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years, are scattered through many journals and proceedings of soci 
ties, as is the case with the writings of most authors, and it was an act 
of special consideration for the learned author to devote some of the 
time of his declining years to the collection and editing of the 
most important of his writings. The result we now have ina heay 
volume! of over twelve hundred pages. The publisher has issuedit 
in two parts (erroneously called volumes on the title page), with con 
tinuous paging and single index. Forty-three memoirs are included, — 
the principle of selection being to take those which deal most fully 
with observation; for while theories and explanations are subject © 
continued variation, true facts remain immutable. The original ; 
this large volume, and it must suffice to say, what is A 
that it will prove indispensable to the student of vegetable physiologs 
not only on account of the invaluable memoirs it contains, but because 
of the convenient form in which they are presented. 
Minor Notices. 
THE SECOND VOLUME of Massee’s British Fungus-Flora’ e pe 
sued, and is an exact counterpart of the first volume, noticed . 
January issue of this journal (p. 31). A few more speci€s a 
than in the first volume, making nearly 1,600 species In pasidiomt 
present volume does not yet carry the work through the di 
cetes. As the work is to be completed in three volumes, m8 a 
third and concluding volume is like the preceding One " 
remain 2,500 species of the “British fungus-flora” unprovided : 
that term is meant the species of British fungi. ioe ne 
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*Massez, GrorGre.—British fungus-flora: a classified text-bod Bel & 
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