142 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
brackets. And the following aliens should appear ina new edition :— 
Cardamine trifolia (B. E. CG. Re ep. 1903, p. 9); Lysimachia ‘ila, 
Juncus tenuis, which requires some comment; Linaria origanifolia 
mu lricata, which have been seat band in Sou h Wales; Ribes 
sanguineum ; Bromus japonicus ; Valerianeila iieosaacs and others. 
H. J. Rippetspetu, 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, éde. 
the meeting of the Linnean aes on Feb. 15th, Mr. B. 
Davaen Jackson read a note on the distribution of the genus 
Shortia. It was a ‘out that there were three undonbtedly 
good oY . S. galacifolia Torr. & Gray, 9. uniflora Maxim 
and S. s pseete one doubtful species—S. rotundifolia Makin o—from 
sine" Sima, to the east of Formosa ‘eases rotundifolius 
Maxim., who could not describe the flower), and S. thibetica Franc 
which was remote from the rest, and by Bentham raid Hooker, and 
pet cei with good reason to constitute a monotypic genus, 
Ar ¢ ‘hd "pbstng of the poor Society on March 1st, Dr. D. H. 
Scott described «A N New Type of Stem from the Co al-Me easures.’ 
i he 
derived from one of the roof-nodules which generally represent a 
peculiar flora, tstne from that of the seam-nodules immediately 
discovered a wear’ of two before the stem itself came to light 
fragment was about 15 em. long, and belonged to a stem ca ieee 
siderable size, the diameter being about 12 x 6-5 The structure 
is a single pri Se stele, nearly 5 cm. in its greatest diameter by nearly 
cm. in breadth The ule ye ias without a pith, and con- 
ars a 
of Myeloxylon, the petiole of Maule ‘The bundles, however, are 
concentric, not teral, and the petiolar structure agrees very 
