836 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
on, hylads, hylodads, and hylophytes diversified the scene.” Apart 
from its phraseology, the book seems to be an important contribu- 
tion to ecology; should a copy reach us for review, we should treat 
it more —— than a casual inspection has rendered possible. 
mento of his long association with botanical teaching 
and eiknadle _ nue me Mr. Francis Darwin was asked to 
" for a portr; . Rothenstein, which was presented 
on Saturday, Octobe r 38 th, ‘to the Botanical Department of the 
University. The presentation formed the oceasion of an interesting 
gathering of Mr. Darwin’s former pupils. 
R. Mon sends us a reprint from ‘ I'he South-Eastern 
Naturalist, 1905,”’ of an interesting paper on the flora of the Reigate 
rict, compiled by himself and ‘Mr. R. H. Welchman, which, we 
gather | 8 bie was read before some recent Congress. We 
are pat ite = the general reader, ‘J. B.” is 
not too a indication of this Ji 1; and * Solius 
hr Bos ie poetry ach. 
district are beginning to redden, and they will be fully ripe late in 
September. This tree is fairly familiar to many of us in the 
metropolis, but how many aie any notion of its history? Its 
berries, seldom eaten nowadays, made a favourite confection in the 
Middle Ages, when the dietetio habits of all Europe were so very 
r the 
gone to the dogs; its berry has fallen on unappreciative times. 
Nobody takes the trouble to pick it, though it is said to possess 
medicinal virtues when dried, and our people do not, as a rule, 
neglect nostrums. € crop t this year is poor. It was unusually 
hea avy in the wet season of 1903.” Perhaps some readers may be 
among the ‘many in the metropolis” to whom the tree is “ fairly 
familiar’; we ourselves are not so fortunate. 
A NEW pets riodical, edited by Dr. F. Wed elkalieiper torte novarum 
described Centralblatt fiir 
specierum regni vegetabilis, further as * 
g und Veréffentlichung von E ! neuer Pflan- 
is being published at Berlin by the b 
The first number contains new species of Spirea by C. K. Schneider ; 
a new Alopecurus (4. Bornmiilleri) by Agapetes 
Hosseana Diels, n. sp. ; and various reprin other 
Tae Report of the Botanical Exchange Club for 1904, by Mr. 
ames Groves, has appeared. We hope to give some extracts from 
it in an early number. 
x. Winuiam of Shrewsbury, died at that’ place on 
Seiches 22nd, at the age a5 — A further notice will 
appear later. 
