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our only regret is that so little attention is paid to typographical 

 arrangement : the type itself is excellent, but the arrangement could 

 hardly be worse ; and the methods of citation — e. g. " Boletus lacteus 

 Lev. Lev. An. sc, n. (1848), 124 " — often leave much to be desired. 



The Flora of Wijnhledon Common (Tajdor & Francis, Is. n.) 

 is an address given by Mr. A. A. Pearson to the John Evelyn Club in 

 December last, to which is added a list of the species (including 

 vascular cryptogams and fungi) recently recorded. The address, 

 which is written in an interesting manner, takes the form of "a Avalk" 

 across the Common : " it can be at any period of the year, so you 

 must try to enlarge ^^our powers of vision^in order to embrace all the 

 seasons." The appended list, which includes about 400 flowering 

 jdants and 330 fungi, is a useful record as showing the existing dora 

 of a district so close to London. " Herb Willow " (p. 8) should 

 be Willowherb. 



Mr. Yj. a. Bowles contributes to The Journal of the Hoyal 

 ITorticultural Society (xliii. part 1, May) an interesting paper on 

 " Snowdrops," illustrated by sixteen plates. Mr. Bowles divides the 

 genus into four *' groups," of which G. nivalis, G. ijlicatus, 

 O. latifoUus, and G. Ehvesii are the types ; " the single form of 

 G. nivalis, that has spread so freely in some parts of Great Britain 

 as to be reckoned one of our wild flowers, was probably introduced by 

 the Ilomans." 



Science Progress (July, 5s. n. : Murray) continues to deserve its 

 name : judging from the survey of Botany by Dr. E. J. Salisbury, 

 the record is very complete. The review is admirably printed ; but 

 the system of page-heading — a subject to which we called attention last 

 year (.Tourn. Bot. 1917, 288) could bardly be worse. The left-hand 

 pages are rightly headed with the title of the review ; the riglit-hand, 

 up to p. 63, are uniformly headed " Eecent Advances in Science " ; 

 then follow "Articles" (to p. 85), "Popular Science" (to p. 95), 

 "Notes" (to p. 123), " Essays "—there is only one— (to p. 129)," 

 *' Essay-Reviews " (to p. 145) and "Reviews" (to p. 167): could 

 anything be less helpful or less illuminative ? 



The Annals of Botany issued in July contains an interesting 

 paper by Dr. J. C. Willis on " The Source and Distribution of the 

 New Zealand Flora " ; a study of " The Genus Caltha in the Southern 

 Hemisphere," with descriptions of three new species, bj Captain A. 

 W. Hill ; " Studies on East Indian Hepaticaj " by D. H. Campbell ; 

 a paper by Dr. Scott on " The Structure of Mesoxylon fnultirame,'^ 

 and other articles. 



Mr. Horace A. Vachell presumes too much on the knowledge 

 of botanists. In his novel The Waters of Jordan (chap, vii.) he 

 tells us that a New Forest rector named Vennable " had published a 

 monograph upon fungi, with special reference to the rare species of 

 holetus discovered by him and named — as botanists know — Edulis 

 Vennabilis." Later Mr. Vennable (chap, xv.) raised the variety to 

 the rank of a species — "I found the Boletus Ven/iabilis.'' 



