BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 195 
Carleton Rea’s presidential address—“ Some remarks on basidia 
i —is 
” 
1901—was mainly due. The record errs on the side of over- 
completeness—the book might have been reduced by at least one- 
half without detriment to its general interest; even the members 
classified under sections, occupies pp ose under: 
Botany mostly stand under Mr. ce’s name, and here some 
further information would sometimes ha n 
scribed for Great Rritain (p. 355)”’—this we do not find in 
Druce’s List. On the same page we read that “Dr. J. A. H 
spot was a new station for it. 
that Mr. Druce “exhibited a sedge (Carex rhynchophysa L. C.) 
Swann showed a grass, easily grown, which would form a good 
Tur third edition of Dérfler’s indispensable Botaniker-Adress- 
buch (Wien, iii. Barichgasse 36; price 13s.) is evidently much 
pages, and by its extent is an answer to the pessimistic view 
sometimes enunciated that the interest nowadays taken in British’ 
botany is somewhat small; for it seems not unfair to assume that 
the bulk of those whose names are not associated with official: 
posts are in some way concerned with our island flora, The 
