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plants in South Africa, the paper went on to particularise the 
character of the prairie-like midlands of the Cape, with their luxuriant 
grass and vegetation. Since sheep had been introduced the grass had 
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Challenger). — The terrestrial vegetation of the island divided itself 
over five principal stations, each of which had a flora more or le 
peculiar to itself. These were the coast line with its littoral flora, 
e remaining gene and surface. e coast was either rocky, 
ar surface of weathered calcareous sandstone, or 
of the island, or perhaps the falling in of some underlying cave. More 
than half the whole number of species collected consisted of Old: World 
weeds which were naturalised in the island. 
Botanical Peiws. 
Axtictes 1x Jovrnars.—Sxupreupnn. 
Grevillea —M. J. Berkeley, ‘+ Notices of North American Fungi” 
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(contd.).—C. B. Plowright, « Fuckel’s Olassification of Spheriacei.”— 
Ib., “Two New Species of Fungi recently found in Norfolk.”’— 
Abstract of Bornet’s paper “On Gonidia of ‘Lichens.” 
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