248 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
country, with the means to do It would seem to us tha 
Country-Side might have asefally. Sed itself to the instruction = 
its contributors. In the same number we fi e follow 
‘* He we see the little wild strawberry (Fr ae fica) pa Seed 
with its modern garden representative. All are familiar with the 
former plant, and with its delightful sub- ery ite. so grateful to 
the palate on a hot June day. But not everyone realizes that 
many of the finest varieties of sabre strawberries are the direct 
descendants of the little wilding. Such, however, i x the case, erin 
other varieties have been pro oduced from the hau boy (F. ae 
another specimen (sic) of strawberry.”” We a sre Sted 
that the “finest varieties of cultivated strawberries’’ were the 
product of yet another “specimen,” F’. chiloensis. We think ‘‘ the 
young naturalist” will do better to confine himself to “ Our Noah’s 
Ark Competition’ and similar delights provided for him by the 
editor han to trouble about establishing plants in ‘ new natural 
places.” 
Banxs’s Newfoundland Journal, which (see Journ. Bot. 1904, 
352) was in the possession of the a te sei 8. W. Silver, has been 
p Ww 
Australian Branch of the Royal ene Society, Adelaide. 
Tue third volume of Prof. Saal Ward’s series on Trees 
(Cambridge beers Press, 8vo, pp. xil, 402, price 4s. 6d. net) 
deals with ‘‘ Flowers and Inflorescences.”” Li ke its S$ pr spree 
it is walk printed er wed illustrated ; tschioalatiae are avoided a 
far as possible, though the author rightly points out that these ‘me 
necessary to some extent ; a good glossary obviates any difficulty 
that md arise from their employment. A classification of 
Willows by characters founded on the male and female catkins 
dealiactiehs forms a useful ek: 
Botanist’s Album. — Messrs. W. & A. K. Johnston send a som 
what ponderous quarto volume se [prige 5s. ‘) containing fifty sheets of 
plain cartridge paper interleaved with blank plant 
form familiar to s tudents. The dried fous Ss 
paper, e Piesractee 1 schedule filled up. We think it a 
pile rope thod o dering i collecting of 
al ; 
spec’ and that there are better he of form 2 wild = to 
Sait 5 hie fitasellt and powers of observation of students. 
Mr. Garry’s Notes on the Drawings for Sony 3 * English Botany,’ 
issued as a supplement to this —- in 1903-4, have been poare 
in volume form by Messrs. West, Newman & Co., price 6s. As only 
a few copies pene been published, ay application for them should 
be made. An index of genera has dded 
‘HE § sone and concluding part of the second supplement to 
the Index Kewensis has just been issued by the Oxford University 
Press 
