3y4 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
bracteolar gg in certain planes, ¢.g. in L. cerulea and L. 
naica, giving e toa false synanthy. The resulting fruit is ic 
a false os, n LL. “the erica and LL, involucrata there is no union, 
= or ee between the two flowers of the cyme 
Ar the same meeting Mr. C. B. Clarke submitted a paper, cape 
=o Carex Tolmiet Boott,” of which an abstract was rea 
D. H. Scott, See. L.8. The species was founded upon 
from the Colu mbia River, to which the author had subsequently 
added three other plants, and had combined their characters in a 
manner which has greatly puzzled North American botanist 
Mr. Clarke has redescribed the original sna and has ihéaaeibed 
two of the supposed component forms as new species 
Tue sadly inferior colouring of the later plates in - Botanical 
Magazine as contrasted with ‘the earlier issues has 
those in the December issue, especially as to Aristotelia racemosa. 
Nothing in the text ilidaeate that the flowers are alternately red 
and yellow ; and even if they were, the way in which the colour is 
applied, both to flowers and leaves, would discredit the most infantile 
colourist. The motto of the magazine—* Nature and Art to adorn 
the page combine oad i have been omitted from this number. 
Mr. H. Hesketu Pri RD has presented to the National Her- 
a 
peninsula, South Patagonia. A provisional list of these, by Dr. 
Rendle and Mr. Britten, is published by Mr. Prichard in his hand- 
some volute Through the Heart of Patagonia, recently published by 
Mr. Heinemann; a fuller account, with notes on critical and 
interesting species, will be published later in this Jour 
ux dearest pamphlet we have seen for a long a is s that by 
Dr. Rudolf Keller, « Reibungselektrische Untersuchungen an pflanz 
lichen Geschlechtsorganen’’ (Neugebauer, Pra ag). Including title- 
page and two blanks, it contains 42 pages, has no illustrations, and 
costs 5 marks ! 
** ApPE I. 1903” of the Kew Bulletin appeared last month. 
Whatever Snnelbe the Bulletin may lack, it can claim that of con- 
sistency in wrong dating. The e Appendix is merely a list of seeds 
available for exchange: no authorities are appended to the names, 
some of which are evidently merely those of garden varieties. 
Pror. G. 8. Wesr is engaged upon a text-book of British Fresh- 
Mad Alge, which will be published by the Cambridge University 
regre 
Dr. R. C. A. Prior, which took ese at his residence, Halse House 
near Taunton, on Dec. 8. A notice of him will appear in our 
issue. 
Part 8 of Mr. F, N. Williams’s Prodromus Flore Britannica 
includes ‘‘ a revision of the British Hieracia’”’; the page = the cover 
is shebeca but our copy did Pig come to hand , 
Copies may be obtained from . C. Stutter, 110, ntl 
iesiked | price 4s. 6d. post — 
