190 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Mentha rubra thrown out of the Roebuck garden. A.B.L.” Six 
of Sole’s letters are bound up with the volume.—James Brrrren. 
SENECIO uy Worcester.—In Lees’s Botany of Worces 
shire this plant i is recorded as gitwitiy on an old wall near the Por 
Ferry. At this station it has been extinct for some years, but it is 
now growing in some profusion both by the side of the Virgin Tavern 
oad and near the top of the tunnel in Worcester. —Carbet on REA 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ‘be. 
Ar the meeting of the Linnean Poe, on the 4th of Hy 3 
paper by Mr. R. N. Rudmose-Brown on “The Botany of Gough 
Island”’ was read, Gough Mand or Bikes Alvarez, lies in the 
mid South Atlantic, lat. 40° 20’ S., long. 9° 56’ 80” W., and may be 
a 
Boryana. Four of the seventeen species of phanerogams are almost 
certainly introduced, while two are new to science—a species of 
Cotula and an Asplenium. The Scottish Antarctic Expedition lay 
off the island for three days in April, 1904; but, owing to high seas, 
ee was only Spe ramee on one day, when the materials for the 
present sed were collecte 
Ar the same meeting a paper was read by Prof. A. G. Tansley, 
entitled * The Study of Vegetation: its present condition and 
probable development.” The word (cology, introduced by Prof. 
ackel, means the study of the vital relations of organisms to their 
environment, and by Prof. E. Ray Lankester was termed Bionomics. 
: Py . 
pl 
fact being the association of plan er nite con of 
environment. Instances were given o und in 
meadows, woods, — lds, moors, and dunes. T 
subject is not but the publication of Prof, Warming’s 
Raggee mat in 1895, translated into German the following year 
as Lehrbuch der Utkologischen Pjlareongroraphie made it for the 
first time possible to estimate what has been done, and how much 
remained to be done. It was in this hes that the importance of 
the ed association as the unit was first a raed into view. 
om enelnatne many associations an Aeiadiitaes by more 
general conditions. These may be ‘sted ip Bel ways. Thus, 
_ the detailed study of the unit; the sp rming it, and the 
causes enabling them to maintain their oan : : its phylogeny. 
