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Rk J. Donrier, of Vienna, is preparing a new edition of his 
very anit Botanists’ Directory, which will be issued in 1900. He 
will be glad to receive any corrections of addresses, &e. 
Unver the title The sites and Decay of Nations, Mr. G. A. 
Daubeny has a ei ‘two essays with notes,” dealing respectively 
with ‘‘ Forestry” and “ ritish Forestry” (Simpkin, 1s., pp. 
the former, the author tells us, “‘ was dated Aug. 24th, 1898, before 
the day of Omdurman and the Fashoda incident.” In his con- 
it ; 
it also enables us to look into the future; it shows how the pillars 
of the earth have been shaken and thrown down, and how they can 
and will be rebuilt and re-erected.”’ 
Sir Joun Lussock contributes to the “ pita Scientific 
Series”’ a volume On Buds and Stipules (Kegan Paul & Co., 5s.), 
which is practically a popular abstract of the pa gone previously 
contributed by him to the Journal of the Linnean h 
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devices by which plants protect the young and tender tissues from 
heat, cold, drought, moisture, insects, and other animals”; and has 
thus furnished mek if proof be be needed, of the an for observation 
presented by the most ordinar phenomena of plant life. There is 
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a large series of illustrations, many of them original, Paaae from 
quis sources (duly acknowledged) ; we think it would have been 
wiser to have reduced the number of these and to have Aptboved 
the remainder, as some of those from process-blocks are very poor. 
The four coloured plates first appeared, we believe, in the Linnean 
Society’s Journal. A use ee biscaecias aed and a good index are 
important features of the boo 
OpportuNELY enough, we read in the Daily Graphic (of April 19) 
of a form of stipule which Sir John does not mention, and to which 
he will no doubt be glad to have his attention atieete d, The paper 
in question figured what it called a ‘‘ knotted radish,” of which Dr. 
Arthur E. J. Longhurst, of 4 Eaton Square, sent some bean 
depicted in your. issue of the 10th inst., I venture to offer the fol- 
lowing explan 
hat ie may nol be a real knot in the root at all, but a 
bulging of it, due to uneven pressure from a stone or other 
substance in the soil at a given spot above or below the site of the 
lump, which is a localised enlargement of the root rather than an 
