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the Flora Capcnsis Sonder recognized nine species of Dinnflnis. 

 Of these, D. holopetahis proves inseparable from D. incur vusTYmwh. 

 and D, pectinatus E. Mey. inseparable from I), prostratus Jacq., 

 thus leaving seven valid species in the Flora Capensis. To these 

 must be added four species : — D. micropetalus Ser. and D. Burchellil 

 Ser. (1824) sunk by Sonder respectively under D. scaler Thunb. and 

 D. incurvus Thunb., Z>. nwoiensis Williams (1889), and D. numa- 

 ensis Schinz (1897)." 



The Bulletin de la Societe de Geneve (xii. nos. 6-9 ; 1920) 

 contains a continuation of ]l. Chodat's botanical results obtained on 

 the Swiss expedition to Paraguay; this eleventh section deals with 

 Boraginacece : Madame M. Earbey-Gampert gives an " Esquisse de 

 la flore des Picos de Europa " in wliich several new species and 

 varieties are described : Mdlle. V. Grouitch has " Contribution a 

 Tetude de la flore bacterienne du Lac de Geneve " : H. Lindenbein 

 describes " Les Protophycees {GloROcapsomorplia prisca Zalessky) une 

 flore marine du Silurien inferieur de la Baltique " in which he disputes 

 Zalessky's conclusions that Gloeocaptsomorpha is a member of the 

 Cyanophyceai but regards it as representing a new group, Proto- 

 phycece, which shows analogies both with Cijanophyceoi and Bhodo- 

 phycece-. K. Chodat writes on " Algues de la region du Grand 

 St.-Bernard" in which four new genera and several new species are 

 diagnosed: Mme. K. J. Paley on " Le periplasmodium dans les 

 antheres de VArum maculatum L." : L. Rehfous " Sur la periodicite 

 des bourgeons non proteges " and A. Lendner adds a paper "A propos 

 de Fheterothallisme de Copiriniis,'''' a subject on which there seems to 

 be at present no lack of workers. 



The papers in voL xii, (1921) of the same periodical are '* Etude 

 sur les reactions chimiques pendant le gonflement de I'amidon dans 

 I'eau chaude " by W. Lepeschkin, a series of eight notes by K. Chodat 

 forming " Materiaux pour Thistoire des Algues de la Suisse"; '* Sur 

 la flore vasculaire des environs de Modane, de Bardonneche et de 

 Suze (massif du Cenis) " by G. Beauvard ; " Contribution Phyto- 

 geographique sur le versant meridional des Alpes Pennines " by H. 

 Guyot ; " Le probleme diu. Leucohryum candidum''' by I. Theriot; 

 *' Kecherches sur les organes du bord des jeunes f euilles " by W. 

 Lepeschkin ; " Phanerogamarum Novitates " by G. Beauvard, who 

 also contributes a " Notice sur I'Herbier du Docteur Louis Bouvier." 



The Times of June 15 contains a long notice, with portrait, of the 

 late Major Hesketh Yernox Hesketh Prtchard, D.S.O., who was 

 born in India in November 1876, and died at Gorhambury, St. Albans, 

 on June 14. A notable traveller, a big-game hunter, an excellent 

 cricketer, a keen naturalist, and author, in collaboration with his 

 mother, of some readable romantic novels, his most important work 

 was done as a teacher of marksmansliip in the war, an account of 

 which he gave in his book Sniping in France (1920). His claim to 

 record in these pages rests upon his collections in Patagonia, presented 

 to the National Herbai-ium, a list of which is appended to his Titrcugh 



