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BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, de. 
At the meeting of the Linnean Society on 5th April, Mr. 
Clement Reid exhibited nearly fifty photographs of plants new to 
the Preglacial Flora of Great Britain. He explained that these 
were derived from material procured at Pakefield, near Lowestoft, 
had occasioned many months’ continuous labour on the part of 
abet Rat now being conducted with a view of permeating the 
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the same meeting Mr. EK. J. Schwartz read a paper on the 
structure of the stem and leaf of Nuytsia floribunda R. Br., which 
was illustrated by lantern-slides. ‘The leaves are linear-acute, of 
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le about one inch, and the stomata, which are in more or less 
regular rows, are transverse to the leaf-axis. In section the leaves 
show a meristele of three bundies embe n a water-storing 
tissue, which is in turn surrounded by the assimilatory tissue; one 
or more resin-sacs are to be found above the bundles. The stem 
. B. Hayata, on Taiwanites, a new 
genus of Conifere from the Island of Formosa. Dr. Masters considers 
the genus a valid one, judging from a small scrap whi had 
received from the author, who believed his new genus to be inter- 
mediate between Cryptomeria and Cunninghamia ; he himself pointed 
out that it combined the foliage of Athrotaxis with the cone of 
Tsuga ; in any case it is a most interesting genus. 
