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goats, dogs, land-tortoises, and other unclean beasts. I should men- 

 tion that this house claims half our yard, and has a verandah con- 

 tinuous with ours : and then you will understand how, on our return, 

 we found both yard and verandah befouled and worse than useless to 

 us. A few live plants, that we left in the verandah, under the charge 

 of a slave of Mr. Hislop's, he had the precaution to place in an out- 

 house which we have ; but there, for want of light and air, some of 

 them had died. Since then our live plants have stood in the same 

 outhouse, as near as possible to the window, kept wide open, and 

 would do very well were it not that the niggers and the fowls con- 

 tinue to enter and play sundry pranks with them." 



My extracts are not certainly very botanical, but they doubtless 

 convey an accurate idea of the disappointments and disagreeables 

 to which a collector in foreign lands is ever liable. 



Notice of the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History,^ No. 39, 



March, 1851. 



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This number contains but a single paper: this is intituled — 

 ' Notices of the British Fungi. By the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M.A., 

 F.L.S., and C. E. Broome, Esq.' 



The new species described are — Dendryphium curtum, found by 

 Mr. Ogilvie on dead stems of nettles at Dundee ; D. laxura, on dead 

 stems of Inula viscosa at King's Cliffe ; D, griseum, on dead nettle- 

 stems at King's Cliffe, in March, 1850 ; Rhinotrichum Bloxami, by 

 the Rev. Mr. Bloxam on dead wood at Twycross ; R. Thwaitesii, on 

 the bare soil at Leigh woods, Bristol, August 2, 1848; Fusisporium 

 bacilligerum, on leaves of Alaternus in the west of England ; F. rose- 

 olum, by Mr. Stephens on decayed potatoes at Bristol ; F. foeni, on 

 the cut surface of a hay-stalk [perhaps hay-stack, Ed. Phyt.] at Ape- 

 thope, Northamptonshire, in December, 1848 ; Peziza Babingtonii, 

 found on rotten wood in Grace Dieu Wood, Leicestershire, by the 

 Rev. Mr. Babington ; P. viridaria, on damp walls of a greenhouse at 

 King's Cliffe, in November and December, 1845 ; P. luteo-nitens, on 

 the bare ground at King's Cliffe ; P. apala, abundant on dead rushes 

 at Spye Park, Batheaston, in February, 1850; P. mutabilis, on the 

 leaves of Aira CKspitosa at Derry Hill, Wiltshire, in Feb., 1850 ; P. 

 Bloxami, found by the Rev. Mr. Bloxam on fallen branches at Twy- 

 cross ; P. nitidula, on the dead leaves of Aira csespitosa at Batheaston, 



