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Edwards ; the ^^rouping of the simpler Ascoiuvcetes hy Dame O wyime- 

 Vaug'han ; and fungi from a diseased llevea trunk by Dr. A. S. 

 Home. 



The Provincial Museum of Natural History of Victoria, B.C., 

 has issued what is evidently a careful and useful FreJiminary Cafa- 

 Joijue of the Flora of Vaucottve?' and Queen Charloite lalaiuh. It 

 is l)ased on the works of the Macouns, Avho had hoped to have seen it 

 through the press ; this, however, was prevented by their deaths. 

 The bulk of the information here given has been compiled by Mr. W. 

 11. Carter, who has collected extensively on Vancouver Island, assisted 

 by Dr. C. F. Newcombe. The list, which is well printed, includes 

 the scientific and English names — real or manufactured — of each 

 species and an indication of their local distribution. 



No. 8 of the Kew Bulletin (1921) contains descriptions of new 

 African plants, by N. E. Brown, mostly collected in Africa by 

 Archdeacon llogers ; a note on the flowering of Arundinaria falcata 

 at Kew, by J. S. Gamble, who also continues his notes on the Flora 

 of Madras; a continuation of the "Decades KeWenses " ; and an 

 account of the tw^enty-three years' work of Miss Matilda Smith, 

 whose retirement took place last July and whose election to the 

 Associateship of the Linnean Society was mentioned in our last 

 issue. 



Me. N. E. Beown is continuing in the Gardeners^ Chronicle 

 his important series of papers on Mesemhryantheimtm. In the issue 

 for Nov. 26 he takes up Haworth's genus Gihhcetim, of which he 

 describes and figures a new species. 



We learn from the Gardeners'" Chronicle (Nov. 26) that the 

 negotiations between the purchasers of the copyright of the Botanical 

 Magazine and Kew, to which the Magazine had been offered, have 

 fallen through, the Department of Agriculture, to which Kew is 

 attached, having declined to accept the resjDonsibility for its con- 

 tinuance. It is gratifying, however, to know that the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society has secured the copyright, and it is hoped to resume 

 the publication of the Magazine at an early date : the Society is to 

 be congratulated on the success of its efforts to prevent the disap- 

 pearance of a work which for so many years has been invaluable 

 both to botanists and horticulturists. 



The Report on the Vascular Plants collected during the Cana- 

 dian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18, was issued at Ottawa (Oct. 14, 

 1921) as a Grovernment publication. The Report had been under- 

 taken by the late James M. Macoun, but at the time of his death in 

 January, 1920, was unfinished, and its completion was intrusted to 

 Dr. Theodore Hohn, who had already collaborated in the work. The 

 list contains 230 species, the distribution of which is full}^ given ; 

 there are thirteen excellent plates repi'esenting numerous species, the 

 plants selected being for the most part such as have not been figured 

 before or have been published in works not readily accessible. 



