58 HYMENOMYCETES BRITANNICI. 
Scot.” I. think this surmise may be said now to be amply 
confirmed. For obvious reasons I have not dilated upon the exact 
locality on or near Ben Lawers where this grass was found, but I 
shall renew my search for this very interesting rediscovery of 
another of Don’s lost species. I cannot find this grass recorded 
for the New World, but I have come across a specimen in m 
herbarium, from Denver, Colorado, which is so named (leg. Marcus 
EK. Jones, 1879, No. 1579); this, however, is a totally different 
species.—J. Cosmo VILL, 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Hymenomycetes Britannici ; British Fungi (Hymenomycetes). By the 
Rev. Jonn Stevenson. Vol. ii. Blackwood & Sons. 8vo, 
pp. 868. 68 cuts. 
this volume being too numerous, we take the orders for comparison, 
which give the following result :— 
Cooke. a ae 
6 
Agaricini (Cortinarius to Lenzites) eee | 3 
olyporei. “ 5 : . ‘ 144 202 
Hydnei 45 77 
Thelephorei . 70 107 
Cl to ea : : ‘ i : 57 71 
Tremellinei . ‘ : ‘ ; ; 32 33 
Totals . ; ; : - 559 852 
Adding this increase of 298 to 337 of the first volume, we have 
a total of 630 species—no inconsiderable advance in our insular 
ora. Following Fries’ ‘Hymenomycetes Europai,’ the genus Lepista 
Fr. is dropped, the species being relegated to Agaricus; also 
