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The following collections have been acquired by purchase :— 

 25 specimens of British Eubi from the Eev. E. F. Linton; 690 

 plants of Nyasaland from Mr. Buchanan ; 99 species of Cape of 



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from Post ; 530 species of plants from Mexico, collected by Pringle ; 

 452 plants from Bolivia, collected by Bang ; 12 fruits from Mexico, 

 collected by Howorth ; 299 plants from Swan River, Australia, 

 collected by Brewer ; 75 species of Canadian Mosses and 100 species 

 of Canadian Lichens from Mr. Macoun ; 150 species of Mosses from 

 North America, collected by Renauld and Cardot ; 150 species of 

 Mosses and Hepatic® from the Cameroons, collected by Dusen ; 

 29 specimens of Sphagna from Labrador, collected by Rev. A. 0. 

 Waghorne ; 200 specimens of Hepatic® from France, by Husnot ; 

 165 slides of British Alg® from Buff ham ; 50 slides of British 

 Marine Algse from Brebner; 25 specimens of British Algae from 

 Holmes; 100 slides of Fuugi from Tempere and Dutertre ; 100 

 Fungi from Saxony, by Krieger; 50 specimens of Economic Fungi, 

 by Seymour and Earle ; 100 specimens of Rabenhorst's European 

 Fungi ; 250 species of Fungi from Sydow ; 25 species of parasitic 

 Fnngi from Briosi ; 50 species of Fungi from Lombardy, by Cavara ; 

 and 29 cellular plants from Bolivia, collected by Rusby. 



Specimens of seeds from the interglacial beds at Rotthus were 

 presented by Professor Nehring, and fruits of Nipa, from the Tertiary 

 strata at Sheppey, by Mr. Shrubsole. 



SHORT NOTES. 

 Trichouanes ramcans in Wales— Some doubt has been cast 

 (see J o„rn. Hot. 1871, 175) on the nativity of this plant in Wait s. 

 It may therefore be worth placing on record that I have quite lately 

 found it in two distant districts in Merionethshire— one near Har- 

 lech, the other on Cader Idris. Other persons, including the late 



avoid giving further details of the localities, but they are not likely 

 to be visited by tourists — one is by an inconspicuous stream, the 

 other behind a waterfall— John Percival. 



[Mr. William Robinson, of Weston-super-Mare, sends for the 

 British Museum Herbarium a specimen collected by himself in 

 Merionethshire, in August, 1889, in a locality where he first found 

 it about twelve years before. He knows of other places where the 

 fern was growing some years ago.— Ed. Journ. Bot.] 



Jacksonia Raf.— In this Journal for 1886 (p. 139) I followed 

 Pfeiffer in saying that in this name Rafinesque intended to com- 

 memorate George Jackson, of whom (I. c.) I had written an account. 

 I then said I did not know "how Pfeiffer ascertained the fact, as 

 Rafinesque merely says, 'Jacks ; t ia tn/„liata, < icme ,h„l,ran<lra L.* " 

 I am now inclined to think that Pfeiffer was wrong, and that Rafinesque 

 intended to compliment John Jackson, a contemporary American 

 botanist of whom some of our active friends across the water may 



