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paper, " The Known Plants of Liberia," in Sir H. H. Johnston's 

 Liberia, vol. ii„ pp. 570-668 (with numerous illustrations by Miss 

 M. Smith). A list of Dawe's Uganda collection was published in 

 that gentleman's official " Report on a Botanical Mission through 

 the Forest Districts of IJuddu and the Western Nile Provinces of 

 the Uganda Protectorate " (Parliamentary Blue Book, Cd. 2904), 

 and the new species collected by him were described in "Plantae 

 Daweanae in Uganda lectae " bv Dr. 0. Stapf in collaboration 

 with T. A. Sprague, R. A. Bolfe, C. B. Clarke, M. T. Dawe, and 

 C. H. Wright (Jpurn. Linn. Soc, xxxvii., pp. 495-544, tt. 21 and 

 22). Lieut.-Col. Appleton's, Dr. Drake-Brockman's and Mrs. 

 Lort-Phillip's Somaliland collections were particularly rich in 

 Gramineae and enabled Dr. Stapf to give a general account of the 

 Grass Flora of Somaliland {Kew Bulletin, 1907, pp. 203-228). 

 Finally a paper on the Flora of Northern Nigeria is in preparation, 

 based to a great extent on the collections from that country 

 enumerated in the above list. 



^ The lower Cryptogams (Mosses, Liverworts, Algae, Lichens, 

 Fungi) are not included in the figures given, for the simple reason 

 that they have been almost completely neglected b\ fche collectors ; 

 but it is to be hoped that attention will in the future be paid 

 to these plants, the more so as they are, in most cases, easy to 

 collect. It should not be forgotten that they form a very 

 important part of the vegetation, and the flora of no country can 

 be considered properly explored without their being included. 



XXXVIII.-ADDITIONS TO THE WILD FAUNA AND 

 FLORA OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, 



KEW : IV 



NEW 



of Fung 



(With Plate.) 



G. Massbh. 



ssarv to make 



/ 



Gardens 



pp. 4b, 47. To that list it is now necessary to add the species 

 • numerated below. 



Agaricacear. 



Collybia retigera, Bvemd. On a dead beech stump, Q 



Cottage Grounds, A. I). Cotton. 



been rec 



orded 



from the New Forest. The surface of the pileus is ornamented 

 with irregularly anastomosing, raised veins or ridges. 



Pleurotus atrocoeruleus, Fries. On a decaying beech trunk, 

 Queen's Cottage Grounds, G. Nicholson. 



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