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forwarded by ig * Bennett to Dr. Lange, whose rake! was, ‘ C. 
areticum La m foliis 5 Spat e thus, as Mr. 
Wales. The Cerastium was gro Wing 3 in fair plenty, at an altitude of 
about 8000 feet, or somewhat higher. It is no doubt the same 
plant as has been Sota ea from Snowdon under the 
name of C. latifolium.—Avueustin Ley 
i M aLpinum L., In Ee —TI found this plant in the 
Brandon range of mountains, on rocks facing east, at an altitude 
of about 2000 feet, in August this year. I now learn; on consulting 
the ‘Cybele Hibernica,’ that it is new to the South of Ireland. 
There was not very mu uch of it, and I oul saw it ata wig jo spot 
during two days’ rambling upon the mountain. gare Tin Ley. 
A NEW SRE From Ecuapor.—We have just — from 
Mr. R. V. Sherring, F.L.S., a seul rar new Lycopodium, allied 
to L. clavatum, in fehial the leay mbranous, except at the 
very base, and entirely destitute of Fabhovegliyl It was gathered 
by Anton Hubsch at nag? gage the Province of Loxa, in the Andes 
of Ecuador, in August, 1 
Lycopodium albidum, n. — Main stem wide- eee 
hypogceous ; lower branches ae 6-8 in long, bearing about 
closely- -adpressed branchlets. Leaves lanceolate, din. ea pipet 2 
ricated, white and membranous, except at the very base, 
fimbriate-dentate on the margi Spikes not seen. — Should be 
placed after 82 in my Synopsis, next to L. — Desv. (L. 
scariosum Hook. Ic. t. 89, non Forst.).—J. G. Bake 
Juncus renvts Willd. 1 KirxcupsriGHTSsHIRE. =e September 
last I sent Mr. Arthur Bennett, i eee a rush which he pro- 
nounced . be Juncus tenuis Willd., one of George Don’s reputed 
discoveries. I found it growing on rahe roulaias, among other 
rushes and grasses, about sixty yards from a house which stands 
by the same road-side. If not indigenous, I cannot see how this 
rush could have come there. Its station is West Risk, a mile 
and three-quarters west at New Galloway, Kirkeudbrightshire, 
Scotland.— James McAnpre 
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Comparative re ae and Biology of the Fungi, Mycetozoa, ie 
Bacteria. By A. pe Bary. Trans ted by Henry E. F. Garnse 
M.A. Oxford, nea. is ern 8yo, pp. Xviii. 525. 
Tue publication by the Clarendon Press of a translation of Prof. 
de Bary’s ‘ Vergleichende Morphologie’ is one of those events one 
_ has come to expect in the natural course of things. In the 
_ admirably selected series of German botanical works which has 
issued in English form from the Press there is none likely to have 
a coon and better influence on the progress of Botany in this 
