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ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 888 
De Danske Blomsterplanters Naturhistorte. C. Raunximr. Part I. 
Mon a tyledons. 8vo, pp. lxix, 724, tt. 298. Copenhagen, 
1895-1 
Ir is matter as regret that this book is written in Danish. 
A general account of the morphology, anatomy and biology of a 
large number of North European monocotyledons should interest 
many British and other botanists, but we fear the ngcnes will be 
a barrier which but few will trouble to surmount. It is one thing 
to worry through a paper the contents of which aie important 
bearing on some special piece of work; it is another to read 
700 pages in the yee of general literature. And we do not pretend 
to review the volume as thoroughly as it deserves. Fortunately 
there is a fair sprinkling of illustrations ; according to ~ title- 
page there are 1089 figures in 298 figure-groups, which are suffi- 
ciently clear and are accompanied by good explanations. 
gement of the subject-matter is system th 
first instance, the various genera being ‘considered under their 
respective order The tment of individua * varies 
ccupies nearly eighty pages, and the account includes a sprees 
tive investigation of the internal structure of the stem and the 
form of the leaf, the various methods of growth and agpeaneiaied 
the morphology of flower and fruit, rere! pages on the anatomy 
thod of growth and succession of axes, with sections showing the 
oe of structure of stem and leaf in many of our common British 
species, such as Holeus mollis, Agrostis canina, Phleum pratense, &¢. 
families ow genera mentioned in the text 
ew pb ag an excellent example of work of an extremely 
useful phy which, moreover, requires no elaborate apparatus, and 
has the additional advantage that it can to a great extent be carried 
on out-of-doors. An i. 
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS.* 
Annals of gag 2 “ og 4 —J. W. Snow, ‘ Pseudo- EME. 
& gen.’ (1 p Ward, ‘Thames Bacteria mre (3 pl.) 
eve Darbishie, ‘ ey entilenin & Phyllophora’ (1 pl.). — H. HL. 
es ‘The possible function of the Nucleolus in Heredity.’— 
WH. mai Drothallus - —* clavatum’ (2 pl.). 
* The dates alist to the numbers are those which appear on their covers 
al ram pages, but it must not always be inferred that this is the actual date of 
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