NOTES FROM CURRENT LITERATURE I85 



Notes from Current Literature. 



Mr. E. S. Marshall ("Journal of Botany," April 1912) in a short 

 note records that Dr. (iliick, in examining the sheets of Utricularia 

 in his herbarium, identified specimens as U. ochroleuca R. Hartman 

 from vice-counties 88, 98, 106, 108, and 112, as well as from Dorset 

 v.c. 9. None of the Scottish specimens were true U. inter media. 



"South Kerry Plants," by E. S. Marshall ("Journal of Botany," 

 June 19 1 2). In this Mr. Marshall gives valual)le notes upon some 

 of the Irish Saxifrages, and describes a new variety of 6". hirsuta 

 as var. acutidens. 



" Doux Labiees nouvelles pour la Provence," by Alfred Reynier 

 ("Bulletin de la Societe Botanique de France," 191 1, No. 8). 

 Contains lengthy notes on Ballota /ligra Linn., var. ruderalis, and 

 Calamintha nepeta Savi,/. Gussonei. 



" Contribution a I'etude des Saxifrages du groupe des Dadyloides 

 Tausch," by M. D. Luizet (" Bulletin de la Societe Botanique de 

 France," 191 1, No. 8). 



"Nigra olika typer af. Convallaria inajalis L.," by Carl Skottsberg 

 (" Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift," Haft 4, p. 411). 



" Un Sagina nouveau presume hybride : Sagina lemovicensis" by 

 E. Simon. ? S. subulatay. procmnbens ("Bulletin de la Societe Bo- 

 tanique de France," 191 1, p. xlii). 



" Un Saule peu connu de la flore de France (Sa/ix atrociiierea 

 Brot.)," by Ph. Guinier (" Bulletin de la Societe Botanique de France," 

 191 1, p. ix). 



"The Grama Grasses: Bouieloua and Related Genera," by David 

 Grififiths ("Contributions from the United States National Herb- 

 arium," vol. xiv. part iii.). This is a paper of considerable value, 

 containing good photographs and dissections of the various species 

 described. 



" New or Noteworthy Plants from Columbia and Central 

 America," by H. Pittier. ("Contributions from the United States 

 National Herbarium," vol. xiii. part xii.). A large number of the 

 species described are trees, some of which are of considerable 

 commercial value. 



"New or Interesting Mosses from Panama," by R. S. Williams 

 (" Contributions from the United States National Herbarium," vol. 

 xvi. part i.). 



" Contribution a I'etude des Muscinees de I'Ouest et du littoral," 

 by A. Coppey ("Bulletin de la Societe Botanique de France," 191 1, 

 p. xxi). 



