954 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Tue fourth volume of M. Eugéne Rolland’s Flore Populaire 
continues the work on the lines described in previous notices (see 
Journ. Bot. 1897, 865; 1900, 197; 1901, 146), with the important 
restriction that in this and in future volumes, ‘* Nous ne nous 
bi ag plus que des pays de langue gallo-romane.” This 
seem us a wise limitation, which we could wish had been 
pay from the beginning of the work. "The present instalment 
is mainly occupied with the | Pai peal the walnut, to whic 
forty-four pages are devoted, follows the Rhamnacee. The exhaus- 
tive character of the undertaking i is on maintained. 
Messrs. Duckworts have brought out a second edition of Mr. 
Masten’ s “Text. book of Plant Diseases (price 5s. net). It is apparently 
ary agi from the first edition, which was reviewed in this Journal 
n its appearance in 1899, except by the (p. 862) addition of an 
eh ndix of thirteen pages, dealing with “several very destructive 
diseases [which] have either <epauvad for the first time or have 
developed and extended to an alarming extent during the interval” 
since the first edition was published. The text being thus unaltered, 
there is nothing more to say about it, except to suggest that in any 
future issue some of the suggestions made i in the review referred to by 
Mr. Worthington Smith—himself no mean authority on the subject 
—should receive the consideration to which they seem entitled. 
Tue third part of Dr. Theodore Cooke’s Flora of the Pr —— 
of ete brings the enumeration down to the end of Rubiacee 
and com ple tes ‘the first volume. "We see that the trivial name 
cor eas ea is retained for the species of Knoxia to which stricta was 
applied nine years earlier o vise nea the note on to this i in the 
ertner’s stricta. sectiisy” nalysis w go aS ‘ex “ herbario 
Banksiano,’ probably from the specimens in sys stion.”’ 
Messrs. Meraven announce for publication an exact reprint 
of Parkinson’s Paradisus Terrestris. A thousand copies will be 
printed ; the published price will be 80s. net. The Paradisus is & 
delightful book, whether viewed from the standpoint of horticulture 
or literature, aut we imagine there will be no difficulty in dis- 
posing of the cop’ 
Ar the car of the Linnean Society on the 4th June, 1903, 
Mr. R. Morton Middleton exhibited a ro letter from Linneus 
to Philip aon dated Upsala, 3 August, 1763, and read a trans- 
lation of the same. Mr. F. N. Willizeae showed a series of 
in 
100 drawings of British Composite, 20 being Hieracia, drawn 
pen-and-ink by Mr. E. W. Hunnybun, of Huntingdon, ‘an accom- 
lished artist and — field-botanist. Mr. George Massee 
read a paper entitled + Sta’ tow the Transition ‘of Se same Leaves 
