46 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
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roni & H. Christ, ‘ Filices in Shen-si collects a J. Giraldi.’ — Id., 
‘Filices Setciouenses a U. Scallan collecte.’—E. Baroni, ‘ Giuseppe 
aero (4 June, 1848-5 May, 1901). 
Torrey Bot. Club (25 Pasko A. Smith, ‘ Charles 
Mons’ "sai -1901: portr.).—P. A “Tybee, ‘ Limnorchis & Piperia.’ 
—G. EH rhout, ‘ New Colorado Plants 
ce Ohvoncle(80Nov. ).—Aster vabeardiiia, sp.n.; Hyssopus 
Fagg var. grandiflorus Rendle.-—(14 Dec.). i ta atr soasajlienlld 
N. KE. Br., Stanhopea cogent Cogn., spp. n 
us de Botanique (‘‘ Octobre ” ; ed 6 Dec.). — A. de 
oincy, ‘ Revision du genre kaae (cor nel.). — A. Lemaire, ‘ Sur 
le gaine de quelques Schizophycées’ (concl.). — P. Guérin, ‘ Dé- 
veloppement de la graine de quelques Sapindacées.’ 
Nuovo Giornale Bot. Ital. ei received si ye ).—L. Vaceari, 
‘Flora cacuminale della Valle d'Aosta’ (concl.). — T. De Stefani 
Perez, ‘Entomocecidiologia della Flora Stony (conel.). — A. 
Trotter, ‘Le ragioni biologische della Cecidogenesi.’—P. Baccarini, 
‘Sulla ene della Sicilia orientale.’ — G. Bargagli-Petrucci, 
‘Le specie di Pisonia della regione dei Monsoni.’ — L. Pampaloni, 
Nostoc pea ren 
Oecsterr. Bot. Zeitschrift (Dec.).—R. Wagner, Erythrina (concel.). 
—K. Hackel, ‘ Neue Griiser’ (C; yphochlena, gen. noy.; Arundinellee). 
—A. yon Hayek, ‘Flora von Steiermark’ (concl. : Hieracium). 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ée. 
Ar the meeting of the Linnean Society on Noy. 21st, Dr. A. B. 
Rendle showed specimens of Rubus australis, the New Zealand 
‘‘lawyer-vine,” which had been sent by Mr. F’. W. Burbidge from 
Ability within the are species. One, leafy form, 
bore leaves with three ie ge leaflets somewhat prickly on the stalks 
and midrib, recalling our native blac In an intermediate 
form the leaflets were much reduced in size, while the stalks were 
longer and much more prickly. In a third the flat leaf- —— had 
completely disappeared, the leaves now consisting of an elongated 
stalk bearing long naked midribs, beset, like the leaf- salle i the 
stem, with strong, short, recurving prickles, by means of which the 
plant climbs over surrounding vegetation. Mr. Burbidge states 
that the three forms are from three distinct 1 pa, reared from 
seeds sent from New Zealand; they are said to be permanent 
under cultivation. Unfortunately there is no oo of the pecu- 
liarities of habitat of the different forms in their native home. 
The scandent type, with its complete reduction of leaf-surface, is 
obviously adapted for growth under much drier conditions than the 
leafy one. In the xerophyte the assimilating function is shared to 
