70 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



slopes and spurs of the Cordillera with an impenetrable mass of black- 

 ness. The most common tree is the Antarctic beech, which is often 

 draped with the long trailing shoots of the parasitic loranth, Myzo- 

 deiulron. The flora of this district comprises a number of characteristic 

 Patagonian plants, to which may be added the new species found by 

 JVichard, together with a Chilian or Andine, and a Southern, Fuegian 

 and Antarctic element. There are also several familiar northern 

 plants of arctic and alpine or temperate distribution, such as Phlmm 

 alpinum, Poa pratensis, Potent ilia anserina, and Sonchus asper. 



Philippine Plants.* — Elmer D. Merrill continues his study of the 

 flora of these islands. The present pamphlet contains descriptions of a 

 new Freycimtia, and several new Screw-Pines ; one of the latter, Pandanns 

 luzonensis, from the island of Luzon, is about 8 metres high. Also a 

 new Artocarpus from the same island, reaching 30 metres in height, 

 several new figs, a new Dlschklia, and various other novelties in different 

 orders. The author also gives a systematic account of the species of 

 Terminalia (eleven in number) found in the islands. 



Illustrations of German Orchids.! — The firm of Friedlander has 

 issued in an attractive form a volume on the wild orchids of Germany. 

 There are sixty coloured plates by Walter Miiller, and accompanying 

 descriptions by F. Kranzlin. The plates give excellent life-size repre- 

 sentations of the plant, together with enlarged figures of the flower 

 and its parts, the latter carefully drawn and showing well the details. 

 The descriptions are intelligibly written, and reference is made to points 

 of interest on pollination, distribution, variation, etc. As our British 

 orchid flora is wholly continental, the book appeals almost equally to 

 the British plant-lover, and is worth buying for the plates alone. 



British and Irish Botanists.:}:— The conclusion of the second 

 supplement of this useful list by J. Britten and G. S. Boulger includes 

 the years 1898-1002, and entries from Milne-Readhead to Thomas 

 Young. Besides the names of those more or less concerned in the 

 advancement of Botany, who have died in the stated interval, there 

 are a few omissions from previous lists. 



Notes on the Drawings for " English Botany."§ — F. N. A. Garry 

 has concluded his enumeration of the notes on the original drawings 

 for Sowerby's " English Botany." These drawings, upwards of 2500 in 

 number, including the Cryptogams, and the corresponding herbarium of 

 British plants, many of which were used for the figures, were bought in 

 1859 by the Trustees of the British Museum ; and three years later the 

 drawings of the first four volumes of the ' Supplement.' The original 

 work appeared in thirty-six volumes between the years 1790 and 1S14 ; 

 the descriptions were written by Sir James Edward Smith, and the 



* New and Noteworthy Philippine Plants. II. Department of the Interior, 

 Bureau of (lovernment Laboratories. Manila (1904) 47 pp., 3 pis. 



t Abbildungenderin Deutschland u. den angrenzenden gebieten vorkommenden 

 Grundformen der Orchideen-Arten. By Walter Miiller and F. Kranzlin. 60 plates, 

 with test. Friedlander, Berlin. 1904. 



X Journ. But., xlii. (1904) pp. 378-85. 



§ Op. cit.. xlii., xliii. (1903, 4) Supplement, p. 276. 





