280 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Tue death is announced, at the age of forty, of Mr. Henry Lap, 
ag of the small Flora oF Maidstone noticed in this Journal for 
889, p. 882. He added Burbarea intermedia to the flora of Kent 
(Fl. Kent, p. Ixxvi). 
Tue death has recently been announced, at the age of eighty-six, 
of Cuartes Moore, who from 1847 until 1896 was Director of the 
Sydney Botanic Garden. His collections from the northern districts 
of New South Wales are utilized in the Flora Austr og soe in 1868 
he investigated and published some account of the bot any of Lord 
Howe Island, three hundred miles off the coast of Sydney : he also 
st a in New Caledonia. Besides a few papers, Moore published 
n 1893 a useful Handbook of the Flora of New South Wales; he also 
contomplated a flora ce i ord Howe and Norfolk Islands, which, 
A Census of the Plants of Rew ‘South Wales from Von Mueller’s more 
comprehensive Census of Australian Plants. Watrer Hinz, at one 
time superintendent of the Botanic Garden at Brisbane, died early 
in this year: his collections pie ‘a vicinity of Moreton Bay are 
tabodied i in the Flora — 
Dr. song Cooxr’s Flora e boys Presidency of Bombay con- 
€ par 
Gangetic Plain—a second instalment, from Caprifoliacee to Cam- 
panulacee, has appeared, completing the first volume. Although in 
get-up inferior to Dr. Cooke’s book, it ma ay prove more convenient 
for use in the field, owing .. its smaller size and thinner paper ; 
the placing at the head of each page the name of the se treated 
therein is also a convenience. he former is publish d by Messrs. 
So. & Francis, the latter at the Office of BD tuctiasit Printing, 
Tue second part of Herr C. Christensen’s Index Filicum (Copen- 
hagen: Hagerup, July 1st, 1905, pp. 65-128, price 3s. 6d.) begins 
with Aspidium appendiculatum and ends with Asplenium refractum. 
een t ; 
to indicate what an important and comprehensive aid the Index 
Filicum, when completed, will fi to fern-students. 
‘“‘Tue Sundew: a moet -eating plant which catches ee 
ants, beetles, butterflies, and dragon-flies” is the startling headin 
say 
reference to dragon-flies as part of the sundew’s prey. The Daily 
News (Aug. hes which rivals the Daily Mail in its scientific re- 
searches, says that “ the housewife has for centuries been turning 
8 \ purpose one of the most fearful of microbes—the — 
praia Cerevisie—which causes bread to rise and is 
| yeast,”’ 
