498 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
. Bot. Zeitschrift Oy — K. fori — —K. 
Palla, *v Pilo bolus-Arten’ (1 — J. Frey ‘Flora von Staion 
mark’ (cont.: Sedum and gi late = ¢ ‘ ery ‘ Die 
Achselknospen der Carpinus.’—L. Sarnthein, ‘ Pilzflora von Tyrol.’ 
C seatia (Nov.).— C. W. Bissell, ‘Abnormal flowers in Leonurus 
‘ardiaca.’ 
” ie Linn, Soc. _ Ser. : vol. v. cog 18). — A. B. Rendle, 
‘Supplementary Notes on Najas.’ — (part 14). W. C. Worsdell, 
‘Comparative anatomy of. Encephalartos’ (1 pl.). 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, de. 
Dr. C. A. M. Linpman, of the Swedish Beane! iran: to 
Brazil, 1892-4, has recently published some interesting and 
valuable results eb in the course of his ¢ ravels. tn . Vege: 
tationen i Rio Gra do Sul”’ (Stoc kholm: Nordin & Josephson, 
1900) we have a setae of sixty-nine sketches, mostly clever re- 
productions from photographs, with accompanying letterpress to 
illustrate the botanical topogra aphy of the ie es extremity of 
Republic. The seri ee which is admirably sprapleke and presented 
with much judgment, is designed to give the riag a good idea of 
So 
uth American subtropica al Yazetation, and does this with con- 
spicuous success ra zur Palmenfiora ubeeedibas + 
(extr. fro enska Vet-Akad. Handlingar, Band 26) 
Journ. Bot. 1898, p. 355), and based upon material sone 26 largely 
in the same districts, still adds considerably to our knowledge 
of South American Palms. Another memoir ies the same pen is 
‘‘ Nagra bilder frin den sydamerikanska vildmarken el gran chaco” 
(extr. from Tidsk. af svenska sillskapet for antropologi och geo- 
graphi, 1899), which, besides illustrating and describing fhe 
botanical topography of the Gran Chaco, that little-known but 
& Scart a region, deals also to some extent with its ethnology. 
and is extracted from 
twenty-fifth volume of the serial quoted above. This treats of the 
So ; 
including the curious several-faced leaves (‘‘folia tabulata’’) of 
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direction of me leaves of climbing plants (hanging eee 
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