282 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, de. 
At the reg Meeting of the Linnean Society on May 24th, 
Dr. D. H. Scott, who was re-elected President, delivered an 
address which dealt chiefly upon adepiabon.! in fossil plants. The 
Linnean Gold Medal was presented to Prof. Bower. 
meeting of the same Society on June 3rd, Mr. A. D. 
Cotton showed dried and recent specimens in formalin of Colpo- 
mema sinuosa Derbés & Sol. from Weymouth, explaining how this 
Mediterranean species had advanced during the last few years up 
the French coast into the English Channel ; it was bellowed to act 
raacote re young a by peaking them adrift on its rising 
nded with air. Mr, A. R. H 
and the position and function of ve short internode in the Genus 
parent and in the recent Hquisetacee.” The author stated that 
a specimen of Calanttes Schutzet Stur., shortly to be figured, 
exhibits graphically the fistular character of the stem in Calamites 
a specimen three feet long having been split into two portions 
Nin Cot Sa and so Bieedine In the same or ant (from the 
) 
are specially marked. In the first case no other figure illustrates 
the hollow pith in Calamites so we the second case the 
ll, and in nd 
uniform length of the intern dei is extremely interesting. 
As a result of a study of this specimen and of a comparison made 
between it and specimens of the recent species of Equisetwm, it is 
found that there is a strong resemblance between the two group 
t 
that similar ohearvatio s have so © been ‘slides aa following 
peat the rrence of two girder-like ae (with diaphragms) 
within a short aistade of each other, thus serving the purpose of 
a np ag re is regarded as a ri arr form de- 
rived fr e Calama hrough Equisetites 
In his Acciona bei oii (Jena, Fi eae price 2 marks) 
Dr. Max Hartmann has made a critical examination of the various 
