238 BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 
Ar the same meeting, Mr. C. B. Clarke read a paper on Carex 
Wahlenbergiana Boott, of which he exhibited the type-specimens 
figured in the Illustrations of the Genus Carex (vol. ii. 1860, p. 101, 
pls. 301-305). He showed that the plants figured by Boott on these 
plates (figs. a, 8, y, } & «) were not all referable to the same species. 
He considered that the name Wahlenbergiana should be restricted to 
the plant a, from which £ and y (regarded as identical) differed by 
having the spikes more clustered and the utricles conspicuously 
hairy, and for this form, from Bourbon, he propose me 
bergiana even in external aspect; and, having regard to the’ deeply- 
stained utricle, Mr. Clarke proposed to name this Carea hamato- 
saceus, sp.n., although it was perhaps hardly separable specifically 
from Carex Renschiana Boeck., also from Madagascar. The specimens 
from Fernando Po, collected at an elevation of about 8000 ft., and 
inscribed Carex Wahlenbergiana by Boott’s own hand, Mr. Clarke 
or cay to distinguish as Carex chlorosaccus, sp. n., from the green 
utricle, 
In asserting that the three species, Carex Steudneri of Abyssinia, 
C. chlorosaccus of Fernando Po, 
ar. « and var. 3 pilosus appeared to him greater than the differences 
existing between many admitted species of the section Indice. 
Tue little volume on The Principles of Agriculture, which Prof. 
L. H. Bailey has edited for the Macmillan Company of New York 
(4s. 6d. net), contains a chapter by Mr. B. M. Duggar on ‘‘ How 
the Plant lives,” which is a model of clear and simple teaching, and 
other useful essays on pastures, meadows, forage, and the like; but 
the volume hardly calls for more extended notice in these pages. 
Rev. G. Henslow has published his collection of Medical 
: h rred to some tl 
THE 
Works o 
nected with the old names of plants, but, as we have received no 
copy for review, we are unable to notice it at length. _ 
