96 BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 
Dr. Dyer has been appointed K.C.M.G., “in pecans” of 
services rendered to colonial governments.” Gardeners’ 
Chronicle notes that ‘‘the honour is timely and Schram as 
Hd coincides with aes, completion of the great temperate house 
the Royal Gard 
THE ops ak Society of Lisbon has published a Flora de 
Goa e Savantadi by Dr. D. G. — ‘“‘gatalogo methodico das 
plantas medicinass, alimentares e industriaes.’’ There are no 
descriptions, but the useful eapistian of each species are ‘brie 
indicated. 
Any addition to our hae of the flora of the Argentine 
Republic is welcome, but it is easy to see what purpose will 
be served by the very crude seidred lithographs by F. Bur 
meister which form the most prominent feature of a new Flora 
ya 
page of cde letterpress in Spanish by C. Bettefreund, who 
edits the work, = viet Sa _ t introduction on collecting and 
preserving. Ther i siica at systematic arrangement. 
fear that the taniiable object rf the editor to encourage ‘‘ en la 
juventud argentina el interés y el amor por la Flora du su patria” 
will hardly be greatly advanced by this publication. 
Tax second part of Mr. Fryer’s Monograph of British Potamo- 
getons contains descriptions of two species—P. alpinum an 
Grifithii—and two hybrids—P. Billupsit and a a last 
being the very ae plant recorded by Druce in his 
Berkshire Flora as P. alpinus. In the * additions oa corrections” 
to his , Mr. Dias notes ‘ put ? to P. an ee am sis ae 
ns is eitibiedod: Wem ention this because when eakes 
af Mr. rind s plant in this Journal for 1898 (p. 855) we omitted 
to notice his later qualification of the definite statement as to the 
occurrence of P. alpinus in Berkshire. Mr. Morgan’s plates in this 
number are, as always, excellent: the publishers, we regret to see, 
still make them inconvenient for reference by placing their name 
raters we should expect to find that of the plant. 
Tue Gardeners’ Magazine of Jan. 14 has a biographical pene 
of Mr. errr accompanied by an excellent portrait. The w 
says: ‘The history of his life, with its many interestiug soe 
e trust that several ¢ pabiee remain to be 
eet “the tale”? of Mr. Hemsley’s ‘life « ‘is told.” 
Tue last instalment of Prof. Siesnanal s Sylloge Fungorum con- 
sists of an ‘‘ Index universalis et locupletissimus nominum plant- 
arum hospitum Speen omnium fungorum has incolentium 
es usque ad finem anni 1807 innotuerunt,” compiled by Dr 
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