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productions,’ 1862; and, with Dr. Welwitsch, ‘ A description of the 
Fungi collected by D r. F, Welwitsch in Angola during the years 
1850-61’ (1870). 
The latest production of his pen was issued last spring in the 
Report of the West Kent Natural History, Microscopical, and 
Photographie Society, an association which had absorbed the 
Greenwich Natural History Club before mentioned. The paper is 
entitled ‘On some useful and noxious Fungi’; it is a popular 
résumé of well-known facts, but is of interest as testifying to his 
abiding interest in or Natural History. He was President of this 
Society vers vase 
For e yea aih vial considered his health precarious ; but 
only a auth time basal his death, from an affection of the liver, 
was any alarm felt by his family. He died at Blackheath, and was 
buried at Weybridge, 13th September, 1881, where his wife had 
been interred some years before. His colle ction of Fungi, by his 
express desire, will be added to the Herbarium of the Royal 
Gardens, Kew 
Mr. Gurrey’ s long official connection with the Linnean Society 
had given rise to a large circle of friends, whilst his ever kind 
and genial manner had attached them to him by close ties 
of esteem. By all, his loss will be felt as that of a personal 
parry an officer of large experichce whose place it will be difficult 
o fill. 
B. Daypon Jackson. 
SHORT NOTES. 
Irtsh _PotamocEtons ser Sess rtd mucronatus, Schrad. In the 
‘Cybele Hibernica’ the authors notice the records of this plant 
nnder the name of compressus, but or hie have seen no specimens. 
Mr. D. Orr, of Dublin, kindly sent me, a few days since, a packet 
of Potamogetons gathered m many years ago, and among them there 
is a specimen of P. mucronatus labelled ‘“‘ River Bann, Co. Down, 
1844, D. Orr,” this being one of the stations mentioned in the 
Cybele’ from ‘Flor. Hib.’—P. trichoides, Cham. ‘There is @ 
specimen of this species in the same collection labelled « Pools, 
vont Hills, Co. Down, 1844, : et .” Itis an interesting addition 
to re Trish flora. — P. Zizi .& K. Among some Potamo- 
its first Feacrd ‘as an Irish a It will bein District 10 of 
e ‘Cybele Hibernica. hae Bennerr. 
Leontopon nastitis, L.—Dr. Boswell, in ‘ English Botany,’ 
ed, 8, vol. v., p. 138, lane to his account of Leontodon hispidus, 
qi; the followin wing statement :—‘‘ This plant is a sub-species of the 
L. ' proteiformis of Villars, the ispioat form of which is the L. hastilis 
of Linneus, which is nearly or perfectly glabrous; but, though 
