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110, the character ta the gag and spermatia warrant us in assign- 
ing this species the genus Cetraria (Platysma). For the correct 
synonymy, hi is ene iie rather intricate, vide Nyl. Animad. cirea F. 
Arnold, in * Flora,’ 1872, p. 267. As so far corroborative of this, we ma 
aleurites several specim ens d à species afterwards to be noticed, and two 
of the present species, me indicating that at that date his a/euriles was 
the plant before us only pro minima Me 3 
3. Lichen resupinatus, "E. i — Nephromium lusitanicum, 
Schær.—The specimen drawn, at s ast Pm one labelled as above by 
Sowerby, from Cornwall (Turner), is proved by the yellow medulla and 
to N. t 
- more decided than in the larger specimen. In herb. Sowerby, there are 
three specimens of L. resupinatus, all of which very singularly belong to 
Ni: os a not uncommon oe in the western mountainous 
Lichen spongiosus, E. B. t. 1314, — Solorina limbat a, Smmrft. 
Of this there is unfortunately no ecimen à preserved i in etg Sowerby or 
` attached to the original drawing, ern like other terricole species in ier long 
neglected lierbursaih, has probably crumbled into dust. In Sir J E. 
Smith’s Herb., however, to whom possibly, as in other cases, the plant may 
have been returned by '$o werby, there oupi sapaan of L. spongiosus 
marked * To Harriman, exactly corresponding with S. limbata, 
mmrft. We may, therefore, quite legitimately conclude that the lichen 
of E.B. and that of Smmrft. are identical. The figure in E. B. is not very 
characteristic of the thallus, and, moreover, is too deeply Lunge which in 
connection with the description given, has no doubt led to some confusion 
as to the plant really represen nte d. Whet ther the thallus usvally described 
as that of this species be proper, or whether the plant be simply an old 
condition of S. saccata, we need not here inquire. 
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LANTS OF KILMANJARO.—AÀ small but very interesting tedio 
of plants has been sent to Kew by Dr. Kirk which was made by t 
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za Lake. 
-writes in a letter to Dr. Hooker, “stops far below the snow line, : 
zone of wind-swept rocks encircles the dome and rolls down its avalane es 
and meu. > is — Log to a height of 20,000 feet, and some 
he would pass in the way, I asked him in return to | 
