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feature is that the structure of the excipulum is included in the 
descriptions of many species, and no doubt in closely allied forms 
this innovation will prove of value. In working with Phillips’ 
manual the student became quite familiar with sub- “genera, but 
Mr. Massee believes in elevation, and not a single sub-genus is to be 
found in the volume. In place thereof are a large number of genera, 
nearly doubling in fact those given by Phillips. Each genus is 
illustrated by small well-executed figures, which are rather too 
crowded together, want of space probably being the consideration. 
However, the faults of the work are few, and r. Massee has 
rendered a great service to British mycologists by the publication 
of the most complete work of the kind that has yet appeared in the 
English language.—H. T. S. 
NOTE—LICHENS. 
Umbilicaria pustulata near Keswick.—Mr. J. Charles Smith of Nandana, 
near Penrith, recently sent me for identidication through vi Editor of this Journal, 
a terme which oe ee from a dry exposed rock on the summit of Falcon 
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is well worth noting p lant i is joa at local in its distribution, but is 
generally iucaiaak a such places as it occurs. I rl four stations for it in 
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counties. —JOSEPH A, asia haa sett Koc, Oct. 11th, 
NOTES—MAMMALIA. 
Deshernn® = hog a’ but little is known of the distribution 
ofe ven our co’ Bats be de wy advisable to record rp ne 
place. is species is, at ye as my limite experienc e of it goes, a greg 
one, and the occurrence or at most a ccaieiaetie is, perhaps, ore 
worthy. —CHAs. OLbiAit, i, Oct. 14 5- 
suck the cows pena the night is repeated by almost every small farmer, and 
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ere ne n idea held by some folks that they catch black-beetles! I know an old 
lady w ept one, and was delighted to find it drink milk from a saucer an eat 
ere bet as a change from beetles; and some folks use them as slug-catchers. 
I have seen a pouch—use unknown—made of the skin, spines of course outsi¢ 
but this was in Leena as were ~— destructive in a garden outside 
Ulverston, as I fou But see Macpherson’s ‘Fauna of Lakeland, 
1894, p. 4.—S. Lister Tee Ulverston, *6th August, 1895. 
