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Blytt's Noryes Flora. A good many bear a close resemblance to 

 Icelandic names, as might be expected from the former occupation 

 of that land by the Norwegians. 



In u critical " genera, only the well known species are named; 

 for example, Hisracium has 14 species against 59 gives byBlytt; 

 Carex 82, against 100 ; and so on. To the tourist who understands 

 Norwegian, or for beginners in botany, the book is a most useful 

 and compact guide, and forms an excellent introduction to lllytt's 

 larger work. 



A. B. 



The Plant World. By George Massee. Whittaker & Co., London. 



1891. Pp. x. 212, 5G figs. Price 3s. 6d. 



Mr. Massee has attempted to give in the narrow compass of 

 this little book a general account of the " past, present and future" 

 of the Plant World. The past history is culled from the fossil 

 remains, the present from what we see around us at this date, and 

 "the future" — perhaps this is a delicate way of telling us that the 

 author writes for posterity. The book is certainly ahead of the 

 present day, especially in its treatment of the past. The sentences 

 are in great part of phenomenal length, — out of all proportion to 

 the size of the book, if we may so measure them, — and this takes 

 away from the brightness which should be the most prominent 

 character of a book of this kind. Mr. Massee has done so much 

 better elsewhere, nowhere more so than in the pages of this Journal, 

 and might have done so much better in this instance, that we regret 

 to be unable to commend his little book more heartily. 



ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 



Annals of Botany (dated Nov. ; issued Dec. 23). — B. E. Fry, 

 1 Aggregations of Proteid in cells of Euphorbia splendens' (1 plate). 

 H. Solms-Laubach, 'Fructification of Bennettites* (2 plates). — 

 J. G. Baker, ■ Summary of New Ferns' (concld.). — W.B. Hemsley, 

 1 New Solomon Islands Plants ' (Canarium sapidum, Linociera sessili- 

 flora, Anodendron obi ongi folium, Hoya Cominsii, Dischidia Milnei, 

 Myristica faroensis, Grammatophylluni Cominsii Eolfe, Dendrobium 



tigrinxim Rolfe, Cominsia (n. gen. Marantearum) Ouppyi (1 plate) ). — 

 (x. Massee, ■ Hobsonia Berk. MS.' (n. gen. Tubercular iea). — Id., 

 Cordyceps Sherrhu/ii, sp.n.— H. Wager, 4 Occurrence of Diastase in 

 Pollen.' — D. H. Scott, ' Origin of Polysteiy in Dicotyledons.'— 

 E. M. Holmes & E. A. L. Batters, * Appendix to Revised List of 

 British Marine Algaa.' 



Dot. Centralblatt. (Nos. 47-51).— K. Treiber, 'Ueber den ana- 

 tomischen Bau des Stammes der Asclepiadeen ' (2 plates). 

 (No. 50). P. Kunth, « Weitere Beobachtungun liber die Anlock- 

 ungsmittel der Bliiten von Sicyos angulata & Bryonia dioica.' 



