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FUNGI OF FLORIDA. 
H. W. Ravenel, who is well known to Mycologists by the 
publication ot‘ his “ Fungi Caroliniani Exsiccati,” is now collect- 
ing specimens in the JStates of Florida and Georgia, with a view 
to their publication. The new series will probably contain about 
four fasciculi of one hundred specimens each, and will be issued to 
subscribers at twenty-one shillings each fasciculus. The series will 
be edited by M. 0. Cooke, and each century will be issued as it is 
ready. As the prejiaration is undertaken in this country, no delay 
or extra cost of transmission will be incurred. As only a small 
number of sets will be made up, an early application to the Editor 
of this Journal is desirable. 
FRIES’S FIGURES OF FUNGI. 
We are glad to direct the attention of Mycologists to the fact 
that Professor Elias Fries has resumed the publication of his 
“ leones Hynienomycetum,” by the publication of the first part of 
the second volume. It is to be hoped that he will receive 
encouragement to proceed with such a desirable work. There are 
a large number of species contained in the “ Epicrisis,” of which 
no figures have hitherto been published ; it is manifestly a great 
advantage to have these species illustrated from the drawings, and 
under the superintendence of the illustrious Mycologist of Upsal. 
The parts contain ten folio plates each, with illustrative letter ^ 
press, at a cost of thirteen shillings. 
CRYPTOGAMIC SOCIETY^ OF SCOTLAND. 
The third annual meeting of this Society was held during the 
week commencing October i7th, at Dunkeld, under the presidency 
of Colonel Drummond Hay. The same complaint was expressed 
here, as at other places, that the season was an exceptionally bad 
one for Fungi. The week, notwithstanding this, appears to have 
passed away satisfacto l ily, and it has been resolved to hold the next 
annual meeting at Edinburgh, under the presidency of Professor 
Balfour. We congratulate the Society upon its determination, and 
hope that the meeting will be strongly reinforced by Crypto- 
gamists from the south. 
Large Puff Ball {^Lycoperdon gigantewn ). — There was an 
enormous puff-ball in a bank near the house of tlie writer this sum- 
mer. It was eighteen and a-half inches in its greatest diameter, and 
four feet four inches in circumference. These puff-balls have come 
up in the same place for many years past, and always of a large 
size, but never before so large as the above. — G. N. JS/idwll, 
Cambridge^ Glamorganshire. 
