﻿that Miss Ross or any other lady would deliberately sit down and 

 write a "cram" book. We wish to break it gently to her — it is a 

 "cram" book, and one of a bad sort. There are lots of other 

 things we might have said of it, but Miss Ross will know that we 

 refrain, in the spirit in which she should have desisted from writing 

 her book — forbearance. We should like to assure her that this is 

 not Botany, not even Cryptogamic Botany ; it is facts, not always 

 facts, but mostly so, and nothing else ; and a blind relation of facts 

 is no more interesting in Botany than the names of the patriarchs, 

 or of the Kings and Queens of England, or the dates of battles 

 strung together in a list is interesting in history. Miss Ross has 

 probably been misled by her enthusiasm as a teacher into producing 

 this book. In time, when she has learnt that one has to know a 

 very great deal more about a subject than one places in a book 

 about it, we hope her enthusiasm will not have left her, and that 

 it will then be potent for good. 



ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 

 Annals of Botany (Dec.) — J. M. Macfarlane, ' Observations on 

 Pitchered Insectivorous Plants ' (3 plates). — F. Darwin, « Growth 

 of Fruit of Cucurbita ' (2 plates). — H. Wager, ' On Nuclear Division 

 in Hymenomycetes ' (3 plates). — Gr. Massee, ' Trichospharia Sacchari' 

 (1 plate). 



Annals of Scottish Nat. Hist. (Jan.). — A. Bennett, ■ Flora of 

 E. Sutherland.' — T. D. Sadler, ' Moss-flora of Perthshire.' — J. 

 Roy, « Scottish Desmidieai' (1 plate).— J. Bennie, 'Arctic Plants in 

 the Old Lake Deposits of Scotland.' 



Bot. Centralblatt. (No. 52). — * Zur Nomenclatur-Frage.' — 

 (No. 1, 1894). F. Hock, 'Zur Anwendung der statistician 

 Methode in der Pflanzengeographie.' — F. Kolm, ' Formaldehyd 

 und seine Wirkungen auf Bacterien.' — (No. 2). A. W. Bennett, 

 ' Ueber Pringsheimia.' 



Bot. Gazette (Dec. 22). — H. L. Russell, ' Bacterial flora of 

 Atlantic Ocean in vicinity of Woods Holt, Mass.' (1 plate).— M. A. 

 Carleton, ' Studies in biology of Uredinea ' (3 plates). — A. F. 

 Foerste, ' Rootstocks penetrating the ground vertically : Notes on 

 Lryiuninvsa ' (1 plate). 



Botanical Magazine (Tokio). — (Sept. 10). R. Yatabe, Senecio 

 Syneilesis Fr. & Sav. (1 plate). 



Bot. Zeitung (Jan. 16). — M. Miyoshi, 'Ueber Chemotropisrnus 

 der Pilze.' 



Bull. Torrey Bot. Club (Dec. 26). — J. K. Small, ' Altitudinal 

 distribution of Ferns of Appalachian Mountain System.' — T. 

 Morong, ' Notes on Iridaceas, &c.'— T. H. Kearney, ' Notes on Flora 

 of South-eastern Kentucky.' — B. D. Halsted, ' Solandi Process of 

 Sun-printing.' — Id., ' Heliotropism of Mallows.' 



