399 
Barek in Annales du Jardin botanique de Buitenzorg, vol. iv., p. 96, 
t. 7, where it is called Polypodium patelliferum. A second species, 
JI 'Curtisii, i is figured in Hooker’s Leones Plantarum, t. 1607. Living 
examples of L. carnosa are now in cultivation at Kew for the first time, 
thanks to the exertions of Mr. C. Curtis, assistant superintendent of 
Forests, Penang, whose interesting account of how he obtained them is 
Ley in x the following letter :— 
| Botanic Gardens, Penang, 
qu te 12th July 1894. 
By the S.S. “Bombay,” which left day before yesterday, I 
shipped one. W. Case containing four big pigope of the Perak Lecan- 
opteris, which you asked for some time ago, and a few other things to 
up the ease. “This is the very first oppor smi I have had of getting 
this plant, and I hope you will receive it alive. I cut off the portion 
of the tree on which it was growing, so that it is as ue esta- 
blished as it is possible to be, and I was Ake enough to the 
Bo adr ^ 
the plant was one. clear day. I started a en ter oo ere and 
got up to the top soon hy mid-day, collected the plant and got back 
to a bungalow about 2,000 feet down and slept there. The following 
morning I started at 5 a.m. to catch the boat for Penang, and on 
C. Curtis. 
ete a ee 
a 
; = Dara ene. the minute alga 
Eee Flevxigha, Kutz., and 4. ng. n Nord., have s minnie sig 
immense numbers, forming a verdigris-green layer on the surface of the 
pond in front of the Palm House at Kew. Hydrodictyon po teree 
Roth., prm known as the * water-net," has also been very 
* the largest and most beautiful of European 
d 'otà Frisii Lasch., and Agaricus augustus, Fries., hitherto 
only ica Lepiota breit, Lo for Britain, have occurred in the Arboretum, 
Serag rem is closely allied to the common iiusheobi sep 
campestri 
larger size et superior flavour. 
