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globules aggregated in a crimson gelatinous mass^ soon dis- 

 charging their granules, becoming colourless and non-per- 

 sistent/^ 



The other members of this family, reported by Mr. Lees as 

 belonging to the Malvern district, are Coccochloris protuberans, 

 Spreng., and C. muscicola, Menegh. ; also Ulva crispa and U. 

 calophylla. These singular plants are dignified with as many 

 names or synonyms (surnames) as a Spanish grandee of the first 

 rank. 



Among the Funguses, a list of some of which are given as 

 occurring about Malvern, there is an account, with a figure, of a 

 new form, ? species, of Mitrula, found on a decaying Bramble 

 near Powick. Mycologists may be on the out-look for it. New 

 Fungi and new Alga, now that we have got good microscopes 

 cheap, may be as plentiful as brambles and damp walls and 

 muddy ponds are on the earth, or as planets and comets undis- 

 covered in the heavens. 



Species Filicum. Descriptions of all known Ferns, illustrated 

 with plates. By Sir Wm. J. Hooker, Director of the Royal 

 Gardens of Kew. London: William Pamplin, 45, Frith 

 Street, Soho Square. 



Parts VII. and VIII., or Vol. IL, Parts III. and IV., are now 

 before us, and the intentions of the author to publish Part IX. 

 are announced, an announcement which will be gratifying to all 

 who wish to see a complete work on this very extensive subject. 

 We only wish that the work had fallen into better hands than 

 ours. But we will do our best to present our readers with an 

 example of this eminent author's mode of dealing with our 

 British species, which form a portion of the species described 

 and illustrated in this elaborate work. 



First, Crypto gramma crispa, or Allosorus crispus, or Pteris 

 crispa, — for it has rejoiced in all these names since the reviewer 

 knew it ; and the learned author proposes to make a slight 

 emendation, only to change a final into r], Cryptogramme for 

 Cryptogramma ; from ypa/m/nT], a line, not ypafifia, a letter. This 

 change will mend the grammatical form : the former is feminine, 

 the latter neuter, and it has been usual to supply a feminine 



