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134, 169, ead 173) contain only sil and stem-pieces collected 
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1847. The two remaining sheets are labelled ‘2476 ear 
fi. Newbouldii. Shapwick, a Aug. 1889. H. 8. Thompson.” 
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now satisfied that they belong to R. Drejeri G. Jensen. It is, 
however, on Newbould’s specimens that Babington founded his 
R. a and, of these six sheets, five belong to R. Drejeri, 
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1883 (Fl. Dan. xvii. t. 3023 3), while pie s first suggestion o 
the name R. Newbouldii appeared in 1886 (Journ. Bot. p. 280), 
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Unfortunately, the plant represented in No the ‘ Set of 
ritish Rubi’ (1892-1897) as R. Newbouldii Bab. is certainly dis- 
tinct from all the specimens bearing that nam the Cambridge 
perm 
would under the circumstances be certainly convenient—it might 
be founded on my description under that name in p. 66 of my 
Handbook. No one could Pic the Daag ot rei: for some 
such change more than I do.—W. Moyte Roe 
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or of Botany at Prague. Vol. II.  8vo, pp. xii, 1027. 
Jena: Fischer. Price 25 Marks. 
Tue second and gorge volume of Dr. Czapek’s work follows 
Mery. of this Journal. The work is an exhaustive compendium 
of botany from a chemical standpoint, and invaluable as a book of 
itseones The pr “ese volume comprises chapters 28 to 66 of the 
whole work, and begins with a general discussion of the pe 
found in plants, their shyalial properties, chemical composition and 
products of decomposition, pcutculyali by enzyme action, and their 
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of the <a found i in bacteria and fun =e the iat of nitrifica- 
nitrogen- pre by roots 
by leaves of insectivorous plants, te by mosses and alge. Chapters 
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