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Kissling (8) gives an account of an attack on Gentiana lutea, no 
other plants being affected ; and Nordhausen (4) records the disease 
as confined to Allium wrsinum in the neighbourhood of Leipzig. 
Crystals of oxalate of lime are abundantly formed in the 
cultures along with the growth of the Botrytis mycelium. haw the 
test-tube culture the gelatine was liquefied near the surfac 
white layer of large, beautifully formed, octohedral and orosinits 
crystals was deposited on the surface of the firmer unchanged 
material near the bottom of the tube. The liquid was filled with 
pansicee that had become yeast-cells, and were budding out in great 
numbers. 
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ACORUS GALAMUS IN ENGLAND. 
By Arraur Bennett, F.L.S. 
Mr. W. R. Care (First Records, ed. 2, 150) gives as the ‘* first 
record ” of Acorus in England (1666), “ found by Dr. Brown near 
Lyn ”’—meaning King’s Lynn in West Norfolk. The following 
extract fron Sir Thomas Browne’s Letters to Merrett * corrects 
this statement :— 
‘‘ July 13, 1668. 
‘‘Perusing your catalogue of Plants, upon Acorus verus I find 
these —- ‘found by Dr. rowne neere Lin,’ Socal probably 
there may be some mistake, for I cannot _ nor I doubt any 
Some 25 y vo I gave ar 
other yt is found thereabout. 
account of this plant unto Mr. Goodyeere at “k ate lately to Dr. 
How,{ unto ahs I sent some notes and a box full of the fresh 
* Notes and Letters on the Natural History of Norfolk, from the MSS. of Sir 
T. Browne, M.D., with notes by T. Southwell, F. Z.8., 2 58 (1902). 
+ John Goodyer, of bee Ham: 
t W. How, author otf 
