158 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
logical and phylogenetic details—e. g. the curious dicecism of Macro- 
mitrium, the water-sacs of Cyathophorum taitense, the ‘racaangg of 
emme in an inflorescence or at the foot of a sporogonium, the 
emission of Phieoids from a seta—and he discovered a sporogonium 
of the protonematoid Mphemeropsis. He is so convinced of the great 
systematic importance of the characters of the capsule, and espe- 
cially of its peristome, that he makes these the makes of his 
classification, and attaches far less value to such vegetative cha- 
racters as the acrocarpic or pleurocarpic position of the inflorescence, 
the distichous or spiral arrangement of the apne? a areolation of 
the leaves, ete. The work is entirely i in Germ rst volume 
contains the Sphaynales and the Haplolepites, with descinora of 
194 species, many of which are ne The figures, though mere 
line-process blocks, are wonderfully ‘rhe to nature. As Gee 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ée. 
Ar the meeting of the Linnean Society on April 7th, after the 
reading of the Minutes of the previous meeting, Mr. George Murray 
moved that the portion dealing with the election of an a be 
=i aie on the ground that, the President a given a ruling on 
Febru ary 18th, which had been endorsed by th > Feliaw’ at the next 
i ti 
after ion 
the Minutes as a whole were put to the meeting and rejected. Mr. 
F. Enock then gave an exhibition of natural-colour photography of 
esr insects and flowers, showing a large series of yews slides, 
any of which were sata life. like. Mr. C. E. Jones read a 
he morphology and anatomy of the stem of the genus 
Lycopodium, and dchinnss nied by aid ‘of lantern-slides the com- 
parative — of the stele in a Tak of species and forms. 
At the ting on April 21st, after the approval of the Minutes 
of the eerie meeting g, the President read an opinion received 
from Sir Edward Fry, whieh stated that the action of the officials in 
connection with the recent declared election of an Associate was 
merely irregular, not illegal. This opinion was contested by Mr. 
Henry Groves, but the legal authority carried the greater weight, and 
on the Minutes of the meeting of March 17th being — put, they 
were carried. The President — delivered an Address, and the 
Treasurer made a few crude remarks; after which the wher! 
= was resumed. Mr. clotaout ste showed an excel 
of drawings, by Mrs. Reid, of a number of ila 
fruit and seeds a British preglacial oa meepolacial plants; and 
oreton Middleton made some remarks on a holograph letter 
foutn Linneus to Haller. 
Tue Cambridge University Press has issued a second edition, 
revised and rearranged i in one volume (pp. xii, 670; price 10s. 64d.), 
of the Manual and Dictionary of Flowering Plans and Fer ns, by Mr. 
J.C. Willis. When the first edition appeared in 1897, we expressed 
