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out next year a solitary radical leaf. These tufts of young plants, 
growing in a small, more or less r regular, circle, therefore have 
appearance of seedlings ; tat such is not the case. ese first- 
year plants give again rise to two to five bulbules, and so the plant 
is propagated without flowering and fruiting. I have not yet been 
able to see a ripe fruit; but who would say the plant is not in- 
digenous? Like other plants whose nativity has been questioned 
from this reason, it has found other ways of perpetuating the race. 
G. C. Drucr. 
PLANTAGO LANCEOLATA VAR. sPH#ROsTACHYA Riut.—I gathered 
ee above te 126) at Holburn Head, Caithness, in 1902, an 
ecorded it in the Annals of Scottish Natural History for 1904, 
172, as P. lanceolata var. capiteliata [Sond. ex] Koch. ave 
the same plant from Tain sand-dunes in East Ross and from Berry 
Head, Devon; and have seen it on Aberfraw Common, Anglesey, &c. 
G. C. Drucs. 
Tue N. Primrose cae the yng of the Linnean 
Society on the 21st December last, Dr. Rendle, in giving a sum- 
mary of the work of the International Botanical Chavis held at 
Vienna in June last, mentioned, an i with the Bote rules 
= nomenclature, that ** Primula s, L. var. acaulis, L. (17538), is 
ritten P. vu Igari is, Huds. (1762), “since the latter raierk Shed! is 
Suelice than Primula acaulis, Jacq.” As we have used the name of 
P. acaulis, L. in the ninth edition of Babington’s Manual, we think 
it well to point out that Linneus, in the * Flora glica,” 1754 
(p. 12), be forms part of the Dissertationes Academica, published 
the name as P. acaulis, with a reference to Ray’s Synopsis (ed. iii.) 
which is satiate to identify the plant intended, so that we think 
P. acaulis L. should stand. Mr. Jackson, kindly helped us 
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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Die Aigen der ersten Regnelischen Expedition. O. F. Bones. 
Stockholm, 1903. 
df S a very oe addition to our knoveheiiaaats of the 
Desmids of Brazil and Paraguay, a region which has previousl 
ro i i —— speci i 
seven pages a text atl five doable plates (practically ten plates), 
containing one hundred and forty-eight excellent figures. The — 
material was “welleated by Dr. Malme, and consisted of twenty-six 
gatherings fro from Rio Grande do Sul, eighteen from Matto Grosso, 
and nine from eens A large number of species and varieties 
occurred in the collections; among them twenty-nine new species 
