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BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ée. 
WE have lee a Flora of Skipton [West Yorkshire] and 
District, ‘compiled by Lister Rotheray, and published by sub- 
scription un nde the auspices of the Craven Naturalists’ pe 
Scientific Association, 1900.” It is a well-printed pamphlet of 
144 pages, and its completeness is ene rthy—the vascular and 
cellular Red ire: being fully enumerated, so that the list con- 
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type, and embrace such curiosities as “* Red Horn-of-Plenty-Lichen,”’ 
 Koeler’ s Crested Grass,’’ ‘* Wood False Brome Grass,” and the 
like. 
n his Botanizing—*a guide to field-collecting and herbarium 
stir (Preston & Rounds Co., Providence, R.I., price 75 cents) — 
Prof. W. W. Bailey has given us, in small compass, all that we 
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chapter on “ equipment,” we have an essay on collecting generally, 
followed by ‘directions for particular families,” including the 
cryptogams. The herbarium next receives roman and ths book 
every page ste evidence of practical knowledge, either from the 
author or from some good authority whom he has laid under contri- 
bution, or who ine contributed special information. The printer 
has done his part well, and the result is an admirable little volume 
which is certain of a large circulation in America, and which many 
on this side the Atlantic will find suggestive and useful. 
HE most recent part of the Icones Plantarum contains several 
ortant items. The following new genera are established :— 
Ratendieoes Stapf (Alismacew) ; Allospondias Stapf (Anacardiacez) ; 
otrypleuron Hemsle y (Scrophulariacex)—the last for four species 
enue placed in Oolabké bdos. Mr. Hemsley also describes, among 
other novelties, a new Castilloa (C. Tunu), a new Pandanus (P 
Cominsii) from the Solomon Islands, and a Chinese Cydonia 
Me bene ant of which ‘‘a more detailed history will appear in 
e Kew Bulletin.” From this we gather that it is intended to 
en tn the Bulletin, which has been in abeyance for twelve 
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acking in special interest—e. g f the new fogpe the figure 
. one of which (Quercus Editha) i i: eeaas poor 
