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Runge, Engler travelled through the sandy deserts, rocky steppes, and bush growth of that 

 region. Vivid descriptions of the vegetation are given. — (IV) Explorations in Papuasia. 

 Dr. Lauterbach had collected there in 1890-91, 18%, 1899, and 1900. In 1907-09 came the 

 Guttapercha-Caoutchouc Expedition of the Colonial Committee under B< HLBCHTEB. From 

 this trip Schlechter reported 11G genera and 1 150 species of orchids, 348 of the latter being 

 new. To be mentioned also is the Dutch expedition of LoBENTZ and Newbury in 1901, of 

 which Versteeg was botanist; also the later German expedition of Leonhard Schultze 

 Jena and Dr. Moskowski. A list is given of the collaborators who have worked on the 

 Lauterbach and Schlechter material. — A'. .1/. Wiegand. 



311. Jeanpert, Ed. Enumeration des plantes recueillies par M. R. Chudeau dans le Sou- 

 dan. [List of plants collected by M. R. Chudeau in the Soudan.] Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 

 [Paris] 25: 64-GS. 1919. 



312. Jeaxpert, Ed. Enumeration de plantes de Macedoine. [Enumeration of plants of 

 Macedonia.] Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. [Paris] 25: 391-397, 517-523. 1919.— In these, the first 

 and second papers of a series, the author gives a list of species collected in Macedonia by 

 several collectors with localities of each species when they are known. — E. B. Payson. 



313. Knowlton, C. H., and Walter Deane. Reports on the flora of the Boston District. 

 — XXXII. Rhodora 22 : 72-75. 1920. — A continuation of the report of the Committee on Local 

 Flora of the New England Botanical Club. Reported species and their distribution in the 

 district about Boston, Massachusetts. — James P. Poole. 



314. Pampanini, R. L'Erbario di Paolo Boccone conservato a Lione. [The herbarium of 

 Paolo Boccone at Lyon.] Nuovo Gior. Bot. Ital. 26: 1-20. 1919. 



315. Pampanini, R., and V. Zanon. Nuovo contributi alia conoscenza della Flora della 

 Cirenaica. [New contribution to the knowledge of the flora of Cirenaica.] Nuovo Gior. Bot. 

 Ital. 26: 205-221. 1919. — A list of vascular plants, fungi and lichens collected in Bengasi 

 during 1917 and 1918, reported for the first time were the following: Ephedra campylopoda 

 C. A. Mey., Roemeria lenuifolia Pamp., sp. n., Ranunculus bullatus L. var. cyrenaicus Pamp., 

 var. n. Linaria Haelava Chav. var. cyrenaica Pamp., var. n. — Ernst Artschwager. 



316. Pellegrin, Francois. Les collections botaniques recoltees par la Mission de delim- 

 itation Congo Francais-Cameroun. [The botanical collections made by the Congo French- 

 Cameroun Mission of delimitation.] Bull. Mus. Hist, Nat. [Paris] 25: 381-386, 506-511. 1919. 

 — In continuation of a similar list previously published, the author gives a list of plants 

 collected by the Mission wdth various notes concerning the species. Mostuea Periquetii is 

 described as a species new to science. — E. B. Payson. 



317. Schaffner, John H. Additions to the catalog of Ohio vascular plants for 1919. 

 Ohio Jour. Sci. 20: 131-136. 1920. — A check list of 72 additions to the State Herbarium gives 

 their local distribution, various changes in nomenclature and other corrections. — H. D. 

 Hooker, Jr. 



318. Schoolbred, W. A. The flora of Chepstow. 8vo. X + 140 p., 1 map. Taylor and 

 Francis: London, 1920. — The region covered by this flora is that of the lower part of the Val- 

 ley of the Wye in South Wales and comprises approximately an area of 100 square miles. 

 About 1000 species of flowering plants, ferns, and fern-allies are enumerated and 179 species 

 of mosses supplement this list. The habitat of each species is carefully recorded, but there 

 are no descriptions nor keys. — J. M. Greenman. 



319. Sedgwick, L. J. On the use of the term "variety" in systematics. Jour. Indian 

 Bot, 1: 120-124. 1919. — The author discusses the problem of "whether the term variety as 

 used in our floras is applied to one natural phenomenon only," and if not, "whether there is 

 any way of separating out the various phenomena hitherto confused under the one term, 



