REVIEWS. 
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* Narcissus Pseudo-narcissus. Overend, Cradley. 
N. biflorus. Glasshampton, Wore. 
Tamus communis. Hedges. 
* Paris quadrifolia. Wychbury Wood, Cradley Park. 
Juncus (Luzula) campestris. Meadows. 
J. bufonius. 
J. effusus. 
J. conglomeratus. 
* J. squarrosus. 
* J. uliginosus. Morasses, banks of streams and other humid sites. 
(J. supinus, Mcench.) 
(To be continued. ) 
Mr. Herbert Spencer.— The numerous friends and admirers of 
the distinguished philosopher will be interested to hear that he has 
recently left Brighton, where he has been living for nearly two years, 
and taken apartments at Bournemouth, and that the change has 
already been of considerable benefit to his health. 
Local Birds. —It will interest students of ornithology to know 
that the following birds were recently shot within a few miles of 
Birmingham, during one half-day’s collecting:—Temminck’s stint, 
Tringa Temminckii ; little stint, T. minuta \ dunlin, T. alpina ; curlew 
sandpiper, T. striola ; ringed plover, Charadrius liiaticula ; red shank, 
Totanus calidris ; common tern, Sterna Jluviatilis ; black tern, S. 
fissipes. —J. Betteridge. 
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A Manual of the British Discomycetes, with Illustrations. W. Phillips, 
F.L.S.—London : Kegan Paul, Trench and Co. 
This, the sixty-first volume of the International Scientific Series, is 
another instalment of the work which is being slowly done towards 
placing the British mycologist in the same position with regard to the 
present state of that science, which the publication of the “Hand¬ 
book of British Fungi ” enabled him to assume sixteen years ago. 
The “ Hymenomycetes Britannici,” already noticed in these pages, 
worthily led the way, and of the present volume it would be sufficient 
praise to say that it does the same with respect to the group of which 
it treats, that was done for the higher fungi in the Rev. John 
Stevenson’s two charming volumes. But more, far more than this, can 
be said. The “Hymenomycetes” was, in part, confessedly a 
compilation, founded on the last work of the immortal Fries—a clever 
and useful compilation, it is true, irradiated throughout by the touches 
of one who knew his subject. But here we are in the presence of a 
