3802 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Sir Joun Gopyey talked about the sensitive plant, ‘* which had 
always appeared most remarkable to hi His ide 
p a 
dead plant.” One would have thought that horses and cows were 
of Nature Notes the advisability of adding to the examples already 
published the admirable illustration given by Mr. H. G. Wells in 
his essay on ‘‘the Amateur Nature-lover,’”’ which runs as follows:— 
‘Rising, the amateur nature-lover finds he has been reclining on 
a puff-ball. These puff-balls are certainly the most remarka le 
—one of 
The golf-player smites these things with force, covering Mimse 
with ridicule—and spores, and so disseminating this far-sighted 
and ingenious fungus far and wide about the links.” 
Unver the title In My Vicarage Garden and Elsewhere, Canon 
Ellacombe has collected into a pretty volume the essays W ich he 
rs. They contain much information, 
pleasantly conveyed, about flowers and gardens. It is to be regretted 
seeing that that reasonable arrangement was inaugurated in 189 . 
Tue British Museum has lately acquired a very interesting 
volume containing drawings in colour of the animals and plants ¢ 
Australia, made by Thomas Watling in 1788-1792. Watling was 
