Pteridophyten. — Floristik etc. 497 



Verf. schildert noch die Entwicklung der bis zu 3 m hohen 

 Farnwedel und die Anatomie des Adlerfaingrundstockes, an dem 

 schon makroskopisch zwei gegenüberliegende, den Lentizellen der 

 höheren Pflanzen zu vergleichende hellbraune Streifen auffallen. 



Infolge des grossen Stärkereichtunos der Rhizcme hat der 

 Adlerfarn z. ß. auf Neeseeland und den Kanarischen Inseln 

 als Nahrungsmittel Verwendung gefunden. Jedenfalls kann er auch 

 in unseren Gegenden in Zeiten der Not als nahrhaftes Schweine- 

 futier verwandt werden. H..Klenke. 



Ashe, W. W„ A new shrubby buckeye. (Journ. Wash. Acad. 

 Sei. III. p. 424. 1913.) 



Aesaihis mict'ocarpa, related to A. octandra. Trelease. 



Bailey, L. H., Some present needs in systematic botany. 

 (Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. LIV. p. 58—65. Apr. 1915.) 



Subordination of "the nomenclature question", especially in 

 view of the fact that the public at large has real rights in the na- 

 mes of plants; reaching an agreement on generic fixity in conser- 

 vative limitation; and careful study of a few groups, by growing 

 the plants under Observation and as far as possible under condi- 

 tions of control and always in comparison with living feral mate- 

 rial; — this latter spoken of as the greatest need in systematic 

 botany, — are the topics discussed. Trelease. 



Ball, C. R., Notes on North American Willows. II. lEoi. 

 Gaz. XL. p. 45—54. f. 1—3. July 1915.) 



Contains as new: Salix pennata. Trelease. 



Blake, S. F., A revision oi Salmea and some allied genera 

 (Journ. Bot. LIII. 631. p. 193-202.) 



In dealing with the genus Salmea the following new combina- 

 tions are made: 5. angiistifolia Benth. z=z Verbesina angttstifoUa 

 (Benth.), S. fniticulosa (Spreng.) Steud. = Snnsia friiticulosa (Spreng.), 

 5. mikanioides, Britton =: Zexmenia mikaiiioides (Britton), 5. pattci- 

 ceps Griseb. == Spüanthes paiiciceps Griseb. The genus Salmeopsis 

 is also described, and a key given to the species of Notoptera which 

 will be dealt with individually in a later paper. 



E. M. Jesson (Kew). 



Blatter, E., The Palms of British India and Ceylon, indi- 

 genous and introduced. (Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, XXII. 

 p. 265-281. 1914; XXIII. p. 269—281. 1914; p. 516—531. 1915 et 

 p. 737-744. 1915 cum tab.) 



The four parts quoted are in continuation of previous papers 

 in the same Journal and deal with the sub-tribes Morenieae and 

 Areceae up to and including Acanihophoenix. 



VV. G. Craib (Kew). 



Britten, J., An overlooked Chinchona. (Journ. Bot. LIII. 629, 

 p. 137—138.) 



The füll synonymy of the plant originally described by Richard 



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