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Fortunately the only change Involved in the ScrophuhiriacecB^ is the 

 supersession o£ an authority — '' Ilysanthes refracta liaf. (Ell.)" 

 but the ''synonymy" of the order is largely (and we think needlessly) 

 increased. Mr. Fennell's attention may be called to the paper by 

 Kahnesque published in Loudon's Gardener's Magazine, vol. vni. 

 1832, which had been overlooked until its republication in thiS 

 Journal (xxxviii. 224-229; 1900). 



La Nature for July 1 contains a very interesting article by Abbe 

 L. Parcot on " Bernard de Jussieu et le Jardin Botanique^du Petit 

 Trianon " ; the garden was established by Louis XV in 1759 as an 

 addition to the " potager " which he had founded eight years before, 

 and was placed under the charge of M. de Jussieu, who was a corres- 

 pondent of Sloane. The garden was destroyed at the death ot 

 Louis XV, but some of the trees planted by Jussieu still remain at 

 the Trianon. 



The Annals of the Bolus Herharium (iii. pt. 3 ; Oct. 30) con- 

 tains a continuation of " Novitates Africanse," which is mamly 

 devoted to descriptions of Mesembryanthemums by Mr. Bolus; new 

 species of Aristea, Watsonia, Gladiolus, Bestio, Dovea, and Ulegta 

 are also given : a greater variety of type would render the descrip- 

 tions more easily consultable. The number also contains a paper -' 

 "The Pollination of Satyrium hicallosum,'' by S. Garside, with 

 plate. 



It has been decided to commemorate the memory of the late 

 Canon Vaughan (see p. 343) by a memorial tablet to be placed in 

 Winchester Cathedral, and, if funds permit, to provide prizes to 

 encouraa-e the study of natural history and botany, such prizes to be 

 offered to the school children of Winchester, Droxford, Langrish, 

 Porchester, and Alton— towns in which Canon Vaughan spent a large 

 part of his life. Subscriptions may be sent to E. W. Toby, Ksq., 105 

 High Street, Winchester. 



The Report for 1921 of the Botanical Society and Exchange 

 Club of the British Isles contains papers on " British Centaureas of 

 the Nigra group," by C. E. Britton ; " Vivipary in Festiica ovina,'' 

 bv T J. Jenkin ; " Seeds of the British Dactylorchids," by T. A. 

 Dyraes; "British Batrachia," by W. H. Pearsall ; and a "Flora 

 Zetlandica," by Dr. Bruce— with plant-notes and obituaries; the 

 notice of Dr. Harley is almost textually taken from this Journal 

 (p. 94), and its source should, we think, have been acknowledged. 



Contributions from the Gray Herharium (no. Ixv., issued Sept. 13) 

 contains the description and figure of a new genus, Dyscritothamnus, 

 from Mexico, placed in Uujmtoriew by Mr. B. L. Pobmson, who also 

 continues his " preliminary records " of that tribe ; Mr. J. F. Mac- 

 bride revises the Rocky Mountains Astragali of the subgenus Homalo- 

 bus, and contributes notes on the Fsoralece and on various N. American 

 Spermatophytes, both involving many changes in nomenclature; 

 Mr. C. A. Weatherby writes on the gronp of Polypodium lanceolalum 

 in N. America, describing four new species. 



