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About one-third of the volume is devoted to a discussion by Dr. E. WrrtH of 
the ecological aspects of the vegetation, and this is illustrated by unusually fine 
figures and ro plates (half-tones and photogravures), showing the formations and 
some individual plants. The annual course of vegetation on Kerguelen is also 
treated at some length.—C. R. B. 
Errera Botanical Institute.—There has come to hand the second volume of 
papers from this institute, two volumes of which, published earlier, were noticed 
in this journal recently. This volume® contains several papers on nitrates and 
ammoniacal salts, especially in relation to yeasts and other fungi and to root- 
tubercles, by LAURENT and by MARcHAL; some brief notes on microscopical 
and bacteriological technique by ERRERA and DE WEvRE; a considerable number of 
papers on the occurrence, localization, and significance of alkaloids in plants by 
ERRERA, CLAUTRIAU, MAISTRIAU, MOLLE, DE WEVRE, DE WILDEMAN and 
DE Drooc; several papers on proteids by ERRERA, MARCHAL, CLAUTRIAU, and 
DE WeEvre. All these papers have been published before, dating from 1881 to 
1904, but mostly between 1888 and 1895. The volume closes with an annotated 
bibliography (41 pages) on alkaloids, glucosides, and tannins, etc., brought together 
ErRERA and not previously published.—C. R. B. 
British vascular plants.—Messrs. JAMES BritTEN and A. B. RENDLE have 
compiled a list of British seed-plants and ferns? in accordance with the inter- 
national rules of nomenclature adopted by the Vienna Congress. The list is 
most timely and will prove a great convenience to students of the British flora. 
The British systematists are now in a condition of most enviable uniformity as to 
nomenclature, evidently having taken part in the Vienna Congress in the expecta- 
tion of abiding by its decisions, and giving up, for the sake of harmony, even so 
cherished a custom as using the specific name first employed in the genus accepted. 
If our own flora were not so extensive, and if our own systematists were content 
to waive individual opinions that did not happen to be accepted by the Congress, 
such a working-list might be prepared for this country.—J. M. C 
NOTES FOR STUDENTS 
Items of taxonomic interest.—L. M. UNDERWooD (Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 33: 
591-605. 1906) has revised the American species of Stenochlaena, 12 being 
recognized and 3 new ones described.—W. H. BLANCHARD (Torreya 7:7, 8. 1997) 
has described a new Rubus (blackberry) from Mass. and R. I—A. W. Evans 
(Bryologist 10: 24-30. 1907) discusses and approves the reasons assigned by 
5 Bor. GAZETTE 43: 215. 1907. 
© Recueil de I’Institut Botanique (Université de Bruxelles) publié par L. ERRERA. 
Tome II. Imp. 8vo. pp. xii+4z5. pls. 4. figs. 3. Bruxelles: Henri Lamertin. 1906. 
fr. 20 
7 List of British seed-plants and ferns. Department of Botany, British Museum 
(Natural History). pp. 40. Published by the Trustees of the British Museum. 4d. 
