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often cheap or home-made, is described. The many pages of 
instructions for the preparation of microscope-slides, and the 
numerous hints as to how the many pitfalls that beset the 
beginner may be avoided, are written with the greatest care and 
clearness, and will appeal to bryologists generally. The plates 
are prepared from accurate drawings. Wes 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, éec. 
At the meeting of the Linnean Society on 18th June, Mr. C. H. 
Wright exhibited specimens of Melitella pusilla (Composite), a 
genus described recently by Cav. Sommier, from material collected 
by him i in the island of Gozo, near Malta. Mr. W. C. Worsdell 
exhibited a large series of seedlings of the Scarlet Runner bean, 
Phiissoias multiflorus, exhibiting artificial fasciation induced by 
cutting away the plumule early in its growth. A paper on the 
altitude and distribution of plants in Southern Mexico, by Dr. 
Hans Gadow, F.R.8., was communicated by Dr. A. B. Rendle in 
the absence of hor in Mexico. Dr pf read a paper 
n Gardenia Thunbergia and its allies, by himself 
Hutch n rdenias, fifteen in number, fo he bulk 
of the section Hu-Gardenia in ca, and extend over the whole 
of the Continent with the exception of the temperate north. 
wing to the instability of certain characters and the scantiness 
of the material in the older collections, they have not been well 
discriminated a far, with the igo go a bgt Thunbergia 
came to cover finally half-a-doz f perfectly distinct species 
ranging all over Africa, whilst oy plant originally described under 
that name is actually confined to a limited area in Sout rica. 
are here described for the first time set out in key form 
whilst their distribution and synonymy and full descriptions of 
the new species are given in the second part of the paper. It is 
also pointed out that the segregation of the “ Thunbergia”’ group 
from the closely allied Sioiocas hae stock of § Hu-Gardenia must 
have taken place in pre-Tertiary tim 
— Mycological Society continues with unflagging zeal its task 
f encouraging and Rta the study of systematic Myco 
in in this country, and the recently issued Transactions record its 
activity during 1907. At the annual foray held at Newcastle in 
e beginning of October, after several weeks of drought had 
followed a cold wet summer, the climatic conditions for a good 
fun est were as unfavourable as could well be imagined ; 
but by diligent collecting two hundred and eighty-five species 
were obtained, including two new to the British Flora—Hygro- 
tret Sace. 
