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Holmesdale Natural History Museum from the herbarium of Dr. 
J. A. Power, labelled ‘ Cloud Wood, near Breedon,” which I take 
to be in the county of Leicester, v.-c. 55. The specimen was 
probably collected between 1830 and 1840. Gagea lutea is on 
record for all the neighbouring counties, with the exception of 
Lincoln.—C. E. Saumon. 
SAXIFRAGA AIZOIDES IN CARNARVONSHIRE (Journ. Bot. 1908, 
95).—I have, in my herbarium, specimens gathered by me in 
August, 1898, near Capel Curig, v.-c Carnarvon. was 
owing in short herbage on boggy ground on the edge of a small 
rivulet that falls into Llyn Mym Salmon says 
Carex canescens Lightf. (Journ. Bot. 1908, 369-376).—Mr. 
Arthur Bennett informs me that since the publication of his 
Supplement to Topographical Botany he has received specimens 
of this plant from Nottinghamshire (see p. 370). He also points 
out that Carex canescens var. subloliacea (see p. 372) was first 
described by Lestadius in Noy. Acta Soc. Sci. Upsal. xi. p. 282 
(1839).—F. N. Winu1ams. 
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REVIEW. 
Synopsis of the British Basidiomycetes: a Descriptive Catalogue 
of the Drawings and Specimens in Department of 
Botany, British Museum. By Worruineton Grorcr 
SmirxH, F.L.S. Léndon: British Museum (Nat. Hist.). 8vo, 
cloth, pp. 531, tt. 5, 145 figs. in text. Price 10s. 
