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1524. Riddelsdell, H. J. Gloucestershire [England] Notes. Jour. Botany 57:350-353. 

 1919 — The paper consists of critical notes on the distribution of about 30 species in Gloucester- 

 shire. — K. M. Wiegand. 



1525. Thompson, H. S. Euphrasia hircella Jord. Jour. Botany 58: 25. 1920.— Further 

 notes on the occurrence of this species in Britain. This is supplementary to the author's 

 paper in Jour. Botany, Dec, 1919. — K. M. Wiegand. 



1526. Wallis, Anthony, edited by C. E. Salmon. Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire 

 plants [Wales]. Jour. Botany 57: 345-350. 1919. — An account is given of the life of Wallis. 

 The paper consists mainly of notes on the distribution of a large number of species in various 

 families. Those from the two counties are listed separately. — K. M. Wiegand. 



1527. Weatherby, C. A. An omission in the preliminary list of New England Ranuncu- 

 laceae. Rhodora 21 : 104. 1919. — In the list of New England Ranunculaceae (published in 

 Rhodora 20: 182. 1918) the one New England record for Cimicifuga racemosa (L.) Nutt., 

 var. dissecta Gray was omitted. The plant in question was collected by E. H. Eames at 

 Stratford, Connecticut, in 1893. — James P. Poole. 



1528. Winslow, E. J. Willoughby Lake, Vt., a candidate for the title of "Richest fern 

 locality." Amer. Fern Jour. 9: 107-109 1919.— The Willoughby list, containing 35 species, 

 is compared with the lists of three other localities; 27 species are common to all four locali- 

 ties, and the combined lists contain only 40 species, which is only 6 less than the list for all 

 New England and New York, north of Connecticut. — F. C. Anderson. 



1529. Woodward, R. W. Some Connecticut plants. Rhodora 21: 114-116. 1919.— The 

 writer reports what appears to be Philotria angustifolia (Muhl.) Britton growing in brackish 

 water near Old Lyme, Connecticut. He could find no printed record of its previous occurrence 

 in brackish water. Lophotocarpus spongiosus is also reported as growing quite abundantly at 

 one station in the same town. It was previously reported as of rare occurrence there. Other 

 plants which the author reports as having collected in various parts of the state are Panicum 

 virgatum cubense, Elymus riparius , Carex glaucodea, Eriocaulon Parkeri, Actaea rubra neglecta, 

 Aquilegia canadensis flaviflora, and Epilobium molle. — James P. Poole. 



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1530. Anonymous. Brazil wood. Kew Bull. Misc. Inf. [London] 1920:79-80. 1920 — 

 Notes on Haematoxylon brasiletto, the wood of which was formerly an important article of 

 commerce. Notes are given also on Caesalpinia bahamensis, the wood of which furnishes a 

 similar dyestuff. — E. Mead Wilcox. 



1531. Anonymous. Helgelands Skogselskab. [Report from the Forestry Association at 

 Helgeland, Norway.] Tidsskr. Skogbruk 28: 129-130. 1920.— The writer relates the interest- 

 ing fact that Norway spruce, which had been planted out on the wind-swept dunes near the 

 sea, had developed laterally only during the first years, as if to gain protection to the roots. 

 After some years the trees at once began to assume their usual height growth. — J. A. Larsen. 



1532. Anonymous. The new flagstaff at Kew. Kew Bull. Misc. Inf. [London] 1919: 393- 

 399. PL 12-13. 1919.— The new flagstaff is 214 feet high and made from a 400-year-old tree 

 of Pseudotsuga douglasii from Canada. — E. Mead Wilcox. 



1533. Anonymous. [Reports from the forest associations in different parts of the country 

 [Norway]. Tidsskr. Skogbruk 28: 126-132. 1920. 



