526 BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, E‘tC. 
Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschrift (Nov.). — K. Fritzch, * Zur Sige 
; rid é 
‘ Bryologische skarneae einer Reise des Dr. Matz durch die 
iberische Halbins 
a ha see —A. G. Leavitt, ‘ Adventitious plants of Drosera’ 
(1 pl.). — J. Holden, ‘ New Marine Algee from Bridgeport, Conn.’ 
(1 pl.). 
BOOK-NOTE 8, NEWS, de. 
HN WHITEHEAD, who was born at Muswell Hill on June 80, 
Jou : 
1860, died at the port of Hoi-Kow, China, on the 2nd of last June. 
ewas an ornithologist who, while making collections of birds in 
Borneo and the Philippines, a acally collected plants, which he ~ 
presented to the National Herbarium. Some of these proved to be 
new, and were described in this Journal, principally by Dr. Rendle 
in 1896 (pp. 355-358). In 1893 Whitehead published in a hand- 
some quarto volume the zoological results of his Maiplotaittin of 
a Balu. He is commemorated in Rhododendron Whiteheadii 
Kew Bulletin for ‘* September and ler ” (published at 
the end of October) is mainly devoted to Fun Mr. Massee has a 
Revision of Tilletia (with a plate) and a large nib of descriptions 
of new species under the heading ‘* DCLYLII. gi 5 isotics it.” 
(and that in Roman numerals) will disfigure the pages of the 
Bulletin. The paiaieing articles are of no botanical interest. 
Tux fifth fascicle of the Set of British Hieracia dapat se out 
by Messrs. Linton contains fourteen endemic for isto- 
phyllum var. cremnanthes; H. anglicum var. julian: H. 
breadalbanense; H. lastophyllum var. planifolium; H. Sommerfeltii 
var. tactum; H. hypocheroides var. Cyathis; H. regatum Var. 
prolongatum; H. Pictorum var. dasythria! H. cymbifolium ; im 
diaphanum var. cacuminum; H. sciaphilum var. pulchrius ; #7. 
igidum var. nidense; H. strictum var. subcrocatum; H. strictum 
var. amplidentatum. The following note accompanies the set :— 
Af British species of [H. atratum] is not in all points 
identical with Fries’ plant; the phyllaries in ours are a little 
more floccose, and the e ligules glabrous or glabrate; hence it is 
designated H. atratum Fr., f. rma]. H. anglicum var. jacult- 
yellow-green wine its more hairy less setose heads, and more or 
oe pilose ligules - Schmidtit is as near the type as we have in 
eritain. Hi, aggreyaton var. iar ae ae ao is a bah et form in the 
ing accentuated 
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