BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 859 
Messrs. Honegs, Fiecis & Co., of Dublin, announce as in the 
press, nee shortly to be published, with a new map, price 12s. 6d. net, 
to subscribers 10s. 6d., a Flora of the County Dublin, including the 
Flowering Plants, Higher Cryptogams, and Characez, by Nathaniel 
me ML. R.LA. ‘ The results of the writer’s personal researches 
e popular plant-names now current amongst the Du lin 
eae folk will be given in detail in a special Supplement, with 
a commentary and illustrative notes; while the historical section 
of the Introduction will sketch the course of botanical investigation 
in the county f rom m the days of Threlkeld up to the opening of the 
present century.”’ 
We have received the first part of the second series of the 
Vegetationsbilder, edited by Dr. G. Karsten and Dr. H. Schenck. 
For this part, which is oo rea cel en der Amazonasgebietes,” 
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while the plate, though giving an idea of the general habit of the 
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only a very general idea of the method of growth of the epinkle: 
The next two plates are good representations of the fern Platycertum 
andinum; a second epiphytic fern (Pcelypodium Ulei Hieron., n. sp.) 
is epiete , though not at all clearly, in Plate 3. Plate 5 shows 
one of the Cactacer, Cereus megalanthus, iapasitte from a Ficus, 
Plate 6 represents three of the so-called ant- epiphytes (a Strepto- 
calyx, an Anthurium, and a Codonanthe), plants with a berried fruit, 
the seeds of which are sown in suitable places on trees and shrubs 
by ants, which also tend the young seedlings. While commending 
the general usefulness of these photographic representations of 
Se of vegetation which are inaccessible to most students of 
otany, we must deprecate their use for starting new specific names, 
especially when unaccompanied by any deseription. 
nN Die Transpiration der Pflanzen (8vo, pp. x, 288, 24 figs. in text) 
Dr. Alfred - a aot gives a useful account of the work which has 
been done by the very numerous workers on the subject of trans- 
piration. The author has brought within eful compass results 
papers, and has also contributed some observations, hitherto un- 
published, of his own. At the end of the book is a bibliography of 
the subject, occupying wi thigh thirty pages; the gee or t is 
alphabetical, according to the authors’ names. Dr. Burgerstein’s 
book will be invaluable to itadents (price 74 marks). 
Tue Clarendon Press sends us ‘‘the Fitzpatrick Lectures for 
1903” on English Medicine in the Olden Times, by Dr. J. F, Payne— 
an interesting summary of Anglo-Saxon medical literature. For the 
no means exclusively, relied on Cockayne’s Anglo-Saxon Leechdoms, 
We note that he does not always accept Cockayne’s identifications, 
