158 CORRESPONDENCE. 
Floras, but which I believe to have been introduced into them merely on the 
strength of accidental garden specimens. And thus I have obtained materials 
for a nearer approximation towards an accurate Flora, distinguished into its 
genuine indigenous and adventitious cultivated or naturalized portions than at 
present we possess. 
The islands visited by us were those of São Vicente, St. Antão, St. Iago, 
Fogo, and Brava,—by far the most important of the group in every way,— 
omitting that of São Nicolio, as having been explored by us two years ago, and 
the eastern subordinate set of Sal, Boa Vista, and Maio, as unlikely to offer 
much not found in the others. The autumnal rains ens ee Laon: 
scanty, and the islands were consequently in scarcely 
dition for botanical purposes than we had found ee Ta years piri 
after the great drought of 1863. I am, indeed, convinced that a continued 
residence throughout the whole rainy season, i. e. from July to 
it at others, no very up or 
ted. 
I have consigned also to Dr. Gray, for the Museum, some interesting fishes, 
Crustacea, e&c.; and Mr. Wollaston, who accompanied us, is well satisfied with 
the result of his own and Mr. Gray's joint entomological researches. 
R. T. Lowe. 
Norton Fitzwarren, Taunton, Easter Monday, 1866. 
Dr. Gibelli on Saxicolar Verrucaris. 
In the April Hüiobor of the * Journal of Botany,’ you have noticed four new 
works on Lichens, by Professors Garovaglio and Gibelli. You state the con- 
clusion Dr. Gibelli has arrived at, is in substance that **all the saxicolar species 
( Tarii, whether with unilocular, bilocular, quadrilocular, or multilocular 
or muriform spores, are destitute of distinct paraphyses, and consequently her- 
maphrodite, ” ante, » 126 ; that is to say. ; they have asci, spores, and spermatia 
in ~~ MK ee thecium 
I don’t desire to - int oversy, but I think, for the benefit of work- 
men like eure in this peior of Þor. I ought to state em two saxi- 
colar Ve hydrela, Ach. (Ben Nevis), and V. mucosa, Wallbg. 
(N.E. coast of Ireland), which happen to be on my table at this momen both 
- i re destitute of paraphyses, and, according to 
E to be hermaphrodite They do, wies both possess radni yl 
e cece, d qi tly iz tá De = n2, 1 Poe MUS 
; x J e brutum E A T hne d 
THEOBALD JONES. 
ES Hornet Stet Dublin April 9, 1866. 
