492 Pteridophyten. — Floristik u. Systematik der Phanerogamen. 



Paul, David, On the Ferns, especially theFilmyFerns, 

 of Jamaica. (Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh. XXII. 1901. 

 p. 1 — 12.) 



A presidential address, treating chiefly of the climate and fern-flora 

 of Jamaica, and in particular of the genera Hymenophyllum and Tricho- 

 manes, with a series of field-notes upon the occurrence of the various 

 specles. A. Gepp. 



Underwood, Lucien M., Botrychlum silaifolliim P r e s 1. (Torreya. 

 V. p. 106—107. June 1905.) 



The name Botrychiiim silaifolium originally given by Pres! to 

 plants from „Nootka-Sund", was incorrectly applied by the writer in 1898 

 to Californian plants, and the plants from near the type locality of 

 silaifolium were then described as B. occidentale sp. nov. The present 

 note is to restore silaifolium to its original application, occidentale being 

 regarded as a synonym. The Californian plant receives the new 

 name B. Californicum Underwood. Maxon. 



Baker, E. Q., Notes o n Cardamine. (Journal of Botany. 

 Vol. XLIII. 1905. No. 513. p. 254—256.) 



The author discusses C. chilensis DC. and C. vlrginica L. — The 

 iormer species is an ally of C. africana L. with trifoliate leaves^ but the 

 species was misunderstood by several subsequent writers, probably first 

 by Berte ro in 1S35, who referred to it a plant with either simple or 

 1 — 2-jugate leaves, which appears to stand i/ery dose to C nana Barn., 

 O.E.Schulz in his monograph quotes B e r t e r o' s plant a^ C. chilensis 

 and unites C. nana to it as a variety. — The specimen labelled C. virgi- 

 nica L. in the Linnean Herbarium has been identified by N. L. Britton 

 as Sisymbrium asperum L. of S. Europe. Poiret in 1810 in trans- 

 forming the Linnean species to Arabis included C. virginica Michx. as 

 a_ synonym, but the latter plant is quite different from the plant of 

 Linneus (— C arenicola according to Britton). The Gronovian plant 

 (Clayton No. 462), which is in the National Herbarium = Arabis virgi- 

 nica Poiret ^ Cardamine virginica L. non Linn. Herb. ^ Arabis Ludo- 

 viciana C. A. Meyer. F. E. Fritsch. 



Blau, J., Vergleichend-anatomische Untersuchung 

 d er seh vveizer i s chen y/f/7c«5- A rt en. (Zürich 1904. S''. 

 82 pp. 4 pl.) 



II resulte de ce travail que la structure interne des Juncus de !a 

 flore suisse est remarquablement constante chez les individus de chaque 

 «spece. Les details anatomiques peuvent donc ici etre utilises par la 

 systematique pour completer les diagnoses tirees de la morphologie 

 externe. A la suite d'un examen approfondi de toutes les especes 

 suisses_, l'auteur est arrive ä en dresser une clef analytique basee 

 exclusivement sur l'anatomie de la tige et de la feuille. 



A. de Candolle. 



Britten, J., Notes on Erica BniniadesL. (lournal of Botany. 



Vol. XLIII. 1905. No. 513. p. 256~-257.) 



The author points out that under E. Bruniades Linneus does not 

 quote the correct synonym Eriocephalus Bruniades africana, etc., of 

 Plukenet, öut Eriocephalus bruniades ericaeformis, etc. (Pluk. Mant. 

 69, t. 347) which is figured on the same plate and occurs on the same 

 page in Hb. S 1 o a n e. This latter phrase however really belongs to E. 

 capitata L., whereas the former is tfie correct synonym for E. Bruniades 



