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in January, 1850 ; P. straminenra, on the dead sheaths of wheat and 

 other Gramineoe at Fotheringhay, King's Cliffe, and at Rudloe, in Wilt- 

 shire, and on rushes at Oxton, Nottinghamshire ; P. cornea, on the 

 dead stalks of Carex paniculata, at Spye Park, in March, 1850 ; 

 Tuber biturainatura, in deep sand at Bowood, Wiltshire, in October, 

 1847; T. scleroneuron, at Bowood, Wiltshire, in October, 1847; 

 Onygena apus, on decaying bones under dead leaves and moss at 

 Bristol, in 1847 ; Patellaria citrina, on rose-twigs lying in a running 

 stream, at Penllergare, near Swansea, by Mr. Moggeridge, in April, 

 1847 ; Hypocrea farinosa, on fallen branches at Milton, Northamp- 

 tonshire, found by Mr. Henderson, and also at King's Cliffe ; Sphaeria 

 ochracea-pallida, on elm-branches, Rockingham Forest ; S. musci- 

 vora, on mosses upon the mud tops of walls in winter at King's Cliffe; 

 S. funicola, on decayed rope at King's Cliffe, in October, 1841 ; S. 

 papaverea, on rotten stumps at Batheaston, in March, 1850 ; and S. 

 appendiculosa, on dead twigs of bramble. 



1 know not what I can say more than I have already done in com- 

 mendation of the authors of this elaborate and highly scientific paper, 

 but 1 may perhaps be allowed to express my admiration of the dis- 

 interested conduct of the proprietors of the journal, who devote so 

 much space and incur so considerable a cost in making known to a 

 very limited circle of students these obscure and all but universally 

 neglected members of the vegetable kingdom. 



Notice of the 'Naturalist, a Popular Mo7ithlu Magazine, illustrative 

 of the Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdoms, icith numerous 

 Engravings. No. 1, March, 1851.' 



It is with gi'eat pleasure I introduce to my readers this new candi- 

 date for the favour and support of scientific naturalists. Great praise 

 is due to the projectors of a magazine got up in first-rate style as 

 regards paper and typography, and illustrated with no less than seven 

 engravings on wood, at the small charge of sixpence. This first 

 number is devoted solely to zoology, with the exception of the literary 

 notices of which I subjoin the titles; but the second number will 

 doubtless make amends in this respect, and our favourite science will 

 then obtain her fair allowance of space. It strikes me as possible 

 that the editor purposes to devote a number to each science in suc- 

 cession, and judiciously commences with the most important, zoology. 

 ' The notices arc these : — 



