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of a paper is attributed. We can only say that onr account was taken 

 from the official circular sent out to Fellows by the Linnean Society, 

 which is thus entirely responsible for the misstatement. 



Mr. E. D. Marquand, who has for the last twelve years been 

 collecting material for a Flora of Guernsey and the lesser Channel 

 Islands — Alderney, Sark, Herm, Jethou, Lihou, Crevichon, and 

 Burhou — announces that his work will be published this year by 

 Messrs. Dulau & Co. at the subscription price of 8s. It will include 

 the cryptogams, and somewhat unusual prominence will be given 

 to plant-names and plant-lore. Each island is treated as a separate 

 and independent botanical area, possessing its own peculiar features, 

 and its own distmctive flora, for the islands differ much more widely 

 than is commonly supposed, both from each other and from the 

 adjacent portion of the French mainland. 



The third volume (for 1900) of the Meddlanden fran Stockholms 

 Hogskolas Botaniska Institut contains an important paper on the 

 Spitzbergen flora by Messrs. G. Andersson and H. Hesselman. It 

 is illustrated by plates and figures, some of which — e. g. those 

 referring to forms of CocJdearla — have a special interest for British 

 botanists. There are valuable additional notes on Cerastiwn, Ra- 

 7iimculus, and Salix ; Dr. Lagerheim has several papers dealing 

 with fungi, etc. ; and there are other contributions from Messrs. 

 Knut Bohlin, 0. Borge, J. L. Lindroth, and 0. Kosenberg. 



Captain H. H. P. Deasy's In Tibet and Chinese Turkestan, ''being 

 the record of three years' exploration," has just been published by 

 Mr. Fisher Unv/in. The author acknowledges the help of Mr. E. G. 

 Baker in preparing the botanical appendix ; the plants collected by 

 Captain Deasy have been placed iu the National Herbarium, and 

 named by Mr. Baker, Mr. Spencer Moore, and Dr. Kendle. The 

 new species were described in this Journal for 1900, pp. 428, 495 ; 

 to these may be added the description of a new variety [Deasi/i 

 Baker f.) of the polymorphic Futentilla sericca, of which the following 

 description is given in Captain Deasy's book (p. 401): — " Planta 

 caBspitosa ; caules breves graciles erecti vel adsceudentes ; folia radi- 

 calia pinnata, foliolis approximatis parvis summis majoribus reliquiis 

 decrescentibus oblongis vel ovato-oblongis lobatis vel grosse serratis, 

 folia caulinia digitatim 3-5 foliolata. A dwarf plant, with radical 

 leaves 2-3 cm. long ; leaflets small, subsessile, green above, white 

 tomentose below ; terminal leaflet 5-6 mm. long ; peduncles 1- 

 flowered ; petals 5, yellow, + 5 mm. long. Nearly allied to P. sericea 

 L. var. 7 dasijphylla Lehmann, Rev. Potentill. p. 34 (= P. dasyphylla 

 Bunge)." 



The part of the Annua rio del R. Istitiito Botanico di Roma (anno 

 ix, fasc. 2°), just to hand, contains a paper by Prof. Pirotto and 

 Dr. Longo on the structure of Cynomorium (with two plates); papers 

 by Dr. Piccone on Red Sea algae ; and notes on the Calabrian 

 Flora by Dr. Longo. 



In response to suggestions, the useful Key to British Hepatica 

 published in the May number of this Journal has been reprinted 

 in pamphlet form, price Is., and may be obtained from West, 

 Newman & Co., 54 Hatton Garden, E.G. 



