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species, the leaves are broader and blunter and the leaf-margins 

 are characteristically crisped or crested," as shown In the plate which 

 accompanies the paper. The plant has been cultivated for many 

 years ; the original was a wild plant found in Devonshire at least fifty 

 years ago. Self-sown seedlings are of the normal type, showing no 

 traces of the crested character. The number also contains " A Further 

 Note on the Genetics of Fragaria,'''' by C. W. llichardson, and " The 

 History of Primula malacoides under Cultivation," by Arthur W. 

 Hill, with two plates. 



The Kew Bulletin issued in June contains a monograph of the 

 British species, eleven in number, of Melanconitim, h\ Mr. W. B. 

 Grrove, and an account of the species of Hippia, by Mr. Hutchinson, 

 which includes six species, one of which — H. trilohcda — is new. 

 Mr. W. Dallimore writes on " Wood-Preservation " and there is a 

 short notice of Maurice de Vilmorin, of the firm of Vilmorin-Adi'iens, 

 who died at Les Barres (Loiret) on April 21, at the age of 69. 



Me. F. N. Williams has prepared a new catalogue of British 

 Plants, which will be published after the end of the War. It will 

 form a systematic index to his Prodromus Florce BritamiiccB, of 

 which the manuscript approaches completion. The sequence of 

 genera will closely follow the arrangement in Engler and Prantl's 

 I)ie Natilrlichen Pflnnzenfamilien, as exemplified in Mr. L. Gar- 

 land's Flora of Jersey (1903) and in certain North American Floras, 

 • — with a few modifications suggested by Rouy and Foucaud's Fl. de 

 France (1S93-1913), Camel's Epitome Florce Furopee, and Dahl's 

 new edition of Blytt's Norges Flora. As in the British Museum 

 List, neither varieties nor census-numbers will be included ; but 

 full references will be given for the names of orders, families, tribes, 

 genera, and species — checked and verified. The starting-point for 

 names of all grades will be Tournefort's Institittioues Eei ILerharice 

 (1700), where such names have been taken up by Linnaeus or his 

 immediate followers, mainly as regards genera. 



The correspondence in Tlie New Pliytologist on " The Recon- 

 struction of Elementary Botanical Teaching " to which we have 

 already referred (p. 160) is continued in the issues for May and June. 

 It is remarkable for a liveliness and freedom of expression which does 

 not often occur in such discussions : in the present instalment 

 Prof. Bower writes : " The signatories [of the " encyclical " Avhich 

 originated the correspondence] appear to advocate Botanical Bolshev- 

 ism. They propose that in order to secure improvement, ' compara- 

 tive morphology should be reduced to a subordinate position.' I 

 confess such a dictum from scientific men takes my breath away. 

 I hope it is only a slip of the pen, and that they really mean ' co- 

 ordinate ' and not ' subordinate.' But five cultivated minds have 

 committed themselves to the latter word. In order to secure their 

 own Utopia they propose to ' subordinate ' something which they 

 admit is good in itself. That is the spirit that has ruined Russia, and 

 endangered the future of civilisation. Are the signatories prepared 

 to follow a like course ? " 



