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THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 



Dill and Cumm, Ginger, and Turmeric and its allies. The book 

 IS intended primarily for the cultivator, and the botanical portion, 

 although sufficient for practical purposes, is naturally subordinated 

 to matters connected with the cultivation of the various plants 

 and the various insect and vegetable "pests" which affect this 

 A useful bibliography is appended to each chapter, and there are 

 a tew Illustrations, hardly as good as we should have expected to 

 find m so important a book. The volume is well printed, and forms 

 an important contribution to the Hterature of economic botany. 



The last issue (vol xi. no. 276) of the Journal of the Linman 

 Society [Botany), pubhshed on Feb. 1, contains papers on the 

 comparative anatomy of the leaves of certain New Zealand 

 species of Veronica, by E. S. Adamson, who also contributes an 

 exhaustive ecological study of a Cambridgeshire woodland ; an 

 interesting account, with illustrations, by Miss S M Baker of 

 two brown seaweeds of the salt marshes at Blakeney Point, 

 ^OTiolk—Pelvetm canaliculata, of which two new varieties are 

 described and figured, and Fucus voluhilis, with a new variety 

 and an account by Prof. Fritsch of freshwater Alg^ collected in 

 the South Orkneys by Mr. E. N. Eudmose Brown, including a 

 new genus, Scotiella. ^ 



A NOTEWOETHY addition to British Moss Hterature is The 

 Hepatics of Sussex, by Mr. W. E. Nicholson (Hastings and East 

 Sussex Naturalist, vol. i. no. 6, June 30, 1911 pp 243-292 

 6 plates). Mr. Nicholson is well known to readers of this Journal 

 tor the bryological rarities which he has discovered both here and 

 abroad. In rendering an account of the hepatics of Sussex he 

 has given us much more than a mere county list. Among the 

 one hundred and twenty-four species enumerated he includes 

 twenty-one which have been added to the British Flora since the 

 appearance of Mr. W. H. Pearson's book in 1902 ; and for most 

 ot these he has adapted diagnoses from foreign sources not easily 

 available to British botanists. The critical annotations appended 

 to some of the species are of great assistance ; and the introductory 

 sketch of the morphology, reproduction, and local distribution, 

 forms a valuable addition to a paper, the primary purpose of which 

 IS systematic.^ The excellent illustrations provided are repro- 

 duced from origmal drawings by the Eev. H. G. Jameson, and 

 represent the additions to the flora.— A. G. 



h.r f'^^^p ^^if •*!!^^^?■' -^'^^t'"^ ^'"'""2/. in course of pubhcation 

 Jj^t T ^'"f.^'^^r^^ (^°^- 1^11' P^'i^^ ^^O, is devoted to a 

 considei-ation of the Phanerogamia and Pteridophyta by Mr 

 L oyd Praeger. It is, as one might anticipate, a very thorough 

 kln^ln r ^ ?'"'" ^^ 'T\ describing the vegetation of the 

 ^land m Its various aspec s of maritime, meadowland, woodland, 

 ^of^' ft alpme, with a complete hst of the species with 

 notes on the more interesting. The influence of man upon the 

 bv hhX origin from transport by wind and water as well as 

 conoh^^r ^^^^^^^1^.^' ^ fulbibhography and excellent index 

 conclude the paper, which is illustrated by five plates and a map. 



