216 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
particularly well acquainted. In this paper he Say at the dis- 
posal of mycological students the results of years of observation 
and research on Russula in the field and in the Ioratory Other 
‘ittinoabiag papers are by Mr. A. D. Cotton on Clavari wi 
Allen 
oa, Miss rrain 
and on New and Critical British Microfungi, and by Mr. Carleton 
Rea on Larger Fungi. There is also an obituary notice of — late 
Dr. C. B. Plowright, one of shins to whom the Society owes its 
pape et by whose death the members have to mourn b the loss of 
warm friend, a teva companion, and a distinguished mycolo- 
nese L. 8S. 
Tue National Museum of Science and Art, Dublin, is to be 
congratulated on its pee ine in oie at a penny a Hand List 
32 well-printed Siccin mo aver [aleve thy in that it follows 
ssi clssifietion of Engler’s "81 yllabus der Pflanzenfamilien, the 
arrangement e familiar to British and Irish botanists being 
given in an spends e nomenclature is that of the British 
Museum List of Seed-plants, with certain corrections; it is to be 
regretted that one of the compilers of that list was not consulted, 
as some additional corrections, reserved for a new edition, might 
ave been made here. -The Irish distribution of each species is 
indicated. The list was prepared by Miss M. C. Knowles, an 
assistant in the “ Botanical Division” of the Dublin Museum 
THE latest instalment (parts 5 and 6) of Karten and Schenk’s 
seful Vegetationsbilder (published by G. Fischer of Jena 
duction on the Flora and descriptions of the plates, by Prof. 
Johnson, of Dublin; the plates themselves—twelve in number, 
two = aes being gured on some of them—are from photographs 
. Welsh, of Belfast. Some of these represent the vege- 
anea is conveyed by the head of a boy appearing 
from ations it. The ong of the two parts is 8 marks. 
, B.A., of Emmanuel College, Cam- 
bridge, re Hzhibitioner ‘of that College and Robert Platt 
Biological Research Scholar at Victoria University, oe 
has been a an Assistant in the Department o: 
British Muse’ 
WE regret is record the recent deaths of Mr. S. A. Stewart, 
of Belfast, and of Mr. John a Carruthers, of whom some 
account Ne sph? in an early iss 
NEw: ApER Borany. —The Dai ily News continues to illuminate 
the hstahicat a world; in its article on “The Brittle Man” in the 
rs 
the of a 
medicine as 5 nj fo found a wld in this country, ut more common 
s the correspondent who sends it, ‘is 
ne Mood: even for the o Daily News.’ 
