BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 68 
We understand that the forthcoming number of the cant sid 
Botany will witness a new departure. “Considerable pro 
will be given to systematic wo. and in other ways ag pp 
by Mr. J. e 
1887 ; ; and ‘the Bibiogaphy for 1889, which was to have been 
issued ‘‘early in 1890,” has not yet appeared. -In the number just 
issued, Mr. Dyer’s name is added to the list of editors, and Messrs. - 
Holmes and Batters give an enumeration of the British Marine 
Algsz, which we propose to notice next month. As the editors 
or communications referring to British Poa, The pias 
although dated ‘December, 1890,” did not appear until January 
Tue Archives des Sciences physiques et naturelles de la Société 
nies a publishes in its part for November last short diagnoses of 
new species of a hae collected by Balansa in Paraguay. 
These are from the pen of M. Chodat, who has prepared a revision 
of the group for M. Micheli’s Contributions a la flore du Paraguay. 
THe Gardeners’ Chronicle has completed its fiftieth year, and the 
number for Jan. 3 is mainly devoted to reflections, reminiscences, 
and retrospections appropriate to this event. 
Tue Botanical Magazine for Jaunary is mainly devoted to an 
account by Sir Joseph Hooker of Ample Titanum—the 
gigantic aroid whe ae so much excitement when it flowered 
at Kew in 1889. The description is illustrated by three plates by 
Miss Smith, “who,” says Mr. Watson (who has contributed an 
interesting account of the growth of the plant), ‘‘in her efforts to 
do justice by her pencil to” this plant and ai Jace bdipai de 
‘* suffered in each case a prolonged martyrdom that term 
illness in the case of the orchid.” We congratulate Miss Smith on 
having escaped the fatal termination which usually succeeds ‘‘a 
prolonged vaio 
THE post e Kew Herbarium vacated by Mr. Hemsley on 
his promotion ae bey filled by the ns Beata of Dr. Sta 
of Vienna. Dr. Stapf will, we have no doubt, prove a valuable 
addition to the Kew staff, but we may ae pardoned for regretting 
that no English botanist could be = for the position. 
MI. A. Francuet publishes the part of a Monograph of 
Chrysosplenium in the Nouvelles Archives (3rd Series, vol. ii. pt. 1). 
The genus comprises fifty-four species, of which those of the 
Alternifolia section, nineteen in number, are described in this 
