414 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
sedan sare pe ae by Dr. G. Karsren and Dr. H. Scnenck. 
Parts III. to V. 4to. tt. 18-80 with text. Jena: Fischer. 
1908. Subseipion price 2 M. 50 Pf. each part; single 
parts 4 Mar 
is maintained in the three parts of an - “lgnt pie ctures”’ now 
before us. The third, for which Dr. Schenck is respo wre is 
entitled ‘Tropical Economie Plants,” and includes photos of a 
Java tea-plantation, a tree of Phosbeisen Cacao in ripe fruit, habit 
and flower and fruit of Coffea liberica, a fruiting branch of Myri- 
stica fragrans, and a tree of Carica Papaya. The plates in part 4, 
by Dr. Karsten, depict the luxuriant vegetation of the tropical and 
subtropical Mexican forests. The subjects are apparently well 
chosen, and give an excellent idea of the rank growth in a damp 
tropical forest, and a vivid picture of the fierce struggle for exist- 
ence which has for its result the occupation of every available place 
and the elaboration of the climbing and epiphyte type of plant-life. 
Part y Dr. A. S rege illustrates a very different kind of 
vegetation, that of the h t dry region in South-west Africa, where 
s the home of W stuitiachile photo of which is the subject of plate 
95. It is not beautiful, but, like the giant Sumatran Rafflesia, it is 
a thing which one would much like to have discovered. This part 
also includes what seems a good figure of Aloé dichotoma, and also 
pictures of Acacia, — and other characteristic hot, dry 
country types of vegetatio 
The Vegetationsbilder inal be of interest to ne botanist, and 
a a great help to him who has to teach the scien If we cannot 
these things ourselves, the next best is to nates oie “3 a well- 
sre and well-executed series of plates. a 
A. B. RB. 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, de. 
M. Emme Gapveceav publishes, in Mém. Soe. Nat. Hist. Cher- 
basi XXXxiii, ‘Ohemeneet 1903], pp. 177-368, an important essay 
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Loire, and forms a favourite steamboat excursion from Nantes 
e island is a wind-swept plateau, a feet above sea-level, 
of non-fossiliferous schists, with a narrow coastal m argin ; the 
numerous narrow valleys opening on te coast occupy on a small 
see of its spe The Saepeens which a few om ot years ago 
n. wall. There grow in Belle-ile Ulex 
ciliaris, and EF. vagans, Adiantum Capillus-Veneris, 
