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of the work is that of the person who likes to “mess about” with a 
microscope, and shows you with equal glee the Lord’s Prayer, the 
Royal Family, the leg of a flea, and so forth. It will enable such an 
one to enlarge his repertoire, and may perhaps induce him to obtain 
one of the more useful works to which reference is made on the last 
age. 
In the Journal of the Linnean Society (No. 287, July 1) Mr. G. C. 
Druce publishes his reasons for concluding that the Irish sedge 
figured and described in this Journal for 1893 as Carew rhyncho- 
t dis- 
appear from our lists. We note that Mr. Druce, following the 
Index Kewensis, cites the species as of ‘‘ Fisch., Mey. & Avé-Lall. 
Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. ix. Suppl. 9.”’ It is true that the ‘“ ani- 
madversiones” in which the plant is described is signed by these 
three botanists, but the name is claimed for C. A. Meyer on an 
earlier page (2) of the Supplementum, and there seems no reason to 
differ from Richter and other botanists, who assign the species to 
him exclusively, 
PRAISEWORTHY step in a direction where more are needed is 
‘Contributions to the Bryological Flora of Southern India,” by 
V. F. Brotherus, officially published in the Records of the Botanical 
Survey of India (vol. i. No. 12. Calcutta, 1899. Pp. 811-829). It 
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is a ‘‘Report on a collection of mosses made by Dr. T. L. Walker 
in Coorg during the cold weather of 1897-98,”’ and contains ninety- 
nine species, of which nineteen are new. Among the amiable 
features of this useful report may be mentioned the modernized 
classification and nomenclature, and the precision with which the 
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little or nothing had been published previously upon the mosses of 
€ southern part of the peninsula, except the Neelgherries, the 
present contribution to our knowledge is very weleome.—A. G. 
publish a full notice of the whole work, but we will not delay 
recommending it to British botanists, not only on account of the 
valuable critical information which it contains, but for its cheap- 
ness; the two parts before us contain four hundred pages of closely 
but clearly printed matter, and cost only 7 marks 80 pfg. (Berlin: 
Borntraeger). 
HE part of the Icones Plantarum issued in June is largely 
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anettia) from New Guinea; and Mr. Hemsley has numerous novelties. 
Many of the plates, though doubtless accurate enough, leave some- 
thing to be desired in 
the folding plate 2619, for example, is very badly arranged, and 
would have been more satisfactory if treated as two separate figures. 
