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SHORT NOTES. 



EoMULiEA PARViFLOBA (p. 46). — Dr. Stapf calls my attention 

 to the publication of this name in Bubani's Flora Pyrcnaa, iv. 

 150 (1901). Judging from the synonymy, this is identical with 

 Salisbury's Ixia iMrviflora, and the name must therefore be cited 

 as of Bubani. It is curious to note that Bubani does not cite 

 Salisbury's publication, of which he was probably not aware ; he 

 based his name on " /. parviflora Pourr. Herbr. Matr.," to which 

 he adds " ita ego." — James Britten. 



Apera interrupta Beauv. in Lancashire. — Mr. J. A. 

 Wheldon and I found this rare grass at Freshfield, South Lan- 

 cashire, v.-c. 59, early in July. The plant occurred on sandy 

 and cindery soil for some distance along the margin of the road 

 leading from the station to the shore. The specimens were 

 numerous and well-grown. No other "alien" plants were seen 

 in the vicinity, but there can be no doubt that the plant in this 

 locality is purely a casual, as to the origin of which we can make 

 no suggestion. There is no record to our knowledge of this species 

 ever having been met with in Lancashire before, although its 

 congener Apera Spica-venti occasionally crops up about docks, 

 canals, and railways ; and as there is a possibility that it may 

 establish itself on the open sandy soil of the district, it may be 

 well to put particulars of our " find " on record. — W. G. Travis. 



Miller's ' Abridgement,' ed. 4. — As there seems to be some 

 obscurity about the " discovery " of the fourth edition of the 

 Abridgement (1754) of Miller's Gardeners Dictionary, I may 

 point out that I was the first to call attention to it as an autho- 

 rity for the citation of genera, in Journ. Bot. 1910, p. 183, and 

 again in Prodr. Fl. Brit. p. 461 (February, 1911). The many 

 binomials to be found in it are, of course, only accidental and are 

 not valid for citation ; and have even less claim to notice than 

 similar " accidentals " in Hill's British Herbal and in Gersault's 

 List, which are both of later date. As it has been suggested that 

 this work of Miller may be ignored by decision of Congressional 

 vote on the principle of the "nomina conservanda" anomaly, 

 I should protest that it can be no more suppressed than the 

 classical but badly printed Species Flantarmn of the previous 

 year. — F. N. Williams. 



REVIEWS. 



Physiological Plant Anatomy. By Dr. G. Haberlandt. Translated 

 from the fourth German edition by Montagu Drummond. 

 777 pages, with 291 figures in the text. Macmillan & Co., 

 Ltd. 1914. 25s. net. 



The relation of an organism to its environment is one of the 

 most interesting of all biological problems if, indeed, it cannot 

 be said to comprise the whole of biology. The "hand and eye " 



