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and even inappropriate — anything less suggestive of " Spring 

 Beauty" than Glaytonia perfoliata it would be difficult to con- 

 ceive, however appropriate the name may be to the species in the 

 same genus with which it is usually associated. 



It remains to be said that the book is beautifully printed and 

 handsomely bound in buckram ; the colour-printing is on the 

 whole excellent. 



BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, dc. 



At the meeting of the Linnean Society on April 2, Mr. Clement 

 Keid showed a lantern-slide of photographs from seeds of a new 

 species of Corcvia [C. intermedia) from the Pliocene Cromer Forest 

 Bed. The same had also been found in a similar deposit in the 

 Netherlands, at Tegelen. The plant forms the subject of a paper 

 by Mr. Eeid in our present issue. Mr. R. Allen Eolfe exhibited a 

 series of coloured drawings of five hybrid Ophryses, raised by 

 M. Fernand Denis, Balaruc-les-Bains, France, from Ophrys ten- 

 thredinifera Willd. crossed with the pollen of 0. aranifera Huds. ; 

 together with the two parents. This was believed to be the first 

 hybrid Ophrys raised artificially, and it proved the origin of a 

 natural hybrid that has been recorded from three localities in 

 Italy, and is known under the names of 0. Grampinii Cortesi and 

 0. etrusca Asch. & Grabn. The hybrids varied somewhat between 

 themselves, but all showed an unmistakable combination of the 

 characters of the two parents, particularly in the colour and 

 markings of the lip, and in the peculiar combination of rose and 

 green in the sepals and petals. M. Denis has a batch of some 

 forty seedlings in flower or bud. At least eighteen natural hybrid 

 Ophryses have been recorded, and Mr. Eolfe believed there were 

 others. 



"After several years of preparation and discussion the Federal 

 Government has just decided to create a large reserve, on the lines 

 of the American Yellowstone Park, in the Lower Engadine for the 

 protection and preservation of Swiss fauna and flora, especially 

 the former. A subsidy of £1200 a year has been granted to the 

 communes interested for a period of ninety-nine years, but the 

 contract must be renewed every twenty-five years for the upkeep 

 of the park, supervision, &c. The ' park ' is ready-made by 

 Nature, for it is situated in one of the most lonely and most un- 

 touched corners of Switzerland, containing mountains, forests, 

 streams, and pastures which have been rarely visited except by 

 smugglers who ' trade ' with Italy in contraband goods. The 

 little village of Zernetz will be the headquarters of the park, 

 through which there are only a few bridle paths, although it is 

 not very far from the fashionable resort of St. Moritz. The 

 reserve will be stocked by the authorities and at the expense of 

 private societies. Owing to the lack of legislation the fauna of 

 the Alps during the last fifty years has been almost exterminated, 

 and the new measure will be only just in time to save several 

 species." — Standard, April 2. 



