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It will doubtless surprise many that JoHANNSEN maintains a firm 
Lamarckian attitude throughout his book, dealing particularly sympathetically 
with the work of Semon. He says: “Man hat mich ferner ‘reiner Weisman- 
nianer’ genannt. Jeder solche ‘man’ hat mein Buch nicht gelesen oder 
nicht verstanden.”” The reviewer must admit, therefore, that he has not 
understood the author, for after reading the volume he is still firmly convinced 
that in its essentials it is more nearly Weismannian than Lamarckian. O 
course he would not accuse the author of maintaining the morphological 
by most biologists as belonging rightly within the scope of WEIS : 
conception of heredity. 
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us.” In addition he has adopted WEBBER’s term “clone” for a bud 
Taken all in all, one must be very critical to have anything but praise for 
the new Erblichkeitslehre, and it is confidently predicted that it will long remain 
. EAST. 
a classic.—_E, M. E 
MINOR NOTICES 
North American Flora.2~—Volume 15, part 1, contains the Sphagnaceae by 
Alpert Le Roy ANDREWS, the Andreaeaceae by ELIZABETH GERTRUDE 
Berton and Juuta Trrvs Emerson, and the Archidiaceae, Bruchiaceae, 
Ditrichaceae, Bryoxiphiaceae, and Seligeriaceae by ELIZABETH GERTRUDE 
IAMS. New combinations occur in Sphagnum, Ditrichum, Di- 
cranella, Campylopodium, Oncophorus, Austinella, Leucoloma, and Dicrano- 
Jum. New species are described in the following genera: Dicranella (2), 
Dicranum (1), Campylopus (4), and Octoblepharum (1). Volume 22, part 5, is 
voted to a continuation of the Rosaceae by PER AXEL RypBERG and con- 
tains the genera Poterium to Rubus inclusive. New species are described in 
~ following genera: Agrimonia (2), Adenostoma (1), Geum (4), Sieversia (1), 
ewonic (1), Cercocarpus (7), and Rubus (19).—J. M. GREENMAN 
SUN eer 
*North American Flora. Vol. 15, part 1, pp. 1-75, June 14, 1913; part 2, 
* Na August 8, 1913. Vol. 22, part 5, pp. 389-480, December 23, 1913- 
New York Botanical Garden. 
