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The only defect in its production is the failure to use the page- 

 headings for giving information as to what lies below them : we have 

 often drawn attention to this too frequent omission, and shall con- 

 tinue to do so in the hope that this common defect may be avoided. 

 It has doubtless occurred to the Royal Horticultural Society that they 

 would do well to issue the paper as a separate volume, apart from the 

 other matter contained in the Journal : if it has not done so, we 

 venture to commend the suggestion to its notice. 



BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, etc. 



The Kew Bulletin (1921, n. 3) contains a paper on "The 

 Genera of Fumariaceae and their Distribution," by Mr. Hutchinson, 

 with key to the genera and list of species (excluding Fumaria) the 

 distribution of which is also shown ; the genus Dactylicapnos is 

 revised and there are several new combinations. Mr. L. A. Boodle 

 writes on " Ravison " — " a commercial term applied to oil-seed in 

 England, [which] appears to be subject to considerable elasticity of 

 employment"; '"Decades Kewenses " (dec. ii.) contains descriptions 

 of new species of Herberts, Wcrcklea, Cotoneaster, tipircea, Bucrosia, 

 Emilia, Ardisia, Bassia, Teucrium, and Dracocephalum ; and 

 there are obituaries of J. R. Drummond and R. A. Rolfe. 



The National Collection of Type Cultures, formed last year by 

 the Medical Research Council and stationed at the Lister Institute, 

 has been extended to include fungi as well as bacteria. The British 

 Myeological Society has appointed a fully representative standing 

 committee to consider the ways in which the collection can be made 

 most valuable and to advise and assist in all questions appertaining 

 to fungi. It is proposed to collect and maintain cultures of fungi of 

 importance in phytopathology, medicine, veterinary science, tech- 

 nology, and soil biolog} r , types useful for teaching purposes and any 

 rare or interesting species. The co-operation of all mycologists is 

 earnestly invited, and in return every effort will be made to supply 

 the needs of applicants for cultures. Cultures will be supplied on 

 demand, so far as possible, to workers at home and abroad, and a 

 small charge will be made to defray the cost of media and postage. 

 Annual lists of the fungi in the collection will be published in the 

 Transactions of the British Myeological Society. A set of type- 

 slides of fungi will be kept in the Botanical Departnu nt of the 

 British Museum (Natui'al History), in addition to a working set 

 at the Lister Institute. All communications should be addressed to 

 the Curator, Lister Institute, Chelsea Gardens, London, S.W. 1. 



At a recent flower-show at Hayward's Heath, prizes were given 

 for best-named collections of wild flowers. There were only two 

 competitors, and, on the principle laid down in Alice in Wonder- 

 land, both had prizes. How far the second deserved the honour, 

 may be gathered from a letter in the local paper in which it is 

 pointed out that of the 21 specimens exhibited in the second prize 

 collection, 10 were incorrectly named, the errors including "Meliot" 

 for Centaurea nigra, Habenaria bifolia for Stachys sylvatica, 

 "Dandvlion " for Sonchas arvensis, and the like. 



