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same colour; setse conical or subclavate, sometimes rough, 70-130 
X7-14 fi; spores cylindrically ellipsoid, 7-8x4 p. 
On trunks. 
Hymenochaete Boltoni ( Sacc .). Cooke Grev. VIII., 145. 
Has been supposed to be British, but there is no reliable 
evidence. 
MEMORABILIA. 
Hypoxylon Broomeianum, Berk. $ Curt . — The specimens 
named Hypoxylon amorphum, Ell. Ev., are typical H. 
Broomeianum, Berk , according to authentic specimens. 
Polystictus PeradenijE, B. & Br . — According to authentic 
specimen the Polyporus chrysoleucus , Kalchbrenner, is no other 
than the above species. 
Polystictus luteo-olivaceus, Berk . — Specimen of Polyporus 
placodes , Kalchbrenner, believed to be genuine is certainly the 
above species of Berkeley. 
Valsa Platani, Schwein. Syn. Amer. Bor. } 1372. — Sporidia 
eight, allantoid, hyaline, 10 X 2 p. From specimen communicated 
to M. J. Berkeley by Dr. M. A. Curtis. 
Fungi Scandinavici. — Mr. Lars Romell has issued his first 
century of dried specimens of Scandinavian Fungi, neatly got up, 
but unfortunately in the modern style, with the specimens loose in 
pockets. Nicely they will be mixed up in public herbaria in a few 
years. Of course everybody will return them to the wrong pockets. 
They always do. The only trustworthy exsiccati will then be 
those in which the specimens are permanently glued down. 
Fungus Forays, 1890. — Up to the time of going to press 
arrangements had not been completed for the dates of the Fungus 
Forays this year, on account of the uncertain state of the weather. 
The Cryptogamic Society of Scotland has fixed its sixteenth con- 
ference for the 23rd of September at the Boat of Garten (Station 
on Highland Railway), and following days. The Essex Field 
Club propose to go outside Epping Forest this year, and explore 
other woods in the county. The Woolhope Club will occupy the 
usual first week in October, but definite programme has not yet 
been arranged. Again the Hampshire Naturalists are projecting a 
raid in the New Forest, but beyond these we have, as yet, no inti- 
mation. In due time we presume that those who customarily take 
part in these gatherings will receive private notice. ( 
Australian Fungi. — Efforts have been made during^ the past 
year or two, and are still being made, to arrange for the production 
of a Handbook of the Fungi of the Australian colonies, with 
short descriptions of the genera and species in English, and 
illustrations of the genera. The want of such a work has long 
been lelt, but the difficulty has been in securing some guarantee 
against personal pecuniary loss. Present prospects are somewhat 
