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Graminere Exsiccatae (Fascicles xvii., xviii.), from Eneucker; 25 

 British Hieracia (Fascicle vii.), from Rev, W. R. Linton. 



125 cryptogams of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, from 

 Migula ; 160 Muscineae of Cardiganshire, from Painter ; 50 mosses 

 of the Malay Archipelago, from Fleischer; 200 European Hepaticae, 

 from Schiffner ; 58 mosses and 136 fungi of Brazil, from Ule ; 

 75 North American algae, from Collins, Holden, and Setchell ; 

 250 fungi imperfecta from Kabat and Bubak ; 20 Ohio fungi, from 

 Eellerman; 14 microscope preparations of micro-fungi, from Miss 

 A. L. Smith ; 150 micro-fungi, from Vestergren ; 50 fungi selecti, 

 from Jaap; 50 Ascomycetes, from Rehm; 100 European fungi, 

 from Rabenhorst, Winter, and Pazschke ; 50 economic fungi, from 

 Seymour and Earle; 150 fungi of Germany, 50 Uredineae, 50 

 Phycomycetes and Protomycetes, from Sydow ; 150 cryptogams of 

 South Africa, from Wilms ; 400 North American fungi, from 

 Bartholomew, Ellis, 'and Everhart ; 100 Saxon fungi, from 

 Erieger ; 25 parasitic fungi, from Briosi and Cavara ; 3 exhibition 

 sheets of water-colour drawings, from Worthington G. Smith ; 

 30 water-colour drawings of British lichens for exhibition, from 

 Highley. 



Among the additions acquired by purchase, special reference 

 may be made to 12 MS. volumes containing a classified series of 

 annotated descriptions of the genera and species of British Basidio- 

 mycetes, prepared by Mr, Worthington G. Smith, and illustrated 

 with 135 ink drawings exhibiting the characters of the genera and 

 subgenera. More than 2150 species are described, thus affording 

 a valuable supplement to the fine series of coloured drawings in 

 the Department. 



THRINCIA NUDICA ULIS. 

 By James Britten, F.L.S. 



In his Prodromus Flora Britannica, p. 70, Mr. Williams substi- 

 tutes for the generally received Leontodon hirtum of British books the 

 name L. Leysseri Beck, in this following the distinguished Austrian 

 botanist in considering L. hirtum of Linnaeus to be a different plant. 

 In the course of his disquisition Mr. Williams has a bibliographical 

 note which may mislead future workers and which it may therefore 

 be well to correct, especially as the correction materially affects the 

 right naming of the species. 



Mr. Williams says M In the copy of Sp. Plantarum ed. 2 in Herb. 

 Mus. Brit., annotated by Solander, he has written opposite the de- 

 scription of L. hirtum * Hab. ad Petersfield Angliae, in Madera, 

 Lincolnshire — nudicaule? thus throwing doubt on the application of 

 the Linnean name to the English plant. The specimen so labelled 

 is in Herb. Banks." 



In the first place it may be pointed out that Mr. Williams 

 means the 1st edition, not the 2nd, and that the only MS. entry is 

 the name Leontodon hirtum written by Dryander (not Solander) in 



