240 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
in Yorkshire and Brecknock, from which the description referred to 
was drawn up, but agree rather with a more luxuriant state repre- 
sented among Dahlstedt’s exsiccate, and duly ticketed * H. crebri- 
dens."" In these Scandinavian examples, which conform exactly with 
in the s more usually met with; and the solitary 
cauline leaf subtending the ramification at its junction with the 
adophore is much der, as might be expected from the increased 
Gatium syivestre in WorcesrersHiee.—Early in June I found 
Galium sylvestre Poll., hitherto unrecorded for Worcestershire, in 
d 
the river Stour, therefore in Warwickshire. Since the publication 
. Baker and 
n re’ 
hamshire, G. C. Druce; Oxfordshire, G. L. Bruce 
MeNab; Sutherland, #. 8S. Marshail.—Frepx. TowNsEnpD. 
Sauvia verticrttata L.—A specimen of this has been sent to 
the National Herbarium from a pasture on sandy soil near Thorley, 
Bishop’s Stortford. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Harriman Alaska Expedition. Vol. V. Cryptogamic Botany. 
= : 
By 
ILLIAM TRELEASE an rs. New York. 1904. 424 pp. 
44 plates; 1 text-figure. 
In this volume is brought together all the information obtainable 
about the cryptogamic flora of Alaska, based principally upon the 
material collected by the Harriman Expedition in 1899, and worke 
up by or with the help of specialists. Prof. Trelease has written an 
introduction descriptive of the luxuriant cryptogamic flora of thedamp 
forests, prairies, etc., and of the economic uses to which certain of 
ese plants are put by the natives. The Indians of the coast prepare 
a few of the alge, especially Rhodymenia palmata, for food; and Por- 
phyra perforata, pressed into cakes and dried, is stored as a remedy 
for colds as an occasional condiment. The Russians esteem 
pli i women 
aces with charred fragments of the fungus Fomes tinctorius. One 
lichen at least, Kvernia vulpina, is used for dyeing basket-work. 
