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tlie Heart of Patagonia (1902), This was preliminary to a more 

 complete enumeration by Dr. Kendle, wherein will be found descrip- 

 tions of several interesting new species, many of them bearing 

 the collector's name — e. g., Anarthrophijllum Frichard/,— appeared 

 in this Journal for 1904. (pp. 321-334, 367-378). Although not a 

 botanist, Prichard was a keen observer of vegetation, and his notes 

 supply much interesting information. 



^u^ Journal of the Arnold Arboretum, vol. iil. no. 1, contains 

 new species and varieties of Cratcegus, by C. S. Sargent, and a note 

 on the Hobart Botanical Gardens, by E. H. Wilson ; the bulk of the 

 nnmber is occupied by a continuation of A. llehder's " new species, 

 varieties, and combinations." The number, which has only lately 

 reached us, bears date "July, 1921"; a reference to "January 31, 

 1922," on an inner page of the wrapper, indicates, however, that it 

 cannot have been issued before that date ; in view of the fact that it 

 contains many new species it is to be regretted that the date of actual 

 publication is not given. 



In the Bulletin de la Societe Mycologique de France (xxxvii. 

 no. 4) B. Peyronel writes on " Nouveaux cas de rapports mycorhi- 

 ziques entre Phanerogames et Basidiom^^cetes " ; the paper records ten 

 species of Basidiomycetes associated with Larix decidua, six with 

 Betiila alba, five with Populus tremula, nine with Fagns sglvatica, 

 and seven with Corylus Avellana ; but until a full account of these 

 results is given they cannot be accepted. F. Bataille's " Flore ana- 

 lytique et descriptive des Tuberoidees de TEurope et de I'Afrique du 

 Nord" is of the type associated Avith the name of this author. 



Among the " birthday honours " we note the name of Sir F. W. 

 Keeble, Sherardian Professor of Botany at Oxford, of whom an appre- 

 ciation with portrait appears in the issue for June 10 of the Gardeners' 

 Chronicle, with which journal Sir Frederick has been for many years 

 associated. The Chronicle for June 17 contains a detailed apprecia- 

 tion of Sir Frederick Moore^ to whose retirement from the Jioyal 

 Botanic Garden, Glasnevin, Dublin, we have already alluded ; a 

 tribute to Sir Frederick from Mr. W. Watson, of Kew, with portrait, 

 appeared in the same journal for May 20. 



The Times for May 31st gives an account of a projDosed attempt 

 to be made by the U.S.A. Bureau of Plant Industry to test whether 

 the Eecidiospores of Fuccinia graminis are carried to the wheat- 

 growing areas by high air-currents. Aii-men are to open " aerial 

 germ-traps " at specified heights which will collect and hermetically 

 seal a "certain amount of the upper air-stream. The black stem-rust 

 is reckoned to be responsible for the yearly destruction of 200,000 

 bushels of wheat in America. 



The well-known Zoologisch-botanische Gesellschaft of Vienna is 

 being compelled to sell parts of its herbarium in order to discharge 

 financial liabilities. It desires to find a purchaser of its collection of 

 European mosses, consisting of about 12,000 specimens of more than 



