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since many of the figures are drawn from sources not easily acces- 
sible to most students. Some of the best are those that iliustrate 
the structure of the cystocarp. These are in differential colours, 
and are taken from the author’s paper on the development of the 
cle. 
Apart from what are really but minor faults, Prof. Oltmann’s 
book is by far the finest and most thorough piece of algological 
ust have entailed enormou ; 
valuable digest, indispensable to all students of Botany. - 
E. S. Gepp. 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ée. 
Ar the meeting of the Linnean Society on November 3rd, the 
Resolution of Council of June 2nd, ‘* That the existing Bye-Laws of 
the Society be, and they are hereby, repealed, and that the following 
Bve-Laws be established in lieu thereof,” was then introduced ; the 
President, Prof. Herdman, explaining that under the Charters it was 
incumbent on the Council to present all new or changed Bye-Laws 
to the vote of the Fellows by ballot, after being twice read from the 
Chair; consequently no modification could take effect unless it 
be confirmed by a large majority Mr. G. race showed pea 
mens of a new British grass, Koeleria valesiaca Gaud., which he ha 
in the original locality at Brent Down, Somersetshire. The Rev. 
John Gerard, $.J., brought specimens of Plantago major, showing 
paniculate prolification of the inflorescence, from the neighbourhood 
plant in Lobel and Pena's Adversaria and Dodoens’s Pemptades, 
which latter block reappeared in Lobel’s Observationes and Icones and 
