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aud Pandaned). Tlie genus Zy(j(uithera N. E. Br. is established on 

 Englei's figure and description of Fseudohydrosme BiUtneri. 



A NEW part (vol. iii. part 2) of Mr. J. M. Wood's Natal Plants 

 contains figures and descriptions of twenty-five South African spe- 

 cies, among which are some well-known and other more interesting 

 ■plants — e.g. Strycknos Henninysii Gilg., Olea Woodiana Knobl., 

 Gladlulus inandensis Baker. 



In the new part (cxxv. ; issued May 15) of the Flora BrasiUensis, 

 Prof. Cogniaux continues his enumeration of the Orchidacece. We 

 note under the species of (Jattleya an extensive enumeration of the 

 apparently interminable florists' varieties : the synonymy of C 

 labiata alone occupies about twenty closely printed columns ! 



Biltmore Botatiical Studies is the most recent addition to the 

 list of American periodicals. The first number is dated April 8, 

 1901; it will be " issued at irregular intervals " — a phrase which 

 might be added to the title of certain periodicals nearer home — and 

 is described as "a Journal of Botany embracing papers by the 

 Director and Associates of the Biltmore Herbarium." The papers 

 in the presenc issue are careful pieces of work ; they comprise a 

 paper on CratcEyiis by the Director, Mr. C. D. Beadle, in which 

 twenty-one new species are described ; the large crop of North 

 American novelties in this genus at present leads us to express a 

 hope that the old types are sufficiently understood. With Mr. F. E. 

 Boyutou Mr. Beadle gives a revision of Marshallia, illustrated by 

 eleven plates, and with Mr. C. L. Boynton discusses certain species 

 of Budbeckia. A paper on " new or little-known species of Trillium'' 

 is contributed by Mr. T. G. Harbison. Messrs. Wesley & Son are 

 the London agents for the periodical ; the price of the present 

 number is fifty cents. 



The " Minutes of Evidence taken before the Departmental 

 Committee on Botanical Work and Collections at the British 

 Museum and at Kew wdth Appendices and Index to accompany 

 the Report presented to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's 

 Treasury dated 11th March 1901 " have been printed, but have 

 not yet, we believe, been published. 



The new part (dated 21 June; of Da>> Fjianzenreich is devoted 

 to a Monograph of the Munimiaceoi by Miss Janet Perkins and Dr. 

 Gilg. In Die Xatilrliche Pjiajizenfaiiiilieu the Mosses are continued; 

 the latest iustahnent contains the Andrseales and Bryales, by 

 Dr. Brotherus and W, Ruhland; and the Dicranacece, for which Dr. 

 Brotherus alone is responsible. 



The accuracy in general matters for which the Daily Mail has 

 long been conspicuous, extends to its botanical information. We 

 reproduce the most recent item in the hope that the publicity now 

 given to the methods of the " professional botanist" will cause him 

 to abstain from this nefarious means of adding to his income : — 



" Four of the daintiest of English wild plants are rapidly dis- 

 appearing from this country, and one, at any rate, can rarely be 

 seen outside Kew Gardens. This is the Cypripedium calceolus, 



