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" be taken to have them distributed to suitable localities." The results 

 from the Gambia and Sierra Leone are so far disappointing. This is 

 owing to the fact that, in the absence of a Botanical Station, there is 

 evidently no one possessing the requisite knowledge to undertake the 

 work of raising seedlings and of caring for them until they are ready to 

 be planted out. 



British Fungus Flora.— Mr. G. Masgee has published the first 

 volume of a new synopsis of all th ted in Great 



Britain. This volume contains the first part, of tli«- Iia^idioinv <tt, -,, 

 "s. ami the 

 Af/ariciuctr. It is wholly in English, and. m addition to the descrip- 

 tions critical notes by various authors are given under many of the 

 species. Spore measurements are given of all the type or authentic 

 species in the Kew Herbarium. It is twenty-one years since a 

 complete British .Mvvoio-iral Kiorn was published, namely Cooke's 

 "Handbook," and during that period the number of known British 

 fungi has been nearly doubled. That work contained 2,810 species, and 

 Mr. Massee estimates the present number at 4,895, so that a new work 

 is very much needed. In fact, students of mycology in this country 

 have been at a standstill from the want of a complete synopsis. 



