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I also place here the R. gratus Focke. Ble says of it, “Fl. 
magni rosei, stami EO: sepala patentia externe snb- 
 .. -virescentia.’’ I have what seems . it from Pe fe yrs 
dness of Dr. Bashanay White; and Surrey, 
liberality of Mr. Beeby. 
(To be continued.) 
SHORT NOTES. 
Poramoceton cortaceus Nolte.—Last year Mr. A. Fryer sent 
specimens of the above plant “spr Cambridgeshire. This is placed 
by Reichenbach nearest to P. lucens, as a variety. Mr. Fryer 
Soniiders its nearest ally is P. Zak and q e 
These Cambridgeshire specimens are the nearest that I gee seen 
from Europe to Nolte’s type specimen in Herb. Mus. Brit s 
through my neglect it was omitted in the 8th ed. of the < ioeaee 
Catalogue.’—Arruur BENNETT. 
— RUFUS Wahilb. IN i Surrotx.— The Rey. Dr. Hind has 
es me a specimen of the above plant, gathered many 
year ice “e Sir Charles Dacian on the coast near Aldborough. 
Cheviotiand and Lincolnshire are the only records of its occurrence 
on the east coast.—Artuur BENNETT. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Tux ‘ Annual Report of the Proceedings of the Belfast Natura- 
lists’ Field Club’ for 1884-85 contains, in the appendix, hae i. of a 
useful list of the Fungi of the. North of Ireland, by the Rev. H. 
W. Lett. It is prefaced by a short summary of the little that has 
previously bee tive in this directtion, and contains 581 specics, 
with localities for 
Tue *Poureatii Annual Report of the on London Miecro- 
scopical and Natural History Club’ contains an address from the 
¢ President, Mr. B. D. Jackson, on the botanists, from Ray 
Hill, wh f the 
district. The MS. notes of Newton, Doody and Buddle, relating 
to the local flora are quoted, as well as those published in the - 
works of Petiver, Ray, and Blackstone. 
A new volume (the 17th) of the ‘Icones Plantarum,’ which is 
apparently to be devoted entirely to Ferns, was begun in May. It 
