56 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [JULY 
more elementary and would be used by students who have had only a general 
course in botany. The second paper is more advanced and could be appreci- 
ated only by students who have some previous knowledge of Gymnosperms.— 
C. J. CHAMBERLAIN. 
Indian Botanical Society.—A notable botanical movement in India is the 
recent organization of “The Indian Botanical Society,’ whose aims, consti- 
tution, and list of members have just been published for distribution. It is 
stated briefly to be ‘‘a society for uniting the botanists and promoting the 
botanical interests of India.’ A more detailed statement of aims is to improve 
the quality and content of botanical instruction, to encourage and promote 
research, to provide a central exchange, and to make available to members 
the scattered and insufficient botanical literature that reaches India. The 
president is WINFIELD DuDGEON of Ewing Christian College, Allahabad City, 
and the other officers, three of whom are Indians, represent other institutions. 
The society begins with 85 members, representing 10 provinces of India.— 
i ek 
African veld.—In a description of the vegetation of South Africa, PoLE- 
Evans” uses the term “‘veld” to include all the native vegetation ranging 
from a rich forest on the southeastern coast to a desert in the interior Karroo. 
He covers the ground as in a former article noted in this journal,3 but with 
more emphasis on the economic resources and possibilities of each region. 
The nineteen divisions into which he divides the region possess rainfalls ran- 
ging from zero to 70 inches per annum, while the diversity in vegetation is 
correspondingly great. This diversity is made evident by excellent illustra- 
tions, as well as by lists of species and the enumeration of resources of timber, 
bers, gums, and fruits in addition to the forage plants ——Gro. D. FULLER. 
Embryogeny.—SovuEGES,* in continuation of his numerous detailed studies 
of the embryogeny of various families of seed plants, has reported his results 
' for Urtica pilulifera, Senecio vulgaris, four species of Rumex, and a species of 
Rheum. The details are too numerous to recite, but the excellent figures 
present the facts clearly for those using such data.—J. M. C 
22 PoLE-EVANs, Fe ts fog veld: its resources and dangers. So. African Jour. 
Sci. 17: 1-34. figs 
23 Bor. Gaz. hai ‘os 
, RENE M., Embryogénie 0 kip reales fons de l’embryon 
chez,l’Urtica pilulifera. Compt. t. Rend. 1 . 21.1920 
———, Emb ce rah —. = développement 
de l’embryon chez le Senecio vulgaris. Compt. Rend. 1 
———, Embryogénie des Composées. Les ape. es Me ues de 
VYembryon ~ le Senecio vulgaris. Compt. Rend. 171:1920, 
——, Te sur l’embryogénie des Polygonacées. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 
IV. 20: ae pervs ; 
