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disappeared." The investigation, which is very thorough, contains 

 full descriptions of many of the species, and involves the necessary 

 creation of several new combinations ; it is illustrated by figures in the 

 text ; the typographical arrangement is new and somewhat startling. 

 The number also contains figures and descriptions of three species of 

 a new genus of Apocynacece — Daturicarpa — -established by Dr. Stapf 

 on plants collected in Belgian Congo. Mr. James Hendrick writes 

 on "The Composition of the Rhizomes of Bracken and its Variations." 



In the serial publication, Herbarium, issued by T. O. Weigel in 

 Leipzig, which is mainly devoted to the sale of exsiccata, there is now 

 being published a " Conspectus Cyperacearum in America meridionali 

 nascentium enumerate a H. Pfeiffer, Bremen." The work is 

 evidently done with much care, and we regret that it should not be 

 published in some more definitely botanical publication ; as it is, it is 

 in danger of being overlooked, on which account we call attention to 

 it. The portion now being printed, in which new species are described 

 and new combinations made, deals with Heleocharis. The numbers 

 bear no date beyond that of 1921, and accurate citation is thus 

 impossible. 



The Bulletin of the Torrey Club for May contains an interesting 

 paper by W. L. McAfee " On Viburnum and the assemblage Capri- 

 foliaceae" After careful examination he regards as insufficient the 

 characters which have been relied upon as separating Caprifoliacece 

 from Bubiacece — a view in support of which he cites Baillon, 

 K. Schumann, and Fritsch. " The Caprifoliacece cannot pass a 

 test which should leave any satisfactory plant family intact, and with 

 all due respect to those most erudite botanists, Bentham and Hooker, 

 it would appear that their statement that the Caprifoliaceoe are a 

 very natural order was made without sufficient consideration." 



In the Gardeners' Chronicle for July 2 Mr. W. R. Dymes 

 describes and figures Iris acutikor, an interesting and attractive 

 hybrid produced by fertilizing the flowers of I. acutiloba with the 

 pollen of /. Korolkowi. 



In Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (xii. 

 no. lx. : it would be better to employ Arabic numerals in the latter 

 case), Dr. Malcolm Wilson describes and figures JEcidium sino- 

 rhododendri and Labridium Bhododendri, two new fungi from 

 Tibet. The number also contains an interesting account of the 

 Royal Botanic Garden, with a list of the Regius Keepers since its 

 foundation, which dates from 1699, and of the principal gardeners 

 since 1756. 



Mr. Oliver A. Farwell's latest effort in resuscitation is that of 

 Mondo, which is cited by Adanson (ii. 496) from Kaempfer. It 

 " antedates Ophiopogon by 44 years, and since the latter is not a 

 ' nomen conservanda ' [sic] it must be displaced by the earlier name." 

 The matter is of some interest, as Hondo has hitherto been regarded 

 as a synonym of Cares. Thirteen new combinations of the literary 

 kind follow — there is no evidence that any of the species have been 

 examined. The paper appeared in the American Midland Naturalist, 

 but the extract sent us gives no date. 



