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subdivisions reduces the groups of species to conveniently small 
dimensions. Our two British species 7’. alopecuroides and T. an- 
gustifolium, the former common to three continents, and the latter 
very rare and confined to Derbyshire, appear on pp. 214 and 221 
_ respectively.—A. G. 
We are glad to note that Prof. Percival’s excellent manual of 
Agricultural Botany (Duckworth & Co.; price 7s. 6d.), which was 
iced in this Journal for 1900, p. 395, has reached a second 
edition. The fact that a new edition has so soon been called for is 
sufficient evidence that it supplied a want; the present issue “ has 
ear emended and revised throughout in accordance with recent 
work,” 
Tue recent part of Mr. J. M. Wood’s Natal Plants finishes the 
third volume, to which an index and preliminaries are supp ied ; 
the second volume will shortly be completed. The plates in this 
instalment show an advance on those of previous issues, but we 
could wish that the species selected for figuring were of greater 
botanical interest, although doubtless Mr. Wood has reason for his 
choice. The literary portion might be improved, and some of the 
notes—e.y. that on the nomenclature of Coccinia (misspelt Coceinea) 
ue have been omitted without detriment to the value of the 
work, 
Tux Pharmaceutical Journal for Aug. 16 contains the presidential 
address on the botany and botanists of Seotland, delivere by Mr. 
G. C. Druce at the Annual Meeting of the British Pharmaceutical 
Conference held at Dundee on Aug. 12. 
A monocrarn of the genus (nothera (or “Qnothera,” as the 
author prefers to call it) has been published at Le Mans by the 
Abbé H. Léveillé, with the collaboration in the anatomical portion 
of M. Ch. Guffroy. It is illustrated with not very satisfactory ™ 
productions of photographs, as well as by anatomical details, and 
seems a careful piece of work, though somewhat dear at 100 francs. 
We have received Part i., containing the Pteridophyta, Gymno 
sperms, and Monocotyledons, of the Flora Arctica, e ited by Dr- 
C. H. Ostenfeld, and published by the Carlsberg Fund at Copen- 
hagen. We hope to notice it in an early issue. 
Tue Report of the Distributor for 1901 (Rev. EH. 5. Marshall) 
of the Botanical Exchange Club was issued on Aug. 4- 
Tue control of the Royal Gardens, Kew, has been transferred 
from the Office of Works to the Board of Agriculture. 
