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appearance in considerable number. In the autumn, on my return, 

 the whole lower part of the plant was found badly infected with 

 Rcestelia cornuta, but the leaves which had developed above the 

 region of inoculation were scathless. The obvious conclusion is 

 that the down-wash of the spray-bottle had carried the spores to 

 the leaflets below, but that the mycelium could not grow at such a 

 rate as to infect the subsequently produced leaves at a higher level. 

 It is almost needless to add that a third young mountain asli 

 planted out in a garden-plot was entirely free from Rcestelia. The 

 results of the experiments have been deposited at the Natural 

 History Museum, South Kensington. — Geo. Brebner. 



A Heterodox Onion. — While rambling over the golf-links at 

 Felixstowe a few days ago, I came across a profusion of Allium 

 vine ale. I am familiar with this plant at Folkestone, but never 

 saw it flower, and only sometimes have I met with the head of 

 sessile bulbils which replaces the inflorescence. The specimens I 

 saw on the links attracted attention by the faded yellow colour of 

 their tips and by a slight swelling, indicative, as I thought, of the 

 inflorescence. On examining them, now that I have got home, 

 I find the stem or scape terminates in a long closed extinguisher- 

 shaped scape of a yellowish colour. On slitting this up a sort of 

 cup- shaped membranous perianth is seen, dividing at the margin 

 into irregular laeinise and lobes, but not presenting any indication 

 of regular perianth-segments. There are no stamens within this 

 cup and no pistils, but a globular head like a free central placenta, 

 covered with straight ovules developing centrifugally, those at the 

 top being the oldest. I have never seen anything like this before, 

 nor in the few books I have at present looked into do I find any 

 such condition described. On this account I send you this note, 

 thinking perhaps some of the readers of the Journal may be 

 interested, and find other specimens which will afford some rational 

 explanation of what seems at present a very heterodox onion. — 

 Maxwell T. Masters. 



Vicia hybrid a L. — Four or five specimens of this vetch have been 

 found by Miss Hue and Mr. A. Steuart, of Ventnor, in a field of saint- 

 foin, in the Undercliff of the Isle of Wight ; the field was not mown 

 last year, on account of the drought, and it is hoped that enough 

 *nay be left this year for the plant to establish itself.— Herbert D. 

 Gelbart. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



rf West Yorkshire, with a Sketch of 



LUhdogy in connection therewith. By Frederick Arnold 

 Lees, M.R.C.S., L.Ii.C.P. Loudon : Beeve, 8vo, pp. x. 843. 



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somewhat impatient expectation since the issue 01 >vesi xui*- 

 shire ' ten years since. The long delay, Mr. Lees tells us in wliat 

 he somewhat affectedly styles the "Foreword," is "due to expansion 



