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done, and contains in small compass a vast amount of informa- 
tion, partly derived from this Journal, concerning the numerous 
botanists, from William Turner onwa rds, whose names have been 
associated with the ‘“ eval village.’ 
Tue Journal of Genetics for July, with which a fifth volume 
is begun, contains a paper by Mr. B. Crane, of the John Innes 
Horticultural Institution, on “ Heredity of Types of Inflorescence 
and Fruits in Tomato,” and one by Mr. ateson and Miss 
Caroline Pellew, director aia student respectively of the same 
institution, “On the Genetics of ‘Rogues’ among Culinary 
Peas” (Pisum sativum). ‘ Rogues” are “plants i in a crop which 
do not come true to the variety sown. The term is in use am 
seed-growers, and the remarkable feature shown by these investi- 
gations is that, although “ ae A bang plants mache occasion- 
nary Men 
papers are, as mae admirably ‘lasbegied the first by seven, 
the second by six 
E Kew Ualicin (no. 6, 1915) contains an interesting 
account of the work of Walter Hood Fitch (1817-92) from the 
pen of Mr. W. B. Hemsley, who gives a very =e phrenic ciao of 
his aoriiian more valuable in that much of arly work was 
nsigned. A rough roximate of t 
_ drawings is 9600, and rerene ae a 10,000: u upward s of 
5000 
of these are coloured. -deserved tribute is paid to 
the artist’s power of portraying plants from dried examples; “as 
a fet ue of herbarium specimens Fitch has never been sur- 
] ber of 
Bulletin contains a monograph of Phelipea, of which three species 
(one new, P. Boissiert) are described ma Dr. Stapf, with an in- 
teresting historical introduction ; and a useful paper by Mr. W. 
Dallimore on ‘The European Pines; their ‘Commercial Importance 
and their Relationship to British Forestry.’ The preceding number 
(no.5) is mainly devoted to an illustrated monograph of Sanseviera 
by Mr. N. E. Brown; fifty-three species are described, many of 
3e em 
In a recent issue a viii. no. xl., March, 1915) of Notes from 
the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, an interesting new genus 
ibed 
': reference might perhaps hav made to Mr, 
Ridley’s note on the genus in re Bot. xx. 213 april 1906). 
