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author devoted three months to their study. The spikes and 
spikelets of about thirty forms are very nicely figured by a photo- 
graphic process in a series of eighteen plates, accompanied by brief 
descriptions. 
N. Dixon is preparing a new edition of the Handbook of 
British Mosses, and will be glad of any corrections or suggestions in 
order that the new issue may be made as com lete and accurate as 
possible. His address is: Wickham House, East Park Parade, 
Northampton. 
as ‘Tong-bracteated Sedge,” ‘“ Flat-stemmed Meadow Grass,’ 
“Narrow-leaved Hairy Wood Rush,” and the like. The printing 
of the book is highly creditable to the local firm employed. 
THe most recent part of the Icones Plantarum contains an un- 
usual proportion of interesting novelties, and includes the following 
rn- 
H : 
setia Hemsl. (Ternstroemiacer), Cryptoteniopsis and Carlesia Dunn 
(Umbellifere Amminew), and Paradombeya Stapf (Sterculiacez). 
A very handy little Forest Flora for the Saharunpur and Dehra 
3. Gamble, a glossary, and 
es. ‘The book 
In the recent number of Malpighia (xv. fase. 10-12, not dated) 
Prof. Saccardo publishes a supplement to the interesting list of 
portraits of botanists in the Istituto Botanico of Padua issued in 
. 
vol. xiii. of the same journal (1899), pp. 89-128. 
