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future always be indicated. At the end is @ correction relating to 
vol. v., which is so likely to be overlooked that we reprint it here: 
** Premna longipes Baker in FI. Trop. Afr. vy. 288 is a synonym of 
hl.” We note that Mr. Scott Elliot’s name 
is throughout embellished with a hyphen, which we believe he has 
ed. 
Tue British Mycological Society have just issued the concluding 
part of the first volume of its ‘ransactions, The Society was 
@ full and careful index. The oclety owes much to the Hon. 
Secretary and Editor, Mr. Carleton Rea, of Worcester. Professor 
ame . Trail, of Aberdeen, has been elected the President 
for the ensuing year, and the foray will take place in the autumn 
at Hereford, in connection with the Woolhope Club. 
Mr. C, : 
of The Genera of Gastromycetes. He begins with a description of 
illustrations of a member of each genus. He gives some good notes 
on the generic value of capillitium, sterile base, and form of spores. 
The paper should form & useful introduction to the study of the 
group. Mr. Lloyd’s constant omission of authorities leaves one in 
the dark as to the origin of the plants, and he does not indicate in 
What countries the different genera may be looked for. 
Prorgssor Porter, of the College of Science, Newcastle, has 
described in the Transactions of the English Arboricultural Society 
a canker of oaks cause by a Stereum. The affected oaks are, he 
Says, not uncommon in thie North of England. By means of 
ssor 
that he is dealing with a Sterewm hitherto undescribed, and has 
named it S. quercinum, 
Mr. James BE. Warring publishes ‘‘ Some Notes on the Flora of 
Hampstead” in the Hampstead Annual for 1901; a popular 
account of the present condition of the flora of the Heath and 
neighbourhood. 
