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The Fruits of all Countries: a Preliminary Catalogue. By F. T. Mott, 
F.R.G.S. Published by the Author, Leicester. 2s, 6d, 
This is a catalogue of “Fruits” in the popular, and not in the 
technical sense of that word. It includes all the well-known 
European species, as well as those of which we now often see the 
strange forms in the windows of fruit warehouses, and others not yet 
introduced into this country. The catalogue gives the scientific and 
popular names of the fruit, its native region, the habit of the plant, 
the edible part, and the appearance and qualities of the fruit. It is 
well styled a “preliminary” catalogue, and makes no pretence to be 
complete. The author requests that all corrections or additions may be 
forwarded to him at Birstall Hill, Leicester, whence copies of the 
work may be obtained. W. B. G. 
A Correction. —The Boletus aluterms, Fr.,from Hints Wood, which 
I mentioned in last months’ “Midland Naturalist,” p. 236, is, I regret 
to say, iwt that species. The stem of Agaricus nitidus, also, is not pure 
white, as my words would seem to imply,—W. B. Grove, B.A. 
Bryological Note from South Beds.— The following Pleurocarpous 
Mosses have fruited during 1882-3 in South Beds, besides other very 
common forms, viz :—Neckera coinplanata, Thuidium tamariscimirn, 
Thamnium alopecurum, Isotliecnim myurum, Camptothecium lutescens, 
Brachytliecium albicans (on thatch, Harlington), Eurhynchium Sioartzii, 
BJiyncliostegium niurale, R. ruscifolium, Plagiothecitim denticidatum, 
Amblystegium riparium, Hypnuni Jluitans, H. Jilicinuin, H. molluscum, 
11. cordifoU'um (sparingly on Flit wick Marsh), H. pvrum, H. squarrosum, 
and of H. triquetrum only one capsule was found. In addition to these, 
of the other groups of Mosses the following have been gathered in 
fruit :—Fontinalis antipigretica, Fissidens adiantoides, F. crassipes, 
Philonotis fontana, Physcomitrium pyrifomne, Physcomitrella patens, 
Funaria fascicular is, Barbula fallax, B. brevifolia, and Dicranum palustre. 
Duplicates of all have been examined by Mr. H. Boswell, of Oxford. 
J. Saunders, Luton. 
[Having, through the kindness of Mr. Saunders, seen some of the more 
noticeable of the above Mosses, I can bear testimony to the 
correctness of the nomenclature. This list is a remarkable one, and 
does credit to Mr. Saunders as an industrious student of Bryology. 
—J. E. Bagnall.] 
BIRMINGHAM NATURAL HISTORY AND MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY.— 
Geoeogicad Section, September 25.—The following exhibits were made:— 
Mr. T. H. Waller: An interesting specimen of slickensides on quartzite, from 
Caldecote quarry, near Nuneaton. Mr. W. J. Harrison, jun.: Ammonites caudatus, 
from Desborougli and Ecbinodcrmata spines in chalk matrix, from Grays, 
