104 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
the very little leisure he had, he succeeded in drying a collection of 
about two hundred species of plants. Having no means of trans- 
n 
species T. Dyeri. Erichsenta—named after Mr. F. O. Erichsen, with 
whom Mr. hiscleon-Dyek was associated as assistant—is a new 
genus of Podalyriee between pa aaa and Daviesia. p 
that the editor had some good reason for abandoning the lettering 
of the plates, which existed up to 2550 ; only this could compensate 
for the sem inconvenience, 
THE n interesting account of the life-history of a 
epepactans ce Mr. G. T. West in Trans. Edinb. Field Nat. and Mic 
Soe. v. (1 rd Pp. 130-1388. The plant occurs on mud, &c., in sal 
or brackish Seven stages of its life-history are fi 
colours, Colonies of two or four cells are formed by simple cell: 
division, and are enclosed in a thick lamellated integument, since 
each daughter- cell secretes its own integument while still enclosed 
within the stretched integument of the } parent-cell. When at last 
ha outer integument ruptures, the units are set free, and divide 
form new colonies. At intervals a resting-cyst with a spiny 
itt outer coat is formed, and when _ germinates it forms a 
colony by simple cell-division. A colony of two measures about 
55 X 45 uw. To clean the preparation it is placed in water at one 
end ec a dish, mnieh 3 is covered over except at the opposite end; the 
organisms then leave the mud and travel towards the brightly 
illuminated end, and can ey removed with a pipette and mounted 
or preserved in the following solution :—Copper acetate 0-5 gram, 
dissolved in distilled water 100 cc.; to this is added, at ordinary 
temperature, age acacia 65 eae, and when it is aed pure 
rt on the Transactions contains a ‘List of * Intro- 
aa ame 
duced’ or ‘Alien’ Plants ered by Members of the Society in _ 
i ing 190 
plants from seventeen localities, is a eek one, but we do not under- 
iad and the compilers do not explain, the principles on which 
it is constructed. A large number of the species mentioned are 
ti such as Lepidium campestre, L. Smithit, 
Nasturtium palates, a sylvestre—and appear in Topographical Botany 
and in Sonntag’s Flora of Edinburgh without any sign of suspicion. 
The very brief Entnodiaeiita to the paper should surely have been 
more specific on this point. Mr. D. §. Fish’s ‘‘ Notes on the Rarer 
Woodland Plants of Scotland” are illustrated by excellent plates 
showing Moneses, Linnea, and Trientalis i in their native surroundings. 
WE regret to record the death of the mtr Ts —— of 
whom a notice will appear in our next issue 
