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fields, and indicates the storwi-swept nature of these exposed islands. 

 A complete list of the plants of the two localities is given; the M u 11 e t 

 peninsula has about 350 species, or almost twice as many as the islands. 

 The paper is a continuation of the author's studies on the fiora of the 

 West coast of Ireland (see also Bot. Cent. XCVIH. p. 236). 



W. G. Smith (Leeds). 



Rendle, A. B., New Monocotyledons from China and 

 Tibet. (Journal of Botany. Vol. XLIV. No. 518. February 

 1906. p. 41—46. Plate 476.) 



The following new plants are described: 



Aleiris gracilis (near A, nepalensis Hook, f., but distinguished by 

 quite glabrous stem^ more deeply divided perianth, and longer filaments) ; 

 AUium (Rhiziridium) tibeticum (near A. sikkimense Baker^ but distinct 

 in its smaller, less campanulate flowers^ with the alternate stamens 

 broad-shouldered and often toothed); A. (Rhiziridium) phariense (near 

 A. blandum Wall., but mach smaller and also distinguished by its very 

 shortly pedicelled white flowers); A. (Rhiziridium) fasciculatum (perhaps 

 nearest A. odorum L., but distinguished by its smaller flowers, the coarse 

 persistent fibres of the obsolete bulb-scale, and the absence of an obli- 

 que jointed rootstock); A. (Rhiziridium) Hugonianum (near A. Bakeri 

 Regel, but differs in its more compact umbel, and slightly smaller bright 

 blue flowers) ; A. (Rhiziridium) plurifoliatum (umbel and flowers like 

 those of A. Bakeri Regel, but the flowers are smaller, and the habit of 

 the plant distinct in the leafy stem) ; A. (Molium) tubiflorum (near A. 

 chineiise Don, but distinguished by its less robust habit, lax umbel with 

 markedly unequal pedicels, and blunt reflexed petals); Fritillaria flavida 

 (near F. Stracheyi Hook, fil., from which it differs in its yellow flowers 

 with rather narrower petals); Junciis Kingi (memher of alpini group, 

 near /. leucomelas Royle, but distinct in its densely, many-flowered, 

 Compound, straw-coloured head, shortly exserted anthers and stoloni- 

 ferous habit); J. spectabilis (inflorescence recalls /. leucanthus Royle, 

 but distinguished by the absence of the cauline leaf; near/. Thomsoni 

 Buchenau, but a much more robust plant. F. E. Fritsch. 



ViGNOLO-LUTATi, J., Sul valore sistematico della Poa 



Cilianensis All. (Malpighia. Vol. XVlIl. [1904.] Fase. VI 



—IX. p. 380—387.) 



Le botaniste piemontais Bellardi a recolte ä Ciliano 

 (Piemont) en 1785 une Festucace'e qui füt consideree comme nouvelle 

 par Allioni, auquel il la communiqua, et nommee Poa Cilianensis. 

 Les auteurs que se sont occupes apres lui de floristique piemontais e 

 ont interprete tres differemment cette forme, et l'auteur de cette note 

 tranche la question, par l'examen soigne d'un tres abondant materiel 

 d'herbier, en reconnaissant la plante en question comme une forme 

 atypique et insuffisamment developpee d'Eragrostis megastachya Lk. 



G. Negri. 



WiTTMACK, L., Our present knowledge of ancient 

 plants. (Trans. Ae. Sc. St. Louis. XV. 1. Feb. 1905. 

 p. 1 — 15.) 



Vegetable relics found in sepulchres and temples of extinct races 

 are the most important source of our knowledge of ancient plants. 



A general review of the work of others is given, together with an 

 account of the writer's investigations, especially of those dealing with 

 the seeds, fruits etc. found at Pomp ei and in the sepulchers of the 

 ancient Peruvians at Ancon near Lima. From data gathered here it 

 is concluded that the garden bean ( Phaseolus vulgaris), the pumpkins 



