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which is being published by Messrs. Borntraeger of Berlin. The 

 first includes a glossary and the earlier portion of what is evidently 

 a very full bibliography, arranged under authors' names, of papers 

 which have appeared in periodicals and transactions. The second 

 volume contains the teratological portion, beginning with jRanitn- 

 culacecB : the first part (160 pages) extends to Caryophyllaceoe. In 

 tj r pe and general get-up, this new edition is in advance of that 

 published in 1890-91. 



Me. C. Gr. Lloyd has been intimately associated with mycology 

 for so many years that we are surprised to find in the latest number 

 (type-written) of his My col 'oglca I Notes (no. 64: Cincinnati, Sept. 

 1920) a notice of the late W. Gr. Smith, which shows a curious 

 ignorance of the quality and extent of the work of that eminent 

 mycologist. Mr. Lloyd speaks of " the books [Smith] wrote, or 

 rather compiled " (!) and adds: "It is about as difficult for a man 

 living in London to acquire an actual knowledge of fungi as for an 

 Arab living in the desert of Sahara to write a book on the culture of 

 ginseng." It is not necessary to refer to the full account of Smith 

 (at least twenty years of whose life was spent at Dunstable) published 

 in this Journal for 1918 (pp. 243-47) in order to obtain some idea 

 of his work : notices of this appeared in so many quarters that it 

 would seem almost impossible that Mr. Lloyd should have overlooked 

 all of them. 



The first instalment of the botanical exploration of French 

 Tropical Africa, undertaken by M. A. Chevalier and others from 

 1898 to 1912 was published at the end of last year (ILvploration 

 Botanique de V Afriq_ue Occidentals Franraise ; Leehevallier, 

 Paris, price 63 francs). The volume contains an enumeration of the 

 plants collected, with a botanical map ; many novelties are indicated 

 but not described, the descriptions being deferred until later volumes. 

 The only index is one of the orders and the page-headings supply no 

 information, hence the volume, of more than 800 pages, is difficult of 

 consultation : it is a constant source of surprise to us that details of 

 such importance should be so frequently neglected by authors. 



In Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (no. Ixi ; 

 dated Sept. 1920) Professor Bayley Balfour continues to describe 

 new species of Rhododendron, mostly from China, whence the supply 

 of novelties seems inexhaustible ; seventy species are here named and 

 described. Of Primula, which in the way of novelties runs Rhodo- 

 dendron close, Prof. Balfour describes from the same regions fiftv- 

 five novelties, with three of the allied genus Omphalogramma. 



The Verhandlungen of the zoologisch-botanische Gesellschaft of 

 Vienna are so well known and so highly esteemed by British 

 botanists as well as zoologists, that the following appeal from one of 

 the best-known Austrian botanists should meet with a favourable 

 response. " Are there in England no well-to-do botanists as well as 

 zoologists who would become life-members of our zool.-bot. Gesell- 

 schaft by a single payment of not less than £15 ? We are menaced 

 with a catastrophe, for every sheet of print now costs us over 

 6000 Kronen ; we are therefore compelled to invite the co-operation 

 of foreign members. Each £15 would secure the publication of one 



