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Pticciiiia oblongata. On L. cani- 



Nectria coccinea. [pestvis. 



Hypoxylon coccineitm. 



Eutypa spinosa. 



Diapovthe vostellata. 



Soi'dai'ia ciirviila. 



Raphidospora acitmimita. 



Hepta nieria dolioluni . 



Didyiiiosphfuyella counidea Wiessl. 



Helvella ephippiuui. 

 f Geopyxis cupularis. 



Peziza re panda. 



P. succosa. 



P. pustulata. 

 t Humavia deerrata. 



Lachnea dalmeniensis. 



L. hemisphevica. 



L. albO'Spadicea. 



Dasyscypha ciliavis. 

 t Erinella Nylanderi. 



Cyathicula coronata. 



Helotium ferniginemn. 



H. ochraceiini. 



H. lutescens. 



H. vivgultorum. 



Var. p'lictigennni. 



H. epiphylliini. 



Alollisia fallax. 

 t Psetidopeziza albella. 



Orbilia liiteo-rubdla. 



t Pliucidiuin multivalve. 



Pilaira aiiomala. 



Spinellus fusigev. 



Peronospora parasitica. 



P. ficaricE. 

 t Phoma longissiiumn. 



Septoria rosarnni. 



Monilia fructigena. 

 t Rhinotrichum niveum. 



Periconia pycnospora. 

 t Fiisicladiitin deutritiiuni. 



Stilbum tomentosuni. 



S. V III gave. 



Graphium flexiiosum. 



Myxomycetes — 



Clathroptychium riigiilosuni. 

 Cribvaria macrocavpa. 



C. argillacea. 

 Arcyria incarnatci. 



A. cinerea. 

 Didymium farinaceitin. 



D. spumarioides. 

 D. effusiini. 



Crater i II ni confiisiiin. 

 C. aureiim. 

 Badhaniia varia. 



B. panicea. 



Notes on the Origin of Kingston-upon-HuH, and of the Port of Hull, 

 also on the Camin Charter, the Meaux Register (including the ' old ' River 

 Hull Tradition), and Glimpses of Median-al Hull, by J. Travis-Cook. 

 London : A. Brown & Sons. 68 pp., 2/-. 



In this book Mr. Travis-Cook, who has written much in past years in 

 reference to old Hull, offers ' the latest, the best, and the ripest fruits 

 (for what they may be worth) of much labour in this particular vineyard.' 

 He would take back Hull's history some six hundred years earlier than 

 would most writers ; though he is admittedly indulging in ' historic 

 imagination.' He concludes that ' our founders were a little band of 

 eight families ; farmers as well as warriors, possessing one plough of eight 

 oxen.' This may be so, or it may not ; but without any evidence it is 

 difficult to say. When, however, we are told ' we may even go a step 

 further, and conceive the existence of a prior British hamlet or fortress 

 on the spot where our foimders landed,' we must cry halt, or that one step 

 will lead us into a hole. In British times, as is amply proved by geological 

 evidence, this area Avas under water, and even in Roman times the land 

 around what is now Hull was not habitable. Whilst we admire the 

 author's patriotism in endeavouring to make the old town of Hull even 

 more ancient, we can only regret that his ideas are unsupported by 

 evidence. His sketch-maps, also, shewing Hull in the VI. and XIV. cen- 

 turies, though ingenious, are not convincing. Still, these ' ripe fruits ' are 

 to be eaten, and if we don't swallow too many, no great harm will result. 

 But there is much other interesting information in the book dealing with 

 Hull in later times, when (the silt having formed) the author is on firmer 

 ground. It is well produced and cheap. 



Naturalist, 



