478 Floristik und Systematik der Phanerogamen. 



LOTSY, J. P. , Photographies de plantes interessantes 

 Z. Nicolaia solaris (Bl.) V aleton. (Rec. Trav. bot. neerland. II. 



1905. 1/2. p. 175—176.) 



Description de cette espece en allemand, accompagnee d'une 

 planche photographique r^duite reprdsentant le port de la plante 

 avec son inflorescence. Le genre Nicolaia dtait considdre comme 

 sous-genre par K. Schumann; M. Valeton le considere comme 

 genre et en publiera la monographie dans les Monocotyldes de la 

 Flore de Buitenzorg que M. J. P. Lotsy compte publier. 



E. De Wildeman. 



Marshall, E. S., The Status of some Britannic Plauts. 

 (Journal of Botany. Vol. XLIV. No. 522. June 1906. p. 207— 213.) 



The author discusses the nativity or alien character of a consi- 

 derable number of plants, dealt with in Dünn 's „Alien Flora of 

 Britain", frequently Coming to a different conclusion. The author 

 points out that if the European distribution of a given species is 

 mainly eastern, the prima facie inference will be against its in- 

 clusion as a British native. But this has to be corrected and modi- 

 fied by the known occurrence of a good many „outliers". 



F. E. Fritsch. 



OsTERHOUT, G. E., Colorado notes. (Muhlenbergia. 1. July 30, 



1906. p. 139—143.) 



Descriptions of Albionla montanensis, Astragaliis puniceus, Eri- 

 geron paucipetalus, Gnaphalium albatum, Carduus laterifolius, Pti- 

 localais tenuifoUa, Crepis exilis, and Agoseris leptocarpa, — all con- 

 sidered as new. Trelease. 



Reader, F. M., Contributions to the Flora of Victoria. 

 No. XVI. (Victorian Naturalist. Vol. XXIII. No. 1. 1906. p. 23.) 



The author describes a new species of Centrolepis(C.plaiyclilamys), 

 which is closely allied to C. muscoides, differing in the smaller and 

 broader bracts and the absence of scales. F. E. Fritsch. 



Rolfe, R. A., New or Noteworthy Plants. Mexican Enpa- 



toriums. (The Gardener's Chronicle. Vol. XXXIX. 3. ser. 



1906. No. 1010. p. 274.) 



The author deals with three Eupatoriums in flower in the Green- 



house at Kew, two of which have been figured in the Gard. Chron. 



under a vtrrong name. E. Purpusi (=^ E. petiolare, Gard. Chron. 



1901. I. p. 379. Fig. 142) is an erect herbaceous plant with cor- 



date roughly toothed leaves. E. Purpusi var. monticola (figured as 



E. petiolare, loc. cit. 1904. I, Fig. 68) appears to be specifically 



distinct and the name E. viscosissimum is suggested, owing to the 



markedly glandular-viscid character of the upper portion of the plant. 



E. trapezoideum Kunth is a tall, much branched plant with trapezoid- 



ovate, coarsely toothed leaves. F. E. Fritsch. 



Rouv, G., Lettre sur quelques plantes de la flore fran- 

 9aise. (Bull. herb. Boiss. T. V. 1905. p. 544—551.) 



L'auteur r^fute certaines critiques qui lui ont €i€ faites dans 

 rindex botanique universel; puis il fait quelques remarques 



