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from Australia and the Philippine Islands, from V. F. Brotherus 

 11 species of Hepaticae from Bolivia, from Mrs. Britton ; and 



3 Alga* from E. M. Holmes, Esq. 



owing 



603 species of plants collected in Bolivia by M. Bang ; 440 species 

 of Syrian plants collected by Professor Post ; 601 plants from the 

 Tibetan frontier, collected by Pratt; 2706 plants from Western 

 China, collected by Dr. Henry ; 300 plants from Anatolia, collected 

 by Bornmiiller; 497 plants from Spain, collected by Porta and Kigo; 

 189 plants from Central Paraguay, collected by the Bev. T. Morong ; 



200 plants from Honduras, collected by the Bev. J. Bobertson ; 



201 plants from the south-east of Madagascar, collected by Cloisel ; 

 100 Scandinavian Hieracia, collected by Dahlstadt ; 50 specimens 

 of Enjthraa from Wittrock ; 90 species of Fungi from the Orinoco, 

 collected by Boumeguere ; 200 species of Uredine<E, and 400 species 

 of other Fungi, from Sydow ; 650 species of Fungi from Saxony, 

 from Kruger ; 300 British Fungi from Afassee ; 25 species of rare 

 British Algae from Holmes; 100 species of European Alga* from 

 Hauck; 525 species of Canadian Mosses from Macoun ; and 100 

 species of Mosses from Brazil, collected by Ule. 129 prepared 

 slides of British Algse exhibiting the organs of reproduction have 

 been acquired from Mr. Buffham, and 150 similar slides of British 



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■ Notes on Zoospores.— Last spring I received from America a 

 specimen of Pontederia crassipes, which I placed in a shallow 

 wooden tub in my conservatory. A few days ago I noticed several 

 circular bright green patches, very thin and floating on the surface 

 of the water. One of these I floated on to a slip for the microscope, 

 and found portions of it could be drawn about with a needle without 

 rupturing them, being held together by some gelatinous substance. 

 un examination under the microscope, it proved to be a tangled 

 mass of a very fine freshwater alga, so fine that the cell-walls 

 could only be seen with a £ lens. In the water that surrounded it 

 were swarms of zoospores, without any cilia that I could perceive, 

 apparently moving by wriggling their bodies. They were snapping 

 at their food right and left, and the head end had the power of pro- 

 truding and retracting. I have only a superficial knowledge of the 

 subject but I do not find any figure in M. C. Cooke's British Fresh- 



U titer Ali)(B. — B. PlFFARD. 



Gloucestershire Btmi.-With regard to the records of Bubi in 



W 1^ and * lora t Gloucestershire by C. A. Witchell and 



W. B. Strugne 1 (see p. 248), to which the name of Prof Babin- 

 ton is appended, the facts of the matter are these :-Prof Babin^n 



on the ^^JLl» ^tSftF^jT. 



