276 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
noteworthy omission is that of Polygonum Deasyi—the name 
substituted in Journ. Bot. 1900, 495, for the preoccupied trivial 
tibeticum (which is cited in the Supplement) under which the plant 
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number of the Bulletin bearing date « December, 1895" was not 
issued until 1896, and the new species published therein should 
therefore have been included in the Second Supplement. 
years, it has not been found possible, since 1899, to issue any 
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resumption of the Annual Reports of the Gardens and Herbarium, 
for which the Bulletin was at best an ineffective substitute. 
Organography of Plants, especially of the Archegoniata and Spermo- 
h By Dr. K. Gorsez. Authorized English Edition by 
M RdteMe. Part 
ALFOUR, AL, oD, ' 
(Special Organography), Royal 8vo, pp. xxiv, 708. With 
417 woodcuts. Price 21s. net, in cloth; 24s. net, in half 
morocco. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 
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$ introduction the author briefly discusses the question of ‘‘ the 
relationship between formation of organs and adaptation ’’—* Are 
e specific marks which separate from one another the several 
species, genera, and so forth, within one series, of a purely ada 
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tive nature as the extreme disciples of the ‘natural selection’ 
