328 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 



" naturalized under Scots pines for two ov three miles along the 

 boundary of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire." 



BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, dc. 



The "Plant Protection Section" of the Selborne Society, of 

 which Dr. Eendle is President and Mr. A. E. Horwood Recorder, 

 has issued two appeals — one to " Nature study teachers " and one 

 to the general public. The former are asked to aid in " an appeal 

 to children (and through them to their parents) " to respect certain 

 Rules which seem to us drawn up for the teachers themselves 

 rather than for their pupils: the latter are urged "to abstain from 

 needlessly uprooting or damaging wild plants; to discourage this 

 spirit of selfishness in others ; and to inform the County Council 

 authorities and the Selborne Society of the wholesale uprooting 

 of plants for commercial purposes, due to the mercenary spirit of 

 dealers who employ hawkers to strip the countryside of its 

 treasures." "It is hoped that, before long, local orders making 

 it illegal to hawk wild flowers in the streets, or to collect them in 

 quantities, will be enforced by all County Councils. In the 

 meantime the Selborne Society asks the public to support its 

 efforts by discouraging all actions which tend to impoverish the 

 flora and fauna of the country." 



The thirtieth volume of the Journal of the College of Science 

 of the Imperial University of Tokyo contains Materials for a 

 Flora of Formosa by Mr. B. Hayata, supplementary to the Enu- 

 meratio Plantarum Formosanarum (1906) and the Flora Montana 

 Formosa (1908) published in the same Journal. The fact that in 

 so short a period additional material has accrued sufficient to 

 occupy a volume of nearly eight hundred pages is evidence that 

 the investigation of the botany of the island is being prosecuted 

 with remarkable energy by the Government of Formosa. A large 

 number of recent collections from the mountainous regions, con- 

 taining a considerable number of novelties, form the basis of the 

 present volume, to which the author prefixes an interesting 

 introduction dealing with certain critical species described in his 

 former volumes. The total number of the plants of the island is 

 2660 species belonging to 836 genera and 156 families. The 

 present volume was prepared by the author at the Kew Her- 

 barium, with some assistance from the staff. 



The first volume of Dr. Trow's Flora of Glamorgan has been 

 " completed " (but there is no index !) by the issue of the fifth 

 section, which contains the Monocotyledons and vascular crypto- 

 gams. Each plant, we note, has a " Welsh name " which in 

 many if not in most cases is obviously manufactured — e. g. Carex 

 rostrata, " Hesgen chwysigenaidd ylfinfain " ; G. vesicaria, " Hes- 

 gen chwysigenaidd berdywysennog." "It is proposed to issue a 

 second volume, in which the geographical distribution, oecology, 

 and ' critical ' species and varieties will receive fuller treatment 

 than was possible in vol. i," 



