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the Nippon-Shokubutsushi. Many —- are described and 
figured in these three numbers, all named by Dr. Makino :— 
Dendrobium tosarense, Liparis cornicaulis, Coty sikokiana, Sedum 
oryzifolium, 8. tricarpum, Silene Yanet, Habenaria Tinume, Pota- 
mogeton Midhikimo, P. nipponicus, Saccolabium japinlthis Dinscoren 
nipponica, Sarcanthus scolopendrifolius, Cirrhopetalum japonicu 
Our contributor Mr. G. F. Scott Eiliot, who left Haciead last 
month as botanist to the Commission for the Delimitation of the 
Anglo-French eg ith in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone, 
issued just before his departure a specimen of a Flora of Dumfries- 
shire and Din ice District, the principal aim of which is to “‘ extrac 
criticism.”” Although the poe contains only 83 pages and 
deals with plants to the end of Cruciferae, as is very full 
material for criticism, in which, however, the limits of space con- 
strain us to be brief. The principal features of novelty are to be 
found in the full descriptions of “‘ habitat,” and in the list of insect 
visitors appended to each species,—the latter an interesting new 
departure, if it can be thoroughly carried out. Other novelties 
which cannot be commended are the spelling of all specific names 
with a cap : e introduction of maddeningly un- 
intelligible ehieebspya adopted apparently no syste 
which necessitate a constant (and sometimes unsuccessful) reference 
to the table of Fo eetione Mr, Scott Elliot is able to work in so 
many folds: inaccessible Bes the British botanist that we venture 
think he would be e if he left to ps hl e limited 
opoocen ak ihe a a a of the Dumfries flor 
* Appenpix III. 1891” of the Bulletin e Mimallansova eer 
ation, printed for the a Office, is devoted to a ‘ 
a0 ns of the Royal Gar , Kew, and zo Botanical oe 
and Beldblighments = ‘iieso, and India, and the 
aoe in ene with Kew.” The “British Museum is 
omitted from the list 
Mr. C. A. Busses, nv Scholar of Christ's eos rien 
and University Demonstrator in Botany, has appoin 
Superintendent of the rianely formed Botanical Detbetndeia of the 
Leeward Islands. 
_ Tue last volume (xxix.) of the Bulletin de la Société Royale de 
Hokaniaue de Belgique aes a critical review of the 
of Acer, by A. Wesmael; a p on the influence of the nature of 
the sald in the distribution of F the mistletoe, by E. Laurent ; le - 
logical Spare ans, y E. de Wildeman; New N. America 
Mosses, b y F. Renauld and J. Cardot; Contributions to Belgian 
Mycology, by Mmes. E. Bommer and M. Rousseau ; and papers on 
Roses, by Prof. Crépin. 
e hope to begin in our next number the list of “ First Records 
of British Flowering Plants,” upon the compilation of es rac bi 
W. A, Clarke, F.L.§., has been e ngaged f for. a csemadersble 
