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Eucommia ulmoides, " the Tu-chung of the Chinese" in "Notes on 

 Raimannia and allied Genera." Messrs. T. A. Sprague and L. A. 

 M. Riley give the characters by which Raimannia and Anoqra are 

 separated from (Enothera, with various new combinations resulting 

 therefrom. Mr. Sprague also revises the genus Capraria ; we nolo 

 that C. cuneata is attributed to Robert Brown, although, as is stated 

 in this Journal (1907, 315), his name is in no way connected with it 

 in Ait. Hort. Kew (ed. 2, iv. 17), where the species is published) 

 Mr. J. Burtt Davy writes on new and noteworthy South African 

 plants; and Mr. Boodle on Mistletoe on the lime-trees at Hampton 

 Court. No. 6 contains an illustrated account of Captain Hill's 

 "Visit to the Cameroons and Nigeria " in February and March last, 

 with a list of the plants collected by him in Northern Nigeria 

 drawn up by Mr. Hutchinson, who describes several new species. 



The Annals of Botany (July) contains continuations of Lady 

 Isabel Brown's researches on the Anatomy of JEquisetum and of 

 C. Boyle's "Studies in the Plrysiology of Parasitism " ; E. M. Cutting 

 writes on " Variations in the Flowers of Stachys sylvatica." Other 

 papers are " On certain Plastids, with special reference to the Protein 

 Bodies of Zea, Ricinus, and Conopholis,''' 1 by D. M. Mot tier " ; 

 " Cytological Study of Pollen Development in Lactuca" by R. 

 Buggies Gates and E. M. Bees ; " Cytology of Tilletia Tritici, by 

 J. F. Dastur: Mr. E. J. Chandler has a note on the "Occurrence of 

 Sequoia in the Headon Beds of Hordwell, Hants." 



Nos. 1 and 2 of Annates Mycologici for 1921 (Berlin, Fried- 

 laender) contain " Einige Bemerkungen zu den Astray at us unci 

 Cytisus benohnen den Uromyces Arten," by F. Kobel ; " Mykolo- 

 gische Notizen," containing descriptions of many new genera and 

 species, by F. Petrak ; " Polypores new to Bengal" (Fomes rufolac- 

 catus, sp. n., with plate), by S. B. Bose ; an enumeration of Sydow's 

 " Mycotheca Germanica " (nos. 1401-1800) with descriptions of 

 novelties; and a comprehensive list of " Neue Literatur." 



From the Transactions of the London Natural History Society 

 for 1920, we learn that during that year 6 species were added to the 

 botanical records of the northern portion of the district embraced by 

 the Society, and 91 (of which a list is given) to those of the southern 

 portion; the larger number is due to the fact that it represents 

 only six years of work, while the northern portion has been under 

 observation for Hfteen years. 



The following appreciative notice — headed " Plant Portraits at 

 Kew — 300 Years of Progress " — appeared in the Times for August 

 26th : — " In a small room opening out of the [Marianne North] 

 Galleiy, a collection of water-colour drawings of individual plants has 

 recently been arranged. The nucleus of this collection was a series 

 by different artists got together by the late Sir Arthur Church, who, 

 though best known as a chemist, was an enthusiastic collector of 

 works of art and himself a painter of no small skill, and passed the 

 last years of his life at Kew. This series, presented by his widow, 

 has. been wisely supplemented by specimen drawings previously be- 

 longing to the Gardens, so as to make up a consecutive representation 

 of the progress of plant portraiture from Simon Varelst (1001-1651) 



