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Uredo, Puccinia, and ZEcidium ; that many of them he believes to have 
traced through these modifications, and that Ceoma pinitorquum is no 
exception. A coloured plate accompanies this reprint, with figures of 
the stylospores and spores, with horizontal and transverse sections of 
a pustule, in which they are generated. To mycologists it is sufficient 
to indicate the name of the author of this paper to ensure its perusal. 
The elaborate minute examinations, and extensive experimental culture 
of parasitic Fungi, conducted by this gentleman during the past two or 
three years, give weight to all he writes on the subject, whilst the de- 
tails he has published in combination with the preparatory investiga- 
tions, have procured for him a lasting place in the foremost rank of 
living mycologists. 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
At the anniversary meeting of the Royal Botanic Society, €— Park, 
Professor Bentley in the chair, Mr. Sowerby, the secretary, read the report, 
which stated that the present number of Fellows was 2,334, of whom 137 had 
been elected during the past year. The receipts from all sources had been sa- 
tisfactory. As many as 20,972 tickets had been sold for the exhibitions. Al- 
though the expenditure had been increased materially by the repairs which had 
= been executed, the receipts were still in excess. The income had been £10,781, 
$6 
and the expenditure £8,059. 7s. The number of students was 163; the lec- 
tures had been well attended 
Professor Asa Gray, on d some of the contents of our periodical, 
says, “in the same useful Jour aide November, 1863, is a erR of a 
paper by Dr. Milde on the dec Ml Distribution of Equisetacee,” etc. 
We beg to state in explanation, that Dr. Milde's paper was not a aiid 
in the ordinary sense, but an original article sent to us direct by the author, 
and rendered by us into English. 
Mr. Erngst has lately made two ascents of the Silla de Caracas, Venezuela, 
"euni has = rewarded by a rich collection of plants. He intends making a 
third as 
S bow TY OF AMATEUR Borizere ” is the unassuming name of an asso- 
ciation formed in 1862, and now sufficiently consolidated to merit a brief 
n 
necessa 
to cause the work commenced to be carried towards practical application. 
The Society, though thus established for a fixed purpose, is open to other 
