208 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
first five parts, and it = ivan: to be hoped that he will be able 
to bring this useful w Saher is published by E. Kummer, 
Leipzig) to » qaqa sonipis —W. H. P. 
At the meeting of the eee Béeiety on April 2nd, the ned 
John Gerard, 8.J., F.L.S., exhibited lantern-slides of “ Vege 
Imitations or Mimicries,” amongst them Ophrys me corned on 
sole exceptions vouched for are trees, and occur in the Sapotacee 
and in two genera of the Fagacee. Here the vascular strands 
cupy the corners of a square whose sides are parallel to the 
or Sat are met with. Cases are observed in which the root is 
hexarch or polyarch, and the hypoestyt is tetrarch. ‘Alo fresh 
cotyledon bundles may arise at the node. Twin bundles are the 
rule. The tendency to geophily is seen in the swollen hpyocotyl. 
This region is characterised by many rows of secondary xylem in 
a petiolar sheath encloses the —— ee and the cotyledons 
are partly fused at the sides. The observed can, as a 
rule, be easily correlated aii the habits ot "he plants. 
THE Department of Agriculture for Ireland has issued with 
commendable oni the Report of the ene aia appointed 
in August las ee ee en — into and report on various matters 
relating to the improvement of forestry in cae mare The roy sre 
which is abled by H. i Agora Office, Dublin, costs 64d. ; 
the price of the Minutes of Evidence, Appendixes ia Index 
(pp. 88) is 4s. dd. 
. Lonemans have published a sixpenny edition (the 
ftth) of "Vathet Garsed’s The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer 
hi reviewed in this Journal for 1904, p. 190, on the 
occasion of its first piblieatio’. 
THE follo ites 4 explanation of Plate 4898 should have been 
appended to Mr. Pugsley’s paper on Salvia Verbenaca (p. 151) :— 
1.—Calyx vt oe Vazon Bay Salvia bir hair-clothing and glands charac- 
teristic of the subspecies S. Verbenaca. —Calyx of the EAE: Court 
Salvia with hair- soe and glands chathebirit of the subspecies S. hormi- 
, 4,5.—) us, in setts 8 cue 
Hampton Court Salvia, July, 1907. 6.—Large  peoieaaos — of the 
Vazon Bay Salvia, pane 1907. All about one a-half times natural size. 
The glands of cna Five calyoos au Wiakaity paltenessy igaea 
