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the North they call it " kemps " — with ribwort-plantain ; walnuts 

 supply walnut-shell boats and willow-branches w^histles ; you tell 

 the time by the dandelion-clock, and the future by rye-grass and 

 moon-daisy ; there are daisy-chains and whips made of rushes, and 

 so on. There are forty pictures, twenty very nicely coloured 

 and twenty plain, portraying the plants and the children amusing 

 themselves w^th them ; the former are dainty and delicate, but at 

 times a little w^eak — criticisms which also apply to the accom- 

 panying rhymes. The flowers are mostly well drawm, sufficiently 

 so at any rate to enable one to determine that the buttercup 

 labelled Bajiunculus hulhosus is not that species. 



A NEW part (vol. iii, part 1) of Mr. J. F. Duthie's Flora of the 

 Upper Gangetic Plain, has lately been issued by the Government 

 Press, Calcutta ; it includes the orders NyctaginacecB to Cerato- 

 phyllacecB. It is evidently very carefully done ; the descriptions 

 are full, and a clavis is given for the species of the larger genera. 

 Of convenient size for the pocket, the book should be invaluable 

 to the collector ; it is also remarkably cheap — Is. lOcZ. for 168 

 well-printed pages. The book can be obtained of Messrs. 

 Constable and the usual London agents. 



The recent part (viii, part 8, December, 1915) of the Tra?isac- 

 tions of the Linncan Society contains notes on the morphology of 

 certain structures concerned in reproduction in the genus Gnetum 

 (with two plates) by Mr.'H. H. W. Pearson, and a paper on Isoetes 

 japonica (with seven plates) by Mr. Cyril West and Dr. H. 

 Takeda. 



The danger of trusting to a title has been experienced by a 

 writer in the Westminster Gazette of December 16th, who refers 

 to Curtis's Flora Lonclmensis as " still the best guide to the wild 

 flowers found near London" ! 



We have received the Beport for 1914 of the Botanical 

 Exchange Club, by the Editor and Distributor, Mr. E. H. Corstor- 

 phine (issued in November last), and the Beport of the Watson 

 Botanical Exchange Club, 1914-15, edited by the Hon. Secretary, 

 Mr. George Goode, both of which we hope to notice in an early 

 number. 



Our readers will observe that, owing to the incorporation of 

 Messrs. West, Newman & Co., with Messrs. Adlard & Son, the 

 payment of subscriptions should be made to the latter firm, whose 

 temporary address is 76, Newgate Street, E.C. The difficulties 

 attending the transfer of. stock, etc., may account for the lateness 

 of the present number — a delay for which the Editor, who for so 

 many years has generally succeeded in achieving publication on 

 the first of the month, cannot accept responsibility. We trust 

 that it may be possible later to resume the regularity which has 

 distinguished the Journal for more than thirty years, but this must 

 depend on matters beyond editorial control. 



