128 NEW PUBLICATIONS, 
Mr. Miers's paper on Yillaresia^ in this Journal, involves important in- 
quiries. From curiosity I examined Burst nop et alum ^ and concluded it to be 
near Cornus and Marlea, as it has the turbinate disk of the latter. Mr. Miers 
sajs, "we have jet no fact on record" to show that the dorsal raphe occurs 
in CornacecBs possibly he may not refer Aucuba to Cornace(2, I have figured 
it Ann. Kat. Hist. 2nd aer. vol. xi. Ilex^ Villaresia and Fkytocrene^ according 
to my notes, have two ovules, pendulous, with the raphe lateral, i, e. the raphes 
are between the two ovules. He refers to Villaresia as having a dorsal raphe ; 
if I could obtain a flower of his 2-celled species, I would re-examine it. My 
observations on Rhamnacem^ as far as they hare gone, agree with his, viz., 
the raphe is lateral ; when the ovules are two, the raphes are between them 
and in contact. 
Yours, etc., 
B. Clarke. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS 
Uust, Stniii, Mildew, and Mould. An Introduction to the Study of 
Microscopic Fungi. By M. C. Cooke. With nearly 300 figures 
by J. E. Sowerby. Loudon: Hardwicke. 1865. 
The few British botanists who sufficiently reverence the fathers, and 
value their labours as occasiouallv to consult their works, are familiar 
■with the third plate of Dillenius's edition of Bay's * Synopsis.' It con- 
tains the first, and that a most characteristic figure of Splachium spJ^e- 
ricum, Hedw. It has also a good drawing of Trichomanes radicans, Sw., 
the enlarged geographical distribution of which, in the British Isles, we 
have lately recorded in the pages of the 'Journal ' (Vol. L pp. 238, 293), 
but Dillenius, in 1724, had published it as ''found by Dr. Eichardson 
at Belbank, scarce half a mile from Binglcy." Sixty years or so after, 
Bolton gathered it in the same locality, but since then it has not been 
again observed there 1 'We may add that, beside the printed evidence 
of its former existence in this place, Professor Babington has an old 
specimen gathered there (Babington's 'Manual/ ed. v. p. 429), and 
Mr. Moore tells us that a specimen, collected by the original discoverer, 
exists in the Herbarium of the British Museum (Journ. of Bot.Vol. L 
p. 238). A ruder drawing of a ITymenophjllum. is given on the same 
plate, but in the text it is described as the young state of Trichomanes. 
The remaining figure is that which recalled the plate to our memory. 
It is a drawing of one of the leaves of the common Wood Anemone, the 
