160 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 



National Botanic Gardens at Kirstenbosch, is in large qnai-to — an 

 inconvenient size — and the number of dach page appears in black 

 letters at its foot — thus, *' Page One": the ingenuity of the human 

 mind in inventing useless innovations is inexhaustible, as is also its 

 inability to make use of patent opportunities. Of this latter Science 

 Progress, which provides a valuable quarterly review of scientific 

 thought, work, and affairs, affords a conspicuous example : in no case 

 has the page-heading any relation to the paper over which it stands. 

 In the April issue Dr. Salisbury and Dr. Kidcl summarise the " Keeent 

 Advances in Science " for Botany and Plant Physiology, which are 

 treated as separate subjects. 



The Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany: vol. xliv, no. 800, 

 Mar. 18) contains two papers on Fossil Botany — '' Bennettites 

 Scottiiy sp. n., a European Petrification with Foliage," by Dr. Marie 

 Stopes (2 plates), and '* On the External Morphology of the Stems of 

 Calamites, with a Revision of the British Species of Cnlamophloios and 

 Dictyo-Oalamites^ by the late E. Newell Arber and F. W. Lawfield 

 (3 plates). Messrs. Paulson and Somerville Hastings contribute a 

 paper on '• The Relation between an Alga and a Lichen " (2 plates). 



The New Phytologist for January and February (issued March 30) 

 contains papers on " The Evolution of Plants " by Mr. Tansley, 

 based on the memoir on Tlialassiophyta by Dr. A. H. Church, which 

 was noticed in this Journal for February ; " Phylogenetic Considera- 

 tions on the Internodal Vascular Strands of l^quisetum^'' by Lady 

 Isabel Browne ; " Mutations and Evolution " by Dr. R. R. Gates ; 

 " Ccvmpylonema laJiorense,^^ n. sp.," by S. L. Ghose ; " The Occur- 

 rence of Actinomyces-like Endotrophic Mycorhiza " by Jean Dufrenoy ; 

 " Elementary Lecturing by the help of Schedules," based on those 

 prepared by Dr. A. H. Church ; and a notice of the late Professor J. 

 W. H. Trail. 



The recently published part (vol. v. sect. ii. part iii.) of the Flora 

 Capensis, issued at the somewhat odd price of lis. Sd. contains the 

 conclusion of the Miophorhiacecd^ by Mr. Hutchinson and Sir David 

 Prain ; JJlmacece by Mr. N. E. Brown ; and the beginning of the 

 MoracecB by Messrs. Brown and Hutchinson. 



On April 13th, before the Royal Horticultural Society, Mr. J. K. 

 Ramsbottom read a paper on "Further Investigations on the Eel-worm 

 Disease of Narcissus." Mr. Ramsbottom had previously demonstrated 

 that the so-called *' Fusarium " disease was due to the eel-worm 

 Tylenchus devastatrix and not to the fungus Fusarium hulhigenum. 

 After several years of experiment he has shown that the disease 

 which threatened the Narcissus industry with destruction can be 

 successfully treated on a commercial scale by soaking the bulbs in hot 

 water at a constant temperature of 110° F. for three hours : no 

 damage is done to the flowers if the treatment is carried out in July, 

 August, and September. 



For the convenience of those who may wish to have it separately, 

 a few copies of Lieut.-Col. WoUey-Dod's " Revised Arrangement of 

 British Roses " have been printed in pamphlet form and may be had 

 ■from Messrs. Taylor & Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, E.C. 4, 

 price Is. 6(/. post free. 



