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.MEMORABILIA. 
Bresadola Fungt Tridentini. — This work, which was supposed 
to have been completed with Fasc. vii. and Index, has been resumed 
with the publication of Fasc. viii.-x., containing plates 106 to 150. 
We must say that Morchella costata , plate 148, hardly commends 
itself on its artistic merits. 
HANDBOOK OF AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
We are happy to announce that, concurrently with the issue of 
the present Journal, the long-anticipated “ Handbook of Australian 
Fungi ” will be completed, and bound in one volume, cloth, with 
gilt tops, containing some 500 pages of letter-press, an introduc- 
tion, and 36 octavo plates, of which many are coloured, illustrating 
the genera and sub-genera. Only eighty copies of this work will 
be retained for sale in Europe and America, for which an early 
application should be made. The descriptions of the orders, genera, 
and species are in English, whilst the illustrations are drawn, as 
far as possible, from Australian species, hence a considerable 
number are now figured for the first time. The coloured plates 
are those of the Hymenomycetes, the Gastromvcetes, and the 
Discomycetes. There are upwards of 2,000 species included, with 
a copious index, and the “ introduction ” is as full as necessary for 
the assistance of the student having little previous knowledge of 
the subject. It is hoped that this first “ Handbook ” of Colonial 
Fungi will gratify the Colonists, and give satisfaction to the 
respective Governments which have combined to assist in its pro- 
duction. 
NEW BRITISH FRESH WATER ALGJE. 
Mr. W. West has recently published, in the “ Journal of the 
Linnean Society a list of the Fresh Water Alg£e of West Ire- 
land ; and, in order to keep up a record of the British species in 
this Journal, we have extracted the new species, exclusive of 
Desmids and Diatoms, which will probably follow. 
Coleochaete irregularis. Prings. Mon. Rabh. FI. Fur. Alg. 390. 
West p. 108. 
Thallus irregular, bright green, threads loosened, or connate in 
a parenchymatous stratum ; joints quadrangular or polygonal, 
equal in length or 1-| times as long; oogonia oval, irregularly dis- 
posed, for the most part naked. 
Size. Veg. cell 12^-20 p. diam. 
Lough Creggan ; Roundstone. 
CEdogonium longicolle. Ford. Alg. Aq. ditlc. Sandv. 20, t. 2,/. 11-12. 
var. Senegalense. Ford. Alg. et Char. t. 16,/. 23. West p. 109. 
Dioecious, nannandr ous (?). Oogonia 2-3, continuous or single, 
pyriformly globose, or depressedly globose, basal part elongated, 
opening by a pore in the middle, or a little above the middle. 
