BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 95 
These come partly from Limpricht’s Laubmoose (Band iv. of 
Rabenhorst’s Kryptogamen- Flora), a Sica from Bruch & 
Schimper’s Bryologia Europaa. They show an enlarged scale 
those parts of a moss which, owing ‘6 their. minutaneaa, tend to 
escape notice. In genera where the natural habit is very marked, 
a representation of the capsule and its parts is alone given; but in 
most cases the portion of the stem which bears the capsule is also 
figured. 
WE have received the numbers for October to December last of 
Innguages. Dr. Yatabe explains that, owing 3 Ba delay which 
lace in receiving answers from the European and 
Amareee” botanist ts he has consulted, he has ania to publish 
c 
Kuropean specialists.” In the October number Primula nipponica 
d Leptedermis pulchella, in heeds Primula tosaensis, and in 
December Kirengeshoma palmata,—the last the type of a new genus 
of Saxifragacee,—are figured and described as new by Dr. Yatabe. 
The varied contents of the magazine and the lesa number o 
contributors speak well for the progress of Botany in Japan. 
Tue Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, 1890, issued in con- 
nection with the Royal Gardens, Kew, is an 8vo volume of 
352 5 ar dae ‘published by the Stationery Office at the low cost of 
2s. ** Miscellaneous”’ the info Te ws samigg wd is, but much 
of it is of interest and importance. ong the papers is Dr. 
liver’s ‘‘ Report on Obsevaiions "wads on the Weather 
Plant” (Abrus precatorius): for the most part, however, they are 
connected with economic botany. as ‘of the three Appendixes is 
devoted t ist of the plants which matured seed in Kew Gardens 
889; a second list has just been issued as an Appendix for 
1891, which i is also stated to be for 1889: is not 1890 intended ? 
Tue Bulletin for January last is mainly devoted to a oe 
animated correspondence on the “ production of seed a al 
variation in the Sugar-cane.” Prof. Harrison, of the Gove 
justification for his complain int. vetiinhatea that the 
investigations of Dr. Fressanges, which we printed in this Journal 
for 303), were aes referred to by Mr. Morris in his paper— 
IT1S 
a matter which, as we learn, has caused some unpleasant feeling in 
Mauritius; and Timehri, for June last, wonders ‘when justice will 
be done to the work of the colonial in meget? Those intere 
