EUROPEAN FUNGUS FLORA: AGARICACEE 365 
in favour of L. Klainei Pierre (1898), with which he thinks it 
“almost certainly identical”; it is to be regretted that any doubt 
as to this should be allowed to remain, especially as the editor must 
be in a position to say definitely what plant he had in view. Wh 
under Diplorhynchus—a genus which he cites as of ‘‘ Welw. in 
Trans. Linn. Soe. ser. 2, ii. 22,” but which would be more correctly 
quoted as ‘* Welw. ex Ficalho & Hiern in Trans.,’’ etc.—we find 
“ D. angolensis Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 667 partly,” placed 
under D, Welwitschii, with the citation of one of the three Welwitsch 
numbers quoted by Hiern. No indication is given as to the position 
of the other numbers, nor is the other “ part” of D. angolensis Hiern 
referred to any other species; it is not D. angolensis Biittner—the 
a retained—as a reference under that expressly states ‘not of 
lern,’ 
The misreading of a note in Trans. Linn. Soc. 2nd Ser. 
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under the preceding species. We see no reason why Mr. Hiern’s 
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tution of the earlier name should not have been followed; even on 
auctoris nota,” but this merely means that at that time the National 
Herbarium was very perfunctorily consulted, and Aublet’s type 
therein was consequently not examined by them. 
@ are inclined to take exception to the citation of MS. names 
(P. 110), although the fact that plants bearing such names are 
European Fungus Flora: Agaricacea. By GuorGE Masser, F.L.S. 
London: Duckworth & Co. 1902. Pp. vi, 274. Price 6s. net. 
Brizisn mycologists will extend a hearty welcome to Mr. Massee’s 
Comprehensive Flora of European Agarics. He has provided in a 
andy one-volume form a key to all the known European species, 
