300 THE JOUllISIAL OF BOTANi: 



Hymenodontopsis and CaUistoinium, and more than a dozen new 

 species including two new species of Dawsonia, a genus which is 

 more highly repi-esented in New Guinea than in any other part of 

 its rather limited distribution. A further collection by tlie lie v. J. 

 B. Clark, of the London Missionary Society, in the neighbourhood of 

 Boku, British New Guinea, is also included, and contains ten new 

 species, including a very beautiful Fterobryella, and other interest- 

 ing things. A small species, pi-obably of Ehizogonium, named pro- 

 visionally B. orhiculare, may possibly represent the ancestral form 

 of the Khizogoniacea?. 



O^ p. 183 we called attention to an advertisement which offered 

 to supply ''one square foot of sod. containing numbers of the beautiful 

 and interesting " sandhill form of Pyrola rotund if olio, and entered 

 a protest against this wholesale extermination. An equally repre- 

 hensible announcement is made by Mr. Clarence Elliott of the Six 

 Hills Nursery, Stevenage, who in his catalogue offers to supply 

 Primula scofica, and says : " A very rare ntitive, occurring only in 

 the extreme north of Scotland. I made a special expedition to collect 

 it last summer, and hold a fine stock." The matter is made Avorse by 

 the fact that Mr. Clarence Elliott has certain claims to l)e regarded as 

 a botanist. 



J^^ofes from the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens, ^o. 59 ("May,'' 

 but dated by printer "10/20") is mainly the v»'ork of Mr. William ■ 

 Wright Smith, Avho contributes diagnoses of numerous new species of 

 various orders, mostly from China, in the Edinburgh Herbarium, and 

 a paper on Asiatic Sfi/racacece : Mr. Spencer i\Ioore describes a new 

 ErJangea {E. venustula) grown in the Gardens from seed sent from 

 East Africa. 



The Kfiv Bulletin (no. 9) contains, besides Mr. Sprague"s ]^aper 

 referred to on p. 294, " Notes on Uganda Fungi," and a i)aper en 

 " Diseases of the Oil Palm in West Africa," by Miss E. M. Wake- 

 iield ; and " Contributions to the Flora of Siam," by W. B. Craib. 



The Annals of Botany (October) contains "Studies in Seed 

 Germination " {Cyclamen : see Journ. Bot. 1918, 222) by A. W. Hill; 

 "Adventitious Leaves of Cyclamen,'' hj It. A. Boodle ; "The Bole 

 of the Seed-coat," by F. Kidd and C. West; "Leaf-structure of 

 Liliacese," by Agnes Arber ; '' Clathosorf/s, a new genus of Plasmo- 

 diophoracea?," by C. Fernandsen and O. Winge ; "Plant Invasions 

 of New Zealand," by J. C. Willis ; " Anatomy of Selar/inella,'' by 

 J. C. T. Uphof ; " Spirogyra colligata, sp. n. '' by W. J. Hodgetts'; 

 "Anatomy of .Rhododendron ponticum and Ilex Aquifolium,'" by 

 M. F. Rivett ; " Besleria lutea a new example of Water-calyx," by M. 

 Drummond. 



The response to the appeal to subscribers in our last issue has 

 been so far satisfactory, and has been accompanied by so many kind 

 expressions as to the usefulness of the Journal, that, although the 

 deficit (which proves larger than was estimated) has not been met, 

 we propose to continue publication during 1921 at the necessarily 

 increased subscription of 22s. 6d. We shall be grateful to any of our 

 readers who ma}^ be able to obtain additional subscribers or may 

 be willing to become so. A list of those who have contributed 

 towards the deficit will be printed in our January issue. 



