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respects. ‘he collection forms a valuable accession to the 
Herbarium. 
It may be added that an account of the early life of Mr. Ross 
is given in a work entitled ‘‘ Letters from the Kast,”’ by Henry 
James Ross, hee to 1857, and a A Fen imc oa notice in ** Orchid 
Review,’’ vol. D. 282-2 ile an account of the collection 
as it was erent by. Mrs, Boss fe given in ‘‘ Orchid Review,’ 
vol. xix. pp. 202- 205, and arden generally in the 
‘Gardeners’ Chronicle” for i012 com llth, p. 345). 
R.A. R. 
Mycological pao of Dr. J. W. Ellis.—About three years 
ago the Herbarium at Kew was enriched by the acquisition of 
the collection of specimens and drawings of fungi made by the 
late Mr. C. Crossland. This British collection has now received 
a further valuable addition in the mycological collection of the 
late Dr. J. W. Ellis, which has been acquired by purchase. The 
collection comprises nearly 1600 dried specimens, representative 
of all groups of fungi. It is especially rich, however, in micro- 
fungi, in which Dr. Ellis was keenly interested, and includes a 
series of well-mounted specimens of those of economic importance. 
There are in addition 330 microscopic slides, which form a wel- 
come addition to the Kew collections. 
Olearia dentata and O. tomentosa. —In the Flora Australi- 
ensis, vol. ili. p. 472, these two species were regarded by Bentham 
as being identical They are, however, quite different as here 
shown, and as one of them, O. tomentosa, is in cultivation, it 
seems ‘desirable “that their distinguishing features should be re- 
corde 
a. ta tata, Moench, was founded on Aster dentatus, 
Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 61 (1797), where it is well figured; whilst 
O. tomentosa was clearly depicted and deseribed by Sclirader in 
Wendl. Sert. Hann. 8, ¢. 24 (1798). 
ete ons Saas ra eE and synonymy of the two species are 
as fo 
Oo. stn Moench, Meth. Suppl. p. 254 (1802). 
olia ovata vel ovato-rotundata, sinuato-dentata vel crenata, 
involucri bracteae extra fere glabrae, apice breviter ciliatae. 
—Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. iii. p. 472. ot Aster de anaeas 
Siw —New South Wales: near ee Jackson, Gaudichaud ; 
Clowes 260; Fraser; Sieber 341; R. Brown 2230; Hooker; Herb. 
Forngth. Richmond Ri iver, C. Moore. tae Backhouse. 
O. dentata was first grown in this egal by Messrs. Lee & 
cep the Hammersmith Nurserymen, who raised it in the 
1793 from seeds collected in the aca tes oe Port Jackson, 
ies South Wales. Tt seems to have gone out of cultivation. 
