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BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ée. 
rush Faber. The subject is one with which only those possessing 
special knowledge are competent to deal; and as, to our regret, we 
are not among these favoured few, we must content ourselves with 
calling the attention of those interested to the work. From o 
knowledge of Dr. Bretschneider’s previous undertakings, we have 
no hesitation in saying that this volume is a valuable contribution 
to the History of Botany in China. 
Tuer sixth part of Prof. Macoun’s cheap and useful Catalogue of 
Canadian Plants (Montreal, 1892; pp. viii. 295; 25 cents) enume- 
rates the Mosses. It includes 128 genera and 953 species. Of these 
ab 
period of thirty-one years. All species recorded from Greenland, 
Alaska, and Newfoundland are included. 
In the Transactions of the Eastbourne Natural History Society for 
1891-92, there is a paper by the Rev. W. A. Bathurst, who gives 
ment that he imported plants of Linnea from “ Pontorsina in the 
Encadine,” and “set roots of it in many places” in a forest near the 
i i eve 
Saas V ey. ‘Call it vandalism if you like,’’ he says; an 
without his permission this is the d we should have used, 
unless some stronger expression had suggested itself ost 
: al 
tire absence of anything bearing upon local natural history is 
the chief feature of these Transactions. 
Tae first number of Erythea, the new ‘“‘ West American and 
general” botanical journal, contains two papers by the Editor, Mr, 
