38 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
make an easy book to read. As in other similar cases, such as 
Clerk Maxwell’s Say and Motion, the reader will often regret 
the cramped space at the writer’s disposal; but the result is a 
work which is Stubiende stimulating mental pabulum. 
G. 8. BouLGEr. 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, de. 
At the meeting of the Linnean Society on November 19, 1914, 
Mr. C. H. Wright gave a summary of his paper, ‘ The Mosses 
and Hepatic of West Falkland Islands, from the collections of 
Mrs. Elinor Vallentin.” Having made a collection of phanero- 
gams and ferns, ba formed the basis of a paper published in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xxxix., Mrs. Vallentin returned to = 
Falkland Islands and made collections of the lower Cryptogam 
The present paper contains the determinations of this ean 
and attempts to bring together the information previously pubs 
lished on other collections. Gaudichaud, in 1825, enumerated s 
mosses and three hepatice collected during Vawcuet s Severo. 
D’Urville in the Mém. Soc. Linn. de Paris, iv. p. 597, gave a more 
extended list. Sir J. D. Hooker in his Flora Antarctica extended 
t 
Cardot. The genera represented are either terrestrial or aquatic, 
and the species much resemble those from the northern hemi- 
sphere. Many are capable of couatite cold and drought, such as 
8 
das Pflanzenleben der Falklandinseln, has indicated the special 
plant-formations with which the mosses and hepatics are associ- 
ated. The proportion of Pleurocarpi to peace is very small. 
The paper was aE d by specimens and coloured drawings 
eae by Mrs entin. 
japonica A. Br. He stated that Tsostes japon rare Br., which 
has a fairly wide distribution in ia tae is the rey known 
rig : : 
Sorae rs the aan rod growth of ‘the os all external morpho- 
logical differentiation between the two organs has been com- 
pletely lost. The actual apex of the stem has the form of a 
conical mass of tissue situated at the base of a funnel-shaped 
depression in the cortex. In this protuberance no definite apical 
cell can be distinguished. The cauline primary vascular axis is 
a non-m ted monostele. Primary phloem surrounds the 
central xylem core. An endophytic col areuner is found in the 
