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but the latter contains descriptions of new plants, and the actual 

 date of their publication should be noted. We are glad to observe 

 that our animadversions on the index to previous volumes of this 

 work have been followed by a great improvement in that for 1894. 

 The Trinidad Garden also issues a Bulletin of Miscellaneous Informa- 

 tion, which is now printed in a convenient form, and appears with 

 promptitude — the January number reached us during the month of 

 issue. It is to be regretted that some distinctive appellation is not 

 added to the titles of these publications ; Mr. Fawcett has avoided 

 possible inconvenience by calling his journal the Bulletin of the 

 Botanical Department, Jamaica. His issue for Oct. -Dec. is devoted 

 to an interesting guide to the Castleton Gardens. We note that 

 these colonial publications are supplied free to residents in the 

 island they represent. 



A SOMEWHAT similar publication to the foregoing has been 

 established at Berlin in the Notizhlatt des Kdnifjl. Botanischen Gartens 

 und Museums zu Berlin, of which the first number appeared in 

 January. It is mainly devoted to notes upon, and descriptions of, 

 new plants — mostly African — by various Berlin botanists, including 

 two new genera — Traunia K. Schumann [Asclepiadece), from Kili- 

 mandscharo, and Callopsis Engler [Aracea, Pothoidece), from 

 Usambara. 



A NEW section of the British Association has been formed for 

 Botany alone. At present the sections run from A to H, so that 

 Botany will be section I. The Director of Kew Gardens has 

 been fittingly selected as first President of the section. 



Very ingenious is the system of diagrams adopted by Messrs. 

 J. 0. Bomansson and V. F. Brotherus [Herbarium Mtisci Fennici: 

 Editio secunda : ii. Musci. Helsingforsi.^, 1894) to show at a 

 glance the distribution throughout the twenty-eight botanical 

 provinces of Finland of the native species, varieties, &c., of 

 Mosses and Hepatics. The speci- 

 men diagram here given represents 

 the distribution oi iJicranum Starkei 

 Web. & Mohr., and will be seen to 

 be composed of the ordinary type 

 material of the printing-house. The 

 outline is roughly that of Finland, 

 and the provinces indicated are 

 Lapponia inarensis, tulomensis, 

 murmanica, kemensis, and pono- 

 jensis. The introduction is printed 

 in Swedish and French in parallel p^ Starkei W. M. 



columns. In the enumeration are 



cited 171 species of Hepatics and 524 species of Mosses, besides 

 some 190 subspecies, varieties, and forms. The pamphlet contains 

 nearly ninety pages, and a large map showing the delimitation of 

 the botanical provinces. The admirable method of the distribution 

 diagrams might with advantage be adopted in the case of our own 

 museum catalogues, — A. G. 



