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and of setting an example of useful work that it may be hoped will 
speedily be followed in. this country. In so far as concerns the 
species common to this country and North ranges it will be ex- 
eeedingly useful to mycologists in Great Brita 
‘EK. M. Hormes. 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ¢e. 
At the meeting of - Linnean Society on the 7th of December, 
Mr. James Saunders showed a series of lantern-slides illustrating 
the habits of pockets. His observations were practically confined 
to the species seen within a radius of ten miles from Luton. Out 
of two hundred and pe species catalogued by Mr. A. Lister from 
the whole world, no r than ninety-six, or forty-six per cent., 
have been found in Pt district specified. The species shown were 
Badhamia utricularis, Trichia varia, Chondroderma radiatum, and 
Physarum leucopus, with remarks on their irregular and uncertain 
appearance, and the distribution in certain parts of the world. The 
President commented on the exhibition, and mentioned that a 
small dried-up plasmodium had long served him for demonstration 
to his junior classe on the phenomenon of restoration to activity by 
moisture and warmth. 
Tue for eee of a br solange section of the Belgian Société 
Royale de Botanique has been the signal for an o utburst of gt 
among the students of mosses and hapa in Belgium. One of t 
most active of a bryologists, Monsieur A. Mansion, ‘realizing the 
great need there is for a Flore des Hépatiques de Belgique, has col- 
lected the requisite facts and material, and has published a first 
talment in the Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique, xhi. ii. pp. yl dis 
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namely, from Spherocar, pus to Hoplomitrium. He has followed the 
classification of Schiffner in Engler & Prantl’s Natiirlichen Pflanzen- 
familien in its main lines. His descriptions are careful, and his 
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British apa compiled by Mr. Symers M. Maevicar. It is the 
