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in the first part contain much that is of interest. Dr. Dahlstedt 
describes new forms of Taraxacum, including a new species, 
T. nevosum. There are nearly three oe of notes upon Huphrasia ; 
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E. latifolia Ostenf., H. gracilis Ostenf., and HE. arctica Lange are 
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ina atson, 
C. micacea Marshall, and C. grenlandica ‘L.’ from the common 
C. officinalis L.”” Dr. Ostenfeld has “ compared authentic speci- 
s of C. micacea Marshall with Ferdese specimens grown in 
broader petals; these differences, however, are not very obvious 
in the figure. 2. reptans he would “ now prefer to take as a dis- 
tinct species and not as a form of R. Flammula.” 
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every other respect admirable work, and that is the absence of 
to understand how a feature so absolutely necessary to the con- 
index is in preparation. It is not, however, too late to supple- 
ment the work by supplying a detail which is essential to its 
com- 
memoration of the 12th Annual Congress, 1907, of the South- 
Eastern Union of Scientific Societies. General Editors: 
C. L.D., B, CO. Potx- 
INGHORNE, B.Sc., F.C.S. (the late). 8vo cl., pp. viii, 526. 
Price 10s. 6d. Woolwich: Labour Representation Printing 
Company. 
Tue botany of this comprehensive and well-printed work, with 
which alone we are concerned, occupies pp. 31-230, and is h 
“The Flora of Woolwich and West Kent (Districts 1 and 2 of 
Hanbury & Marshall’s Flora”); it is edited by Messrs. J. F. Bevis 
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