216 Floristik und Systematik der Phanerogamen. 



WEBER, A v Notes sur quelques Agaves du Mexique 



occidental et de la Basse-Californie. (Bulletin du 



Musdum d'Histoire naturelle. III. 1902. p. 218—224. 2 fig.) 



Les materiaux rapportes par MM. Diguet en 1894 et 1899, et 

 Cumenge en 1895, ont permi de determiner V Agave fournissant l'eau- 

 de-vie connue sous le nom de Mezcal de Tequila; c'est une 

 espece nouvelle, VA. tequilana Weber (p. 220, fig. 1 et 2), differente de 

 celle qui produit le pulque on vin d'Agave (A.Salmiana). On emploie 

 aussi quelquefois ä cet usage VA. aurea Brandeger et VA. deserti Engel- 

 mann. Une seconde espece nouvelle sans utilisation mentionnee est 

 IM. Datylio Web. (p. 224). Henri Hua. 



Williams, Frederic N., Hleraclum anglicum Fries, and its 

 varieties. (Journal of Botany. Vol. XL. 1902. p. 257 

 —360.) 



The author recognises, in this „tentative and, as it were, introduc- 

 tory" paper, the following British iorms of the well-known H. anglicum 

 Fries: «) genuin um Syme, ß) acutifolium Backh., y) jaculifolium F. J. 

 Hanb., 3) longibracteatum F. J. Hanb., *) calcaratum E. F. Linton fratt., 

 £) amplexicaule Backh., yj) Hartii (H. cerintheforme var. Hartii Hanb) 

 Williams var. nov. Donegal), #) brevifurcatum Williams var. nov. (Carnar- 

 vonshire). In the authors opinion H. Langwellense and H. Carenorum 

 (nos. 923 and 928 in the last edition of the Lo ndo n Catalogue) should 

 be referred to H. anglicum. H. H. W. Pearson. 



WILLIS, J. C, Note on the Flora of Minikoi. (Annais of 



the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya. Vol. I. 1901. p. 39 



-43.) 



A list of 134 species recorded from Minikoi. In 1893, Dr. Prain 

 published a list of 113 species. A collection made in the island in 1899 

 by Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner adds 21 species, 5 of which however are 

 indeterminable. The flora is very similar to that of the Maldive Islands. 

 It contains many weeds introduced from Ceylon by human agencies. The 

 general bearings of the facts recorded in the note are discussed in a 

 paper on „The Botany of the Maldive Islands" (Willis, J. C. and 

 Gardiner, J. Stanley in Annais of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Pera- 

 deniya. 1. c. p. 45—164.) H. H. W. Pearson. 



Trail, James W. H., Scottish Rubi. (Annais of Scottish 

 Natural History. July 1902. p. 170—176 [to be continued].) 



Of the 169 forms of Rubi that have been distinguished in the British 

 Islands, only 65 are known with certainty from Scotland. The author 

 brings together what is already on record for each Scottish vice-county 

 and for each form. Lists for the vice-counties of Dumfries. Kirkcudbright, 

 Wigton, Ayr, Renfrew and Lanark are given in this paper. 



H. H. W. Pearson. 



Moore, Spencer Le M., Alabastra dlversa. Part IX. [Dr. Rand's 

 Rhodesian Rubiaceae and Asclepiadaceae.} (Journal of 

 Botany. Vol. XL. 1902. p. 250—256. — To be continued.) 



The following new species are described : Oldenlandia rhodesiana 

 Salisbury, Pentamisia sericocarpa Salisbury, P. rhodesiana Salisbury, 

 Vangueria Randii Buluwayo, Anthospermum Randii Salisbury, Xysma- 

 lobium gramineum Buluwayo ; Schizoglossum strictissimum Buluwayo, 

 Asclepias Randii Salisbury, Cynanchum praecox Schlechter in litt., Salis- 

 bury district. The following are new varieties: Fadogia stenophylla 



