Floristik, Geographie, Systematik etc. 309 



Rhodes sont nouvelles pour cette ile; 16 des 17 especes recoltees 

 sont nouvelles pour Siampalia. Les auteurs ^tablissent de paral- 

 leles avec la flore des autres lies de la mer Egee, et remarquant 

 le caractere de xerophilie tres marquee de la flore de Rhodes et 

 de Stampalia. C Bonaventura (Firenze). 



Blumer, J. C, Notes on the Phvtogeography of theAri- 

 zona Desert. (Plant World. XV. p. 183—189. Aug. 1912.; 



The paper details the observations made on a trip into the 

 Cabali, Comobali and Quijotoa mountains and the surrounding 

 country, including the Qui-i-to-woc-hills about 75 to 100 miles 

 vs^est of Tucson, Arizona. The desert flora consists of Parkinsoftta 

 microphylla , as the most abundant tree, associated with the giant 

 cactus, Carnegta gigantea. Other species noted in this paper are 

 Lemaireocereus Thurheri, Opuntia Higelovii, Simniondsia californica, 

 while the Vegetation of the summits of the desert ranges is con- 

 sidered in some detail, as well, as the Quijotoa Valley flora. 



Harshberger. 



Bolus, H., Orchids of South Africa. III. (W. Wesley & Son. 

 Strand. 1813. Price 30/-.) 

 This volume contains 100 plates and descriptions of extra-tropical 

 South African orchids. Amongst them one plant is described and 

 figured for the first time, namely. Holothrix Reckii,Bo\\xs, from the 

 Transvaal. M. L. Green (Kew). 



Bolzon, P., Una singulare stazione di piantexerotermi 

 che in Valle d'Aosta. (Bull. Soc. bot. ital. 8 pp. 1912.) 



La Vallee d'Aosta possede plusieurs Clements xerophiles m^- 

 diterraines ou steppiques, et plusieures especes endemiques; de 

 pareilles colonies xerothermiques sont reprdsentees aussi dans la 

 Vallee de Suse et dans d'autres vallees alpines. 



C. Bonaventura (Firenze). 



Brown, G., Survey of the Vegetation of the parish of 

 Shotts, Lanarkshire. (Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh, XXVI. 2. 

 p. 101 — 118. 1 map. 1 flg. 1913.) 



A preliminary account of an area in Mid -Sco tl and , from 

 ihe main watershed vt^estwards. The soils are mainly glacial with 

 iocal outcrops of dolerites. Woodland is scantily present, mainly 

 Betula, with plantations of Fagus and Pinus sylvestris Grassland 

 occurs in the dolerite ridges, also as grass heath on the moorland, 

 and as artificial pasture; representative lists of species are given. 

 The moorland is on peat with Eriophorum and Callima. 



W. G. Smith. 



Carse, H., On some additions of th e flora to the Mangonui 

 County. (Trans. New Zealand Inst. XLV. p. 276—277. 1913.) 



The following new species are described Corokia Cheesernanii, 

 Carse, Thelymitra Matthewsii, Cheeseman, Corysanthes Car sei, Chee- 

 seman. " M. L. Green (Kew). 



