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MASSEE’S BRITISH FUNGUS-FLORA. 
aie F dhcp tp A Classified aes book of Mycology. By Gzor 
SSEE: in three volumes, VOL. Price 7s. 6d. Geo. Bell and Sonik 
Uonton 1893. 
The author of this important work is evidently desirous that the 
three volumes shall be in the hands of mycological students in 
readiness for the coming season. No time has been lost in bringing 
out Vol. IL., which, like its predecessor, shows that no efforts have 
been spared in its production. The excellent manner in which the 
descriptions of species have been drawn up leaves nothing to 
latter is included the genus Laccaria, which was originally proposed 
by Berkeley, and is readily distinguished from Clitocybe by its rough 
globose spores and mealy gills. Few changes are perceptible in this 
volume, but it is sufficient to know that the work is up to date and 
reliable. H.T.S 
LO TE—C OLEOPTERA. 
Soronia puncta ds.—Under the bark of a birch-tree in 
wood prorat ors Chapa Allerton and Roundhay I lately came across the very 
rare Soronia punctatissima. Its colour was almost identical with that of the 
d s i i 
roduc 
as follows:—‘ Very local, Shirley ina Es her in a (Power), Darenth, 
Chatham, Combewood, pp es ied — Bely edere, Shiere, Hastings, Isle 
of Wight, Dean Forest, Repton, Sca ough, Live expool district, Dunham Park, 
Stretford, Ronthemhercadk prec ; goal local, Tweed, Tay, and Moray 
districts.,—W. F. BAKER, Leeds, April 25th, ae 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
r colleague, Mr. W. Barwell Turner, F.R.M.S., is having his important 
is 
worthy of its author’s reputation, both as an artist and an algologist, a and we trust 
that any of our readers who wish to be among the subscribers will at once address 
themselves to Mr. James } Miles, iecsahaoal Bond Street, Leeds. 
cimen number ber of ‘Science id Art and ig poe —— which is 
Ss is 
seventh volume an umber, has reache It ha ts of a 
We ore that there are numerous portraits of science teachers and Bi emin 
first of a ‘new series’, a complication which is always better avoided. 
P ys soneets 
Naturalist, 
