340 THE JOURNAL OP BOTANY 



Primula " — this last illustrated by a large number of beautifully 

 produced figures, and including a complete list of the species with 

 synonymy and valuable notes on the various sections ; these are 

 followed by notes on other Asiatic and an American Primulas, 

 and by " Notes on Himalayan Primulas," by Mr. W. Craib, 

 who describes at length two new species, P. Walshii and P. 

 Smithiana, and raises to specific rank P. petiolaris var. sul- 

 phured, P. petiolaris var. Stracheyi (as P. Drummondiana), and 

 P. minutissima var. spathulifolia. 



The last number (xli. 283, Oct. 6) of the Journal of the 

 Linnean Society (Botany) contains a paper on the morphology 

 and histology of Piper Betle, by Mr. H. M. Chibber, with three 

 plates ; an account of the plants collected on the Carruthers- 

 Miller-Price Expedition through North-west Mongolia and Chinese 

 Dzungaria in 1910, by Messrs. M. P. Price and N. D. Simpson, 

 with figures and descriptions by the latter of six new species ; and 

 a paper on the structure of the wood of East Indian species of 

 Ficus, by Messrs. Percy Groom & W. Eushton, with two plates. 



The Keio Bulletin (No. 6, August) contains a list of the Fungi 

 additional to those already recorded as occurring in Kew Gardens. 

 These include the following new species, all of which are described 

 and figured by Mr. Massee : Laccaria nana, Omphalia kewense, 

 Glcesporium Crotalarice, Colletotrichum concentricum, Brachy- 

 sporium Wakefield ice, Stemmaria ceritginosa, Arthrosporium elatum. 

 From No. 7 of the same journal (September) we learn that 

 the Wallichian Herbarium has been transferred from the Linnean 

 Society to Kew. A history of the herbarium, with the com- 

 mentary upon Wallich's localities and numbers which the late 

 0. B. Clarke drew up and left in MS. at Kew, accompanies the 

 account of the transference. 



The annual autumn foray of the British Mycological Society 

 was held at Haslemere on September 22nd- 27th. About fifty 

 mycologists attended the excursions, which were to Charlton 

 Woods, Woolmer Forest, and Eodborough Common. Over four 

 hundred of the larger fungi were found, and about fifty 

 Myxomycetes. Mr. A. D. Cotton gave the presidential address, 

 on " Some Suggestions as to the Study and critical Eevision of 

 certain Genera of the Agaricaceae." Mr. F. T. Brooks gave an 

 account of his cultures of Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes. Mr. 

 A. H. E. Buller described his researches on the analysis of the 

 hymenium, and Mr. J. Eamsbottom gave some notes on the 

 history of the classification of the Discomycetes. Professor 

 Buller was elected President for the ensuing year. The spring 

 foray of 1914 is to be held at the Forest of Dean, and the autumn 

 foray at Doncaster. The Cryptogamic foray of the Essex Field 

 Club will be held on Nov. 8 at the Loughton and Theydon Bois 

 districts of Epping Forest. The leaders will be : for Mosses, 

 Messrs. H. N. Dixon, L. B. Hall, andW. E. Sherrin; for Hepatics, 

 Mr. E. M. Holmes ; for Lichens, Miss Lorrain Smith and Mr. E. 

 Paulson ; for Myxomycetes, Miss Gulielma Lister. 



