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tumia elastica. It is unfortunate that the proofs were not more 
carefully read, as misprints abound both in names and authorities ; 
thus, sake out of the five Ranuneulacee are attributed respectively 
« Di ‘‘ Debile’” and ‘‘ Pais,” meaning Dillon, Delile, and 
Mr. J. Meptxy Woop continues to make steady progress with his 
Natal Plants. Part 4, concluding the fourth volume, and the third 
part of volume v., which is devoted to Grasses, have lately been 
issued. The plates, though roughly executed, cannot fail to be 
useful. From a general point of view, we might wish that a larger 
proportion of plants of botanical interest were selected for figuring ; 
but the primary object of the work is, of course, to be useful locally, 
and no doubt Mr. Wood knows what is most suitable for this 
urpose. 
Tue Transactions of the British My yeological Society (Worcester, 
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fungus foray at Haslemere, drawn up Mr. Carleton Rea, who 
describes the coud explored, and notifies the more interesting 
species collected. The number observed or gathered by the mem- 
bers on the different excursions amounted to four hundred and 
eighty-eight, two of them, Sparassis laminosa and Hypoderma 
Desmazieri, being new records for Britain. The President of the 
Society, Mr. R. H. Biffen, contribu utes a paper on “ Combating the 
Fungoid Diseases of Plants,” a subject he is well fitted to deal with. 
The beep list of ‘* Fungi new to Britain’ is undertaken, as in 
previous years, by A. Lorrain Smith and Carlton Rea. he 
dispeltion belong mostly to the larger fungi, and those new to 
science are illustrated ef coloured pe drawn by Mrs. Rea. The 
next fungus foray is to take place at Epping Forest towards the 
end of September, — the ieesadanoy of Mr. Arthur Lister. 
The Forest has been many times explored by the Essex Field Club; 
but doubtless some hitherto undiscovered species remain still to be 
M. Emme Bovtanerr has issued, in pamphlet form, me various 
papers hoi has been publishing within the last few years 0 Truffles. 
old enough to be remunerative. He gives a series of photographic 
figures representing the germination of the spore, which takes place 
within the asces. The echinulate a disappears, and 
endospore swells and produces a filame The author has ee 
proceeded further in his study of pemeiaary but he promise 
continued research on the subjec 
Freperick Henry Annotp, F.S. A was born at Petworth, Sussex, 
on February 18, 1831. Hewas Seats educated, but graduated B. A. 
at Trinity see Dublin, in 1859, proceeding to M.A. and LL.B. 
in 1864, and to LL.D in 1892. He held various ecclesiastical 
So adr ep in Sussex, and was presented in 1865 to the living of 
Racton-cum-Lordington, which he held till his death at Emsworth 
