222 Floristik, Geographie, Horticultur etc. 



Eastern Himalayan forms, whilst others show relationship to Japanese 

 species; a large number are endemic. The following new species 

 are described: Pimis densata (with thickened cushion-like apophyses, 

 resin-canals mostly subepidermal); P. pronwiens (allied to P. densißora 

 and P. densata) ; Picea purpurea ; P. Wafsoinajia (with a verj^ marked 

 Prolongation of the pulvinus into a short erect petiole); P. asperata 

 (similar to the last, but with setose and less distinctly petioled pulvini 

 etc.); P. aurantiaca (with deep orange-coloured bark and linear 

 pulvini scarcely dilated apically); P. retroßexa (with sharply jdecurved 

 cone-scales); Abies recurvata (with strongly decurved, but assurgent 

 leaves.) F. E. Fritsch. 



Mez, C, Myrsinaceae novae philippinenses. (Philippine Journal of 

 Science. I. Supplement 4. p. 271—275. Sept. 15. 1906.) 



Maesa Elmeri^ Ardisia Whitfordii , A. copelandii, A. racemoso- 

 panicidata , A. Ebneri, Amblyanthopsis phüippinensis , and Discocalyx 

 Merrülii. Trelease. 



Petrie, D., Description of a new native grass. (Transactions and 

 Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute for 1905. Vol. XXXVIII. 

 p. 423-424. 1906.) 



Poa astoni n. sp. appears to be included in Festuca scoparia 

 Hook f. (= Poa litorosa Cheesemanj. The latter species includes two 

 distinct grasses, P. astoni and the true Festuca scoparia, which is 

 confined to the southern off-islands (Aucklands, Campbells, etc.) 

 and is not known to extend to the main islands of New Zealand. 



F. E. Fritsch. 



Piper, C. V., Notes on Calochortus. (Bulletin of the Torrey Bo- 

 tanical Club. XXXIII. p. 537-540. October 1906.) 



Notes on C nanus, C. subalpinus , C. Lyallii and C. elegans , — 

 of which the first (= C. elegan'^ nanus, Wood) receives a new binomial. 



Trelease. 



Praeger, R. L., Irish topographical Botany. Supplement, 

 1901—1905. (Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Vol. XXVI. 

 Sect. B. NO. 2. p. 13—45. 1906.) 



Since the publication of the author's 'Irish topographical Botany' 

 in 1901, the knowledge of Irish geographical botany has advanced 

 rapidly; each year this advance has been summarised in the Irish 

 Naturalist and the author now publishes the whole as a Supplement. 

 Twenty-four plants are thus added to the Irish list, three of which 

 {Rubus Lettii, R. dunensis and Hieraciiim. Scullyi) are new forms, 

 not yet recorded elsewhere; whilst the new Fiimaria purpurea has 

 been detected in Great-Britain as well. Another new record is 

 Glyceria festucaeformis, a Mediterranean grass, as yet unknown in 

 Great-Britain. On the other band four plants {Fumaria niuralis, 

 Rubus gratus, R. pubescens and Hieraciuni cerinthiforme) are with- 

 drawn. Details are given of extension of ränge or of division-records 

 which have been withdrawn, whilst the greater body of the paper 



