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 80 NEW SPECIES OF PHANEROGAMOUS PLANTS.

is correctly pointed out with a figure in Dresser's ' Elements of Botany ' (p. 70, fig. 72). Other examples of an indefinite rhizome are supplied by Menyanthes trifoliata and Butotnits timheUatus. St. Hilaire (' jMorphologie Yegetale ') gives Scirpns palnsfi-is and mnlticaidis, but it seems probable that the Cyperacece have all definite rhizomes as Avell as Juncea: and grasses. However, the underground economy of plants is an almost untouched subject in this country, although every collecting botanist might contribute something to our knowledge by the dissection and study of promising specimens. — W. T. Thiselton Dyer.

��Can any botanist allow me the examination of a specimen of Opegrapha calcarea, Turn. (Eng. Bot. 1790), authenticated by Mr. Turner himself? None such exists in the Turner herbarium, Eorrer herbarium, nor Sowerby herbarium at Kew and the British Museum. — W. A. Leighton.

Krempelhuber, in his * Geschichte und Litteratur der Lichenologie,' vol. ii. p. 507, refers LicheH terrestris minimus fiiscns of Kay's ' Synopsis,' 2nd ed. App. p. 331, to Obryzum cornicnlntum. Wall. Can any one who has examined Ilay's herbarium in British Museum inform me whether this is correct, or are the specimens referable to Leptoyium palmatum, Mut. (Eng. Bot. t. 1635)?— W. A. Leighton.

In Buddie's herbarium at the British Museum, vol. cxiv. fol. 8. n. 3, is an authentic specimen, labelled " Lichen terrestris minimus fnscus, Doody, in Appendix Hay Syn., Bobart Hist. Oxon. part 3. sect. 15. t. 7. f. 4. R. suppl. 48." It seems to be rather a state of Leptogium simiatum thati o^ L. palmatum. At all events the specimen is infertile, and certainly affords no warrant for the inference that it is Obryzum corniculatmn, Wallr. — J. M. Crombie.

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��NEW SPECIES OE PHANEROGAMOUS PLANTS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN DURING THE YEAR 1870.

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Drimta Burchellii, Baiter {Liliacea;) ; folia synanthia, carnoso- herbacea, lorato-lanceolata, glabra, 7-8 poll, longa, 1 poll, lata ; scapus foliis suba?quans ; raceraus 8-9 poll, longus, 1 poll, latus, 60-1 00-florus; pedicelli erecto-patentes, 2-3 lin. longi, bracteis linearibus subrequantes ; perigonium 5-6 lin. longum, laciniis tubo triple longioribus. C. B. S. — BurcJtell, 4769 ! Zeyher, 754 \— Appendix, Ref. Bot. p. 2.

D. ROBUSTA, Baker; bulbo solitario hypogseo, foliis 6-9 erectis synan- thiis lorato-lanceolatis tripedalibus glabris acutis, carnoso-herbaceis ira- maculatis, scapo erecto tereti stricto tripedali, racemo subpedali modice laxo, pedicellis floribus cernuis et bracteis lanceolato-acuminatis subae- quantibus, perigonio extrorsum viridi intus piirpureo tincto, laciniis ligu- latis cucullatis tubo campanulato 3-4-plo longioribus, filamentis linearibus conniventibus laciniis paullo brevioribus, ovarii loculis multiovulatis. — Hab. Cape Colony, Hort. Saunders, from Mr. Cooper. — Ref. Bot. t. 190.

Drimiopsis minor, Baker (Liliaceo') ; bulbo globoso tertio supcriore

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