B20 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Tue Abbé Boulay’s long promised work on the aa ee 
(Museinées de la France. 11. Hépatiques. sy: 190 
224, 15) forms a companion vols to that on the -.. aera 
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possible; also a synoptical table of the families, genera, and species. 
He then describes the species systematically, adding critical — 
and descriptions of foreign species which occur in neighbouring 
countties: The book will. oy tiene prove as helpful to Gisdents as 
the volume on mosses has bee A.-G. 
We note that the price of — fen remaining copies of Messrs. 
Methuen’s admirable reprint of Parkinson’s Paradisus has on 
raised to three guineas, which will shortly be increased to fou 
Tae Pharmaceutical Journal for Aug. 13 contains an seiele on 
the cultivation and collection for pharmaceutical purposes a 
sharers in Derbyshire by Mr. F. A. Upsher Smith. ‘Som 
nths ago,” says the writer, ‘*‘ Mr. E. M.-Holm es suggested to 
me rane desirability of ascertaining whether the Derbyshire drug 
was the product: of V. sambucifolia Mikau [Mi ea) lee of atin 
V. Mikauii [Mikanii] Syme. For some time I have, 
with Dr. Dubble, ol tinea the mate and we eee eel, E 
publish our views. At present we may say in regard to this 
dificult problem that the balance of evidence in our possession 
s to V. Mikauit Syme as the source.’ 
ue Enumeration of Chinese Plants which has been publishing 
le 1886 in the Journal of the Linnean Society has been brought to 
a close with Dr. Rendle’s monograph of the oe in which we 
notice a large number of new species, many from the collections 
sent to the National Herbarium by Father Hugh Scania from 
North “Gaiteal China. An appendix of ‘‘Gen species dis- 
covered in China since the publication of the various . pare of the 
Enumeration, from 1886 to 1904” begins somewhat oddly eri a 
Franchet, which appears in the body of the work. Another Hance 
plant—Aganosma Editha, pubkahed in 1866—is equally to be ex- 
eluded, as it is quoted as a synonym under Cryptolepis eleyans on 
0 of the second volume of the work. The list of additions 
promises to hy extensive, as the six pages now issued only go as 
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