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ings of Stapelias, &e.) ; the i bulbous plants described by Mr. 
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gascar Ferns (163) ; this collection included 27 new aro described 
by Mr. Baker in the Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. xv., pp. 411- 
422. Sanderson, J.; Gold-fields. Other con od faa were received 
from Calvert , H.; Kirk, Dr. (Zanzibar); Masters, Dr.; Ascher- 
son, Dr. ; Owsl, Miss (Madagascar 
Amenica.—Vorth.—Austen, Mrs. ; ; California (157). — British 
Boundary Survey (46). Gray, Prof. A.; miscellaneous (200). Le- 
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fornia (62). --Glaziou, A.; er Brazilian. collections, 
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Sodiro, Father P, se Ecuador Ferns (422); a remarkably fine col- 
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(39). 
Avstrat1a.—Moore, Chas. ; specimens belonging to the le 
of timbers exhibited “ Philadelphia. Mueller, Baron von; va 
peep plants (470). Trevelyan, Sir W. C., Bart. ; eee 
plants (92). 
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mee, Rev. 8. J.; Samoa (274); the ’ further novelties amongst the 
we are described by Mr. Sel Journal of Botany, 1876, pp. 342- 
345. 
(From the ‘* Report on the Progress and Condition of the Royal 
Gardens at Kew, during the Year 1876,”) 
Recent Researches on THE ENTOMOPHTHORE®. 
Ueber die Entomophthoreen und thre Verwandten. n . Ose. 
Breretp. (Botan pion Zeitung, June, eg Die copulation 
bet einigen Entomophthoreen. Yon Dr. Lxon Nowaxowsky 
saeemtanecne 5 eneang Apu, 1877.) 
ale. e first-named author who, as is well known, has give 
considerable ny See to the study of f Entomaphthor (better peli in 
this coun s Empusa), has come to the legit timate conclusion that, 
of the above-named fungus, deals mainly with its congener 
E. radicans found on the cunge i caterpillar in autumn. Nearly two 
years ago the resting-spores of (as was supposed) this species were 
found in small _auantiy inside th caterpillars, but these spores did 
not. eons in the wing epriog, Laat autumn the eae was 
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