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" The Amateur in relation to British Mycology," opened hy Dr. E. J. 

 Butler, and papers by Professor A. H. R. Buller and Mr. J. Rams- 

 bottoni on " The Chemotaxis of Slugs in relation to Fungi " and 

 "The Origin of Saprophytism in Flowering Plants " respectively. The 

 specimens collected during the meeting were exhibited in the Victoria 

 Institute, which was placed at the disposal of the Society by the 

 Worcester municipal authorities. The programme for 1922 is 

 arranged on similar lines to that of this year, and includes meetings 

 in London for the reading of papers and the exhibition of specimens, 

 and forays for students. The President for 1922 is Mr. F. F. 

 Brooks, of Cambridge. 



The recently issued Report of the Botanical Society and Exchange 

 Club of the British Isles contains in a supplement a paper on " The 

 English Capsella Bitrsa-pastoris L." by Dr. Almquist, who has 

 already " published descriptions of 200 constant forms " of the 

 species, and here describes several more. The paper is illustrated, 

 and has an introduction by Dr. Druee. The Report, among other 

 interesting matters, contains a paper on " British Forms of Centaurea 

 Jacea L." by Mr. C. E. Britton. 



The Gardeners' Chronicle for Oct. 15 contains an article by 

 Dr. Henry on the Dublin Arboricultural Society (1831) and an 

 account by Mr. H. J. Elwes of the collection of Cacti formed by the 

 late Charles Darrah and presented on his death to the Corporation of 

 Manchester, which built for its accommodation a range of houses in 

 Victoria Park : a catalogue of the 1350 species comprised in the 

 original bequest has been prepared by the curator, Mr. Cobbold. 



The Journal of Indian Botany for August contains a continua- 

 tion of the paper by T. S. Sabnis on "The Physiological Anatomy of 

 the Plants of the Indian Desert " ; Mr. H. N. Dixon writes on a 

 collection of Mosses from the Kanara District, with descriptions of 

 new species : the editor, Mr. P. F. Fyson, continues his monograph 

 of the Indian species of Eriocaulon, illustrated by numerous text- 

 figures and plates. 



The contents of The Journal of Ecology for September are 

 mainly botanical. They include papers on " The Ecology of TJrtica 

 dioica " by Carsten Olsen (with plate) ; " The Durmast Oak Woods of 

 the Silurian and Malvernian Strata near Malvern," byE. J. Salisbury 

 and A. Gr. Tansley (with plate) ; " The Effect of Heat on the Trans- 

 piration and Growth of Certain Plants," by Kathleen M. Thatcher ; 

 "The Ecology of Calluna vulgaris, byM. C. Bayer (with plate) ; 

 "Some Observations on Plants in the Libyan Desert," by H Hamshaw 

 Thomas (with one plate) ; "Species and Area," by Olof Arrhenius. 



Mr. R. W. Butcher informs us that on Sept. 1 he found Tillcea 

 aquatica L. on drying mud by a pool at Adel, near Leeds, where it 

 is apparently native. We hope to give further particulars of this 

 interesting find in our next issue. 



The Naturalist for October contains the first part of a paper by 

 Dr. Salisbury on " The Vegetation of Drying Mud and Retarded Ger- 

 mination as observed in Hertfordshire " and the continuation of 

 Mr. J. A. Wheldon's " Key to the Harpidioid Hypna." The Report 

 of the August Meeting at York of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union 

 includes notes on the ecology and botany of the district visited. 



