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elsewhere, but at the present time only about 50 of these remain 
peculiar to the island. e flora as now known amounts to about 
1400 species, of which 100 are regarded as endemic, though probably 
many will be found natives of the mainland. Botanizing is difficult, 
as the collector has to hack his way through bamboo and shrubs 
amongst the boulders, some of which are large enough to block the 
passage. Ferns amount to 100; Grasses about as many; Legu- 
minose nearly as many; between 70 and 80 Cyperacere ; Composite 
over 60; an nd Orchids 60. Quercus Eyrei, first found by Capt. 
Champion, was not collected by any recent collector till the author 
refound it in quantity; even Hance had declared that Champion 
must have been mistaken in his locality. a luxuriance usually 
associated with tropical vegetation is here wanting, due to the 
poverty of the soil, which is pinitat exclusively disintegrated granite. 
he new territory leased to Great ritai 8 has an area 0 
e will 
doubtless prove rich in plants. conclusion, some lantern-slides 
were shown, when . apiayed the character of the vegetation and 
scenery of the ¢ 
A FEW one se the Second Supplement to the Biographical 
Index of British and Trish Botanists have been reprinted from this 
Journal, and may be had of the publishers. A few additions and 
corrections have been made, and one remains to made—Mr. 
Charles Lawson had no claim to the prefix of “Sir,” with which. 
he has = seo: by the compilers. 
w genus and species of green alge, a minute pelagic 
ovganiom called Clebiantita Markhamiana, is described by Mr. G. 
Murray in the Geographical Journal, xxv. 1905, pp. 121-123. It 
was obtained by tow-netting in the Atlantic, a few degrees south of 
the equator, during the outward voyage of the British Antarctic 
Expedition. Four stages of its life- history are figured on a coloured 
plate. It consists 8 of co olonies of minute green spheres enclosed 
) a embrane, whi 
within on stout muci 
strati fied as the units repeatedly divide. The author speaks of 
np 
that its nearest allies are from fresh water; the chlorophyll-green 
colour, the oil-drops, and the lamellated integument are suceeatiye 
of Palmellacea, and in particular of Gleocystis, of which two marine 
poe are known, The name Clementsia has been Fare by Mr. 
J. N. Rose (in Bull. New York Bot. Garden, iii, 8 (1908) ) for a 
genus of Crassulacea based upon Sedum rhodanthum A. Gray. _ 
a recent (January) part of Hooker's Icones Plantarum contains 
u, much matter of interest. Dr. Stapf has elaborated eleven 
Thiselton-Dyer, who is a mechanical come aa was € 
on the official tests of the pumping machinery for the Coolgardie 
Water Supply, makes no pretension to botanical knowledge, but in 
