969 



Agaricus disseminatus 



coraatus 



micaceus 



cinereus 



niveus 



plicatilis 

 '' ephemerus 



glutinosus 



rutilus 



*Agaricus elatus Agaricus Georgii 



fastibilis * carapestris 



flavidus praecox 



flocculosus semiglobatus 



* rimosus sBruginosus 



geophyllus lachrymabundus 



tener lateritius 



melinoides fascicularis 



involutus stipatus 



variabilis semiovatus 



Wm. Dawson ; Hitchin, February 23, 1844. 



473, Note on the Meetings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 

 The Edinburgh Botanical Society does continue its meetings, and has 

 had a constant supply of valuable papers. The 3rd part of the Trans- 

 actions is now printing at Edinburgh, and will conclude the first vo- 

 lume. The commencement of Vol. 2 is also in the press, and will be 

 published in a kw months. It will contain papers fully equal to those 

 contained in the former parts. — C. C. Babington ; St. John's Coll. 

 Cambridge, March 5, 1844. 



[An apology is due to Mr. Babington for the omission of the above note from our 

 April No. ; the omission was purely accidental, the letter from which it is an extract 

 having been mislaid. The note refers to an observation on the wrapper of the March 

 No., and is satisfactory inasmuch as it shows that the meetings of the Edinburgh Soci- 

 ety are still held ; but it does not explain why we have not been favoured with the re- 

 ports of proceedings at any of the meetings held during the present session. — Ed.'] 



474. A Word on Worcestershire Botany. I observe reported in 

 the February No. (Phytol. 875), a notice of a botanical excursion by 

 Mr. S. P. Woodward, in Warwickshire, Worcestershire, &c., which 

 seems to call for a few remarks. I have nothing to say against the 

 Irish observations, where, sensibly enough, Mr. W. says he " took Mr. 

 Newman's 'Irish Notes' in his hand," and had Dr. Taylor as a guide. 

 Now if he had acted on the same principle throughout his journey, 

 surely his botanical notes would not have been so meager respecting 

 Worcestershire, more especially as he was near good sporting-covers, 

 had he but known it. If a botanist, professedly travelling for scien- 

 tific purposes, will make no enquiries, and take no note as to what 

 has been previously done in the district he is reviewing, how can he 

 expect that his nose only will guide him to the most favourable loca- 

 lities ? I mention this as a hint to all collecting botanists, and not 

 only to Mr. W. This gentleman states that he spent a week in Wor- 

 cestershire, but it " afforded him very little scope for botanizing, the 

 interest of the country being chiefly geological." He mentions being 

 at Kidderminster, where the returns were nil ; but why not have pro- 



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