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small, ovoid, towards the base a little shorter and wider. I have seen 
neither flowers nor fruit. Habitat: Glen Prossen, Clova, and various 
other places in the Clova district (Rev. J. Fergusson). Glas Mheal, 
Perthshire, at an elevation of 2500 feet (G. E. Hunt). In the latter 
station it was accompanied by Thuidium decipiens, De Not., Bryum 
uidium 
piena, De Not. ; Hypnum rigidulum, Ferg. mss. This species was lately 
described by the Rev. J. Fergusson in ‘ Science Gossip,’ and noticed in 
* Journal of Botany,’ October, 1871. From every form of Hypnum com- 
mutatum it is at once separated by its papillose leaves with much dilated 
auriculate bases ; by its larger alar cells; by the ovoid cells of the upper 
portion of the leaf, those of H. commutatum being linear ; by its monoi- 
cous inflorescence ; and by the time of the fruit, which is at maturity in 
autumn. Fruit has been found only in Italy and in South Prussia.— 
Mr. Charles Bailey distributed specimens of Æcidium Statices, Desm. 
(see Journ. of Bot. IX. 244), which Mr. John Barrow and he had found 
in some abundance on a species of Statice (probably S. Limonium), on the 
3rd of June last, on the eastern shore of Walney Island. e Statice 
occurs on ground covered each high tide, on Tummer Hill. Marsh, near 
pholygodes, Sch., also occurred on Walney Island in great plenty near Bent 
Haw Scar, on Thalictrum eu-minus, a. maritimum, Eng. Bot. ; also that 
Aicidinm crassum, Pers., was common on Cornus Mas, L., at Silverdale, 
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Warton Crag, and other places in North Lancashire. 
Potanical Hets. 
a large ( 
the author for the immense amount of industry which he has expended in 
lightening their labours in systematic botany. E 
In the * Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club’ Mr. M. C. Cooke 
has some notes on Podisoma, the well-known parasite on the Juniper. 
After giving an account of the remarkable observations of Dr. Oersted, of 
Jopenhagen, which go to prove that the Podisoma is a state of Restelia 
(parasites on species of Pyrus), or, rather, that there is a sort of alterna- 
tion of generation between them, both being forms of one species, —Mr. 
Cooke points out some difficulties in accepting these conclusions as abso- 
lutely proved. Three species of Podisoma are described and their proto- 
