; 
; 
! 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 283 
instances of autogamous fertilization known to occur among 
animal and plant Protista in order to show the importance of 
in the Alge and Fungi, the author concludes that all the different 
SS of self-fertilization are to be regarded as reduced and not 
8 primitive processes; also that “the essence of fortilianbion con- 
hermaphrodite in character, during fertilization this 
character is disturbed and one fusing nucle es potentially 
male and the other femalee It seem to us that all cases of 
isogamous fertilization are based upon sexual a even 
a. it is not possible to demonstrate any such sexual 
difference shine G. 
: Mr..A. R. 
orwood. Further ine on ae subject by the same author 
ei in his Rb geo Flora of Leicestershire (Trans. Leicester 
Lit. & Phil. Soc. xii. Part i. January, 1909, pp. 15-86). In this 
of Mycetozoa, Algze, Charales, Fungi, Lichens, Hepatic, Mosses, 
aes from the rear and another of those which had been 
those adopted by Meaas . Wheldon and Wilson in their Flora of 
Lancashire. The paper contains aes ae! photographs, and 
forms a valuable county reco 
WE are pleased to see that Me. R. C. Punnett’s compact little 
cee og of Mendelism (Bowes, Cambridge: price 2s.) has now 
ached the issue of a fifth thousand, the third impression of “8 
sedand (revised) edition having been published in February. 
first edition, A sree ont in May, 1905, was noticed in this Fotitieay 
for 1905, p. 277; the work rt since been enlarged from sixty- 
three pages to sipheystour, and a short index of subjects is added. 
WE a eg! the first number of Dérfleria, which is de- 
ha 
Hataient adele It is edited by the  veblighee Herr J. Dér- 
' of Vienna, mye invaluable Botaniker Adress- eich we lately 
iced, who, in an gases article, ‘‘ What I am aiming at,” 
senplifies the above programme and announces that “news 
various kinds will ia a feature of the new monthly. Dérfleria will 
also contain supplements to the Adress-buch. 
