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SHORT NOTES. 



Hydnum eeinaceum. — A specimen of this fungus weighing 

 22 lbs. 6 oz. has been sent to the British Museum by Miss 

 Mabel de Grey, who collected it. It was growing inside the 

 hollow stem of a beech at Lyndhurst. I do not know of any 

 specimen approaching this one in dimensions ; and though of such 

 great size, it is in no way abnormally developed.— Geoege Mukeay. 



A Bibliographical Note. — The differences between the first and 

 the second editions of the Tramm-thm* aw! PnmyJiw/s uf the Xnr 

 Zaihnul Institute, vol. i., are sufficiently startling to 'bo worth 

 recording. The first issue came out in May, 1869, with a preface 



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the latter is especially open to adverse remark, for the volume con- 

 sists of introductory matter (pp. xviii.), the Governor's Address and 

 Proceedings (pp. 1-202), and part iii., which is devoted to essays, 

 eight in number, each separately paged. This issue speedily 

 becoming exhausted, a second edition was brought out in 1875, 



of the Board of Governors, undertook its republication. As will 

 be seen, the arrangement of the first edition has been somewhat 

 changed. No extensive alterations have, however, been made in 

 era as originally published, and wherever at the request of 

 the authors any corrections have been made which were not merely 

 verbal, the words added have been put in italics, after those to be 

 omitted, which are in square brackets." The above is the whole 

 of the preface, which is dated Wellington, 31st May, 1875 ; the 

 arrangement is pp. xvii. l-l'.i.J. without any indication of the 

 original pagination. The first plan was to the last degree ob- 

 jectionable, but the second issue should have noted the original 

 pages in some fashion. This omission is, however, pardonable; 

 not so the following. I have found no less than ten new species of 

 plants are given in the second edition which are only alluded to in 

 the first. To take one example :— " Another undescribed Pitto- 

 sporum was obtained here," in the second edition is expanded 

 thus, "Another J'itt yontm (/'. clii/.timm, Kirk, var. unman) was 

 obtained here." The editorial preface as given above is most 

 ingeniously contrived to mask these interpolations (which deceived 

 me for years), by saying, "... the words added have been put in 

 ir this covers the whole of the additions here noted, all 

 the Latin names of plants being in italics.— B. Daydon Jackson. 



"Societas Phytographica." — Can any reader give me some 

 information about this Society ? 1 have not succeeded in tracing 

 it in any library in London, nor in either edition of Pritzel's 

 Thesaurus, Scudder's Index of Scientific Serials, Bolton's Catalm/ne 

 n, Srimtijic Periodicals, nor even in Berg's Catalogs Bibliothecas 

 jjnrti Im'perialis botanici petropolitani (1852), nor Trautvetter's Flora 

 Rossicaf antes. Thunberg himself alludes to it in his Flora Ca}»:nsis, 



