86 SHORT NOTES. 
ee oe in ‘‘ Bonplandia,” ii., 1854, 16, and in this Journal, 
1865, p. 2. In the latter # igs Zonavobiacn eretaceum, Lindl., and 
Neateaal intacta, Rehb.f., are quoted as other examples, and I ven- 
tured to remark that as ‘easly as 1851 I suspected this cleistogamy 
(see Orchidogr. Europ., p. 3).—H. G. Rercnensacn, fil. 
RePRopUCTION oF THE AscomyYcETES.—It can on be correct to 
say, a8 is said in the Journal of last month (p. 62), ‘“*The brilliant 
work of Van Tieghem and Brefeld has demolished the pollinodium 
and ascogonium theory, and the last corner in which Ror ea of the 
higher Fungi was supposed to lurk has now been swept clear by Cornu. 
Cornu’s memoir is dated July, 1876, and since then Dr. Stahl has aah 
at work in one particular ‘‘ corner,” at least, which the Ante is sap 
‘posed to have ‘'swept.clear.” I will quote his results in 
words (‘‘ Botanische Zeitung,’ November 8rd, 1876, 691): - he 
the results which I have obtained from my investigations on the sub- 
ject of the reproduction of the Lichens prove their se oy es most 
conclusively, Van Tieghem’s and Brefeld’s objections to the # xuality 
of the Ascomycetes, to which the Lichens heonrpe Legis can- 
a stra they claim universal validity, be made to harm ith 
sults.” Two other important declarations soon to "the ques- 
‘San ati issue have been made by Dr. Hermann Bauke in his “ Beit- 
rage zur Kenntniss der Pycniden ” (“‘N ova Acta,” Diede en, 18 76) 
dlready noticed in this Journal, p. 21: ‘‘Itis well known that Stahl 
Sectors tate ate the supposition that they are the reproducing organs.” 
r authorities who share the views of Drs. Stahl and 
Porsonovs Prant.— —— atenas sailors, belongin 
in Falmouth Harbour nf Poe 3 riot 
“grow on the shore near St. = ust. One of the men who was most affected 
“was taken to the Sailors’ Home Hospital, where he died after suffering 
great pi poisonous plant resembles Watercress, and is mis- 
it by 
a gers. =A lew years since two Italians died imme- 
epee = after partaking of oe is from the ‘ British Medical 
