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Another New British .tEcidium. — Reading the account of A. statices, Desm. (p. 244), reminds nie that A. Cydoiila;, Lenormand, occurred in some plenty on the leaves of several Quince-trees in Mr. Alfred Smee's garden at Wallington this spring. — \V. G. Smith.

��SiSYEiNCHiUM Bekmudiana, L. — The British Isles are not the only Iialntat for this plant in the Old World. In the Kew herbarium there are numerous specimens collected in elevated situations in the island of IMauritius by Telfair, Bouton, and Ayres. It has also been recently sent to Kew from Australia (probably Queensland). — W. T. Tuiselton Dyer.

��Fungi in Shropshire.- — The woods in this county have been un- usually prolific in Fungi during the late rains, many of the common species being almost unrecognizable from their remarkable development in size and brilliancy of colour. Amongst the rarer species found I may name Hydnotri.a Tidas^iei, B. and Br., which I found in the Wrekin Wood, and which was kindly determined for me by C. E. Broome, Esq. It measured 3^ inches in circuniferenc e, but was not mature. On searching the same spot some time later in the month (.July), I was unsuccessful in finding another specimen. I also found Slrobiloviyces strofnlacens, Berk., in Whitclitf Wood, near Ludlow. This is a very remarkable Fungus, from its resemblance to the cone of the Scotch Fir, and the peculiar red tinge which the flesh assumes when it is cut or bruised. It is well figured on a reduced scale in Mr. Cooke's excellent ' Handbook of British Fungi.' In the same wood occurred several specimens of Hydiuim zonutum, Batsch, which presented the varying sheen in the spines exhi- bited by shot-silk, a peculiarity observed by Messrs. Berkeley and Broome in specimens found at Ascot in 1865. — W. Phillips.

��Alth/EA hirsuta, Z. — Mr. T. Fowell-Buxton writes to the ' Field ' that this species has been found in a disused brickfield in the parish of Stanstead Abbott, Ware, Hertfordshire. It occurred, I am informed, with Jlyssum hicuHiim, Snjjouaria Vaccai'ia, and other casuals. — H.

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��Rosa gallica in Suisrey. — I am indebted to INIr. Wilson Saunders for fine specimens of Rom c/alUca, gathered near Charlwood, in Surrey, with the following note upon the conditions under which it occurs: — " Where it grows it is as wild as Rom cunina^ R. ai'vensis, and R. mi- crantha, all found in the same broad copse-like hedge so frequent in some parts of Surrey and Sussex. It grows on the west side of this hedge, facing a cxjrnfield, through which there is no footpatli. There are two patches of the Rose, one aljout two or three yards in length, and con- taining only a few plants; the other many yards in length, and contain- ing a considerable number of plants. The Rose is of an upright growth, rising two to three feet among long grass and other herbage, etc., and fruiting freely. The cornfield alluded to is situate about intermediate between two farms, which are nearly half a mile ajjarf, and no buildings nearer. After diligent research, 1 cannot find the Rose in any other loca-

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