruit—each preserving its respective 
character; a circumstance scarcely consistent with the idea. 
you have suggested, that many of the supposed species are j 
mere varieties." 
We are favoured by H. O. Stephens, Esq., of Bristol, j 
with two rare Fungi, one of them entirely new to Britain. j 
1. Polyporus nitidus; effusus confluens flavus, in ambitu 
sterilis sublobatus pallidior, poris rectis subrotundis. Fries, 
Syst. Mycol. 1. p. 379. Boletus nitidus. Pers. Obs. Mäe, 
2. p. 15. p. 4. f. 1 : 
Hab. On the decaying bark of trees, near Bristol. H. O.' 
Stephens, Esq. 
Although not hitherto found in Britain, the Rev. Mr. 
Berkeley informs Mr. Stephens that he possesses specimens | 
from British Guiana. 
2. Spheria lateritia. Fries.— Berkeley in Hook. Brit. Fl. 
v. 2. p. 238. Merulius helvelloides, Sow. Brit. Fung. p. 402. 
Hab. Infests the gills of Agaricus ciliciocides, about 
Bristol. H. O. Stephens, Esq. 
Mr. Berkeley, in describing this parasite for the second 
volume of the British Flora, was obliged to rest on the | 
authority of Fries for the right determination of the plant of | 
Sowerby, of which no Specimens were preserved, probably 
on account of the rapid decomposition of the plant. In Mr. 
Stephens’ specimens they are remarkably well preserved, 
forming a substance between gelatinous and horny on the 
gills of the Agaric. 
ENDLICHER’”S Genera Plantarum secundum Ordines 
Naturales disposita. 
This most important and laborious work is brought to its 
termination, and a complete Index is given of the whole 
contents. Exclusive of the Appendix, and of the Supple- 
ment, the number of Genera, including the Fossil Flora, 
described, is 6838; of these 703 are Acotyledonous: 1060 ` 
are Monocotyledonous, and the remainder (5075) are Dicoty- 
ledonous. A more valuable publication to the scientific d 
