Floristik und Systematik der Phanerogamen. 77 



SUKSDORF, W., Lieber einige Nemophila -Formen. (West 

 American Scientist. X!V. April 1903. p. 31—33.) 



Contains the following names : ;V. minutiflor a (N. Mensiesü ininuti- 

 flora, Suksdorf); N. reticulata and .V. erosa. Trelease. 



Va!L, Anna M., Studies in the Asclepiadaceae. VII. A new 

 species of Vlncetoxicum from Alabama. (Bulletin of the 

 Torrey Botanical Club. XXX. March 1903. 178—179. 

 pl. 9—10.) 

 V. Alabamense, from Dale County, Alabama. Trelease. 



Verrill, A. E., The Bermuda Islands: their scenery, 

 climate, productions, physiography, natural 

 history and geology; with sketches of their 

 early history and the changes due to man. (Trans- 

 actions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

 XI. 1902. Part II. 413—911. ff. 1—243. p. 65—104.) 



This very comprehensive treatment of the Bermudas gives a ge- 

 neral description of the Islands, an account of their physiography, meteo- 

 rology, etc., of their productions and exports, changes in the flora and 

 fauna due to man, etc., and a bibliography of the literature of the 

 Islands. 



156 species of land plants are considered to be native, and the 

 total number of plants and ferns is about 350; Algae include about 140 

 species; Mosses, 8; Hepaticas, 6; Lichens, 32; and Fungi, 32. The 

 work is the most important scientific treatise on the Bermudas yet 

 published. Trelease. 



Vogler, P., Die Bedeutung der Verbreitungsmittel 

 der Pflanzen in der alpinen Region. (Naturwissen- 

 schaftliche Wochenschrift. N. F. Band 1. 1901/02. p. 253— 255.) 



Verf. führt aus, dass im Gegensatz zu den Pflanzen des Flachlandes,, 

 von den eigentlichen Alpenpflanzen der' grösste Theil (59,5°/' ) an eine 

 Verbreitung der Samen durch den Wind angepasst ist^ während die 

 Thiere in den alpinen Regionen als Verbreitungsagens für die Pflanzen- 

 samen von nur sehr geringer, das Wasser von fast gar keiner Bedeutung 

 sind. Laubert (Berlin). 



W., C. H., New or Noteworthy Plants. Ipomoea Mahonl 



C. H. Wright. (The Gardeners' Chronicle. Vol. XXXIIL 



3rd ser. 1903. No. 852. p. 257—258.) 



The new species belongs to the section Orthipomoea-integrifoliae. 

 The leaves are oblong and obtuse at both ends, the large flowers are 

 reddish-purple inside the corolla-tube, becoming almost or quite white in 

 the limb. F. E. Fritsch. 



W., C. H., New or Noteworthy Plants. New Chinese 

 Viburniims. (The Gardeners' Chronicle. Vol. XXXIIL 

 3rd ser. 1903. No. 852. p. 257.) 



Vibunium Veitchii C. H. Wright and V. buddleifolia C. H. Wright, 

 both new species, are described. In the former which is allied to V. 

 erosum Thunb. the young branches, petioles and under surface of the 

 ovate, dentate leaves are covered with a stellate, floccose tomentum; the 



