12S THE JOUJlN.\.L OF BOTANY 



'' Further Notes on Intrat'asciculur Caiiibiuni in T\Ionocotvl(-*don.s," bv 

 Mr. Arber; " Chonilrio.somes and the Piiniordia of Chloro])lasts and 

 Leueoplasts," bv D. M. Mottier ; " Mori)hology and Cytology ot" 

 Sexual Organs of Phi/fophthora erythroseptica,'" by P. A. Murphy ; 

 "The Development of Thaudotheca, a Peculiar Water- Mould," by 

 W. H. Weston ; and a note " On a Peculiarity exhibited by the Testa 

 of Wrinkled Peas," by S. Gr. Paine and L. M. S.iunders. 



The Essex Naturalist, published in Fel^ruary (xviii. parts 10, 11) 

 contains a very interesting " Short History of the Study of Mycetozoa 

 in Britain, with a List of Species collected in Ess;^x " — a Presidential 

 Address by Miss Gulielma Lister ; Mr. Joseph Ross gives a list of 

 the species found in the Chingford district of Epping Forest, and an 

 a.'count of the discovery in the Forest of Ptllldiuia pulcherriinani. 



The llev. H. J. Riddelsdell sends us a list of Gloucestershire 

 Riihi, (reprinted from the Proceedings of the Cotteswold Field-Club) 

 which " forms a first and typical instalment of the Preliminary List 

 of Gloucestershire Plants," which however is " not the ideal on which 

 the completed County Flora will be framed." It will be remembered 

 that Mr. Boulger's " Notes preliminaiy to the proposed Flora " 

 were published forty years ago, so that the progress of the work 

 hiis not been rapid : v^e hope Mr. Riddelsdell will bring it to a satis- 

 factory conclusion. 



At the meeting of the Linncan Society on Feb. 21, a paper was 

 read by Mr. W. B. Brierley entitled " Experimental Studies on the 

 Specific Value of Morphological Characters in the Fungi." 



In the Bulletin de la Sociefe de Pathologie Exotique for 1917, 

 Chalmers and Pekkola have given an account of cutaneous eruption 

 (dermatitis venenata) caused by Haplophi/lliim tuherculatum Forsk. 

 in the Sudan. The susceptible person about thirty hours after he 

 began working in the Rue was troubled with marked irritation on his 

 hands, feet, and legs. Eruptions began as small red papules which 

 increased in size until neighbouring ones coalesced and. formed large 

 red swollen areas ; then his hands and legs swelled and were red and 

 itching ; there was also headache, and pain in the epigastric region 

 and other clinical symptoms. When the patient left off work- 

 ing amongst the Ilaplopln/llum he immediately felt easier and 

 graduallv got well without any treatment. The earlier symptoms 

 were afterwards produced in the same person by rubbing his arm 

 with leaves and flowers of the plant for a few seconds. — J. R. 



In the Journal of Genetics (February) Mr. A. B. Stout continues 

 his observations on Chicory in a paper entitled " Fei'tility in Cieho- 

 rium Intyhns : Self-Compatibility and Self-Incompatibility among 

 Offspring of self -fertile lines of descent " ; Mr. W. O. Backhouse, 

 Economic Botanist to the Argentine Government, writes of " The 

 Inheritance of Glume Length in Trificum polonicuin : a Case of 

 Zygotic Inhibition." 



