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by which to separate them, although they differed widely in 
general appearance, especially in the colour of the flowers, 
and I saw no forms which could be described as intermediate. 
- (Nat. iii. 64.) 
& is, however, I think certain, from contemporary evidence, 
that the plant described by Ray as “ Gentiana fugax Autumnalis 
elatior,” &c., included, if it were not entirely, the G. germanica of 
authors, and that the “first record” of this must therefore date 
from 1696, if not from 1690. 
SHORT NOTES. 
L C var. — Pileus 
2-24 in. broad, firm and tough, depressed, often infundibuliform, 
sinu 
phous system. en I first saw this curious fungus in the hands 
of Mr. T. McCormick, an intelligent stoker at the Glasnevin 
Gardens, I was puzzled to know to what genus to refer it, until he 
showed me where it was growing on old wood in the dark corner 
of a coal-shed here. The thick rhizomorphous system adhered to 
pieces of the wood in the manner in which the rhizome of a 
ges of 
development. Some of them were abnormal through pressure, 
&e. ery few, as careful examination of a series of 
fe) 
w 
mycelioid system. In all the material available I have found no 
spores, which in the type are oval and white——Davin McArpte. 
Hants anp Iste or Wicut Pranrs.—Leontodon nudicaulis 
Soland. var. pristis Druce. To this must be referred a plant in 
Miss C. E. Palmer's herbarium gathered at Ventnor, Isle of 
