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Mr. A. G. Tansley, Prof. S. H. Vines, Mr. H. Wager. The 

 Executive Conimittee was completed by the selection of the 

 following botanists to act in conjunction with the Officers, 

 namely. Prof. J. B. Farmer, Mr. A. W. Hill, Prof. F. Keeble, 

 Prof. F. W. Oliver, Mr. A. G. Tansley, and Miss E. N. Thomas. 

 It was also decided to ask a number of eminent ladies and gentle- 

 men, either botanists, or interested in botany or allied subjects to 

 act as Patrons, namely, the Duchess of Bedford, the Duke of 

 Teck (President of the Eoyal Botanic Society), Lord Avebury, 

 Lord Ducie, Lord Eedesdale, Sir Trevor Lawrence (President of 

 the Eoyal Horticultural Society), the President of the Board 

 of Agriculture, Sir W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, Sir John Kirk, Sir 

 Herbert Maxwell, Et. Hon. Lewis Harcourt, Miss E. M. Willmott, 

 and the Hon. N. C. Eothschild. Some discussion took place as 

 to the most suitable time of year for the meeting, but no definite 

 decision was arrived at. 



Prof. Saccardo is to be congratulated on the publication of 

 the twenty-first volume, being the eighth of the supplement, of 

 his monumental Sylloge Ftcngoruvi. He calls attention in his 

 preface to the enormous number of new fungi — "factum sane 

 mirandum! " — which have been published in the less than five 

 years which have elapsed since the publication of his last volume, 

 and indicates various directions in which new volumes have been 

 planned. The present volume has xv + 928 pages and costs 

 59 francs ; it is published by the author at Padua. In common 

 with those preceding, it is admirably printed and fully indexed. 

 Mr. Alexander Trotter has collaborated with Prof. Saccardo in its 

 production. 



The Neiu Phytologist for April contains an interesting account 

 by Dr. Ostenfeld of the " floristic results " of last year's Inter- 

 national Phytogeographical Excursion, which should be read in 

 conjunction with Mr. Druce's account pubhshed in the same 

 Journal for December last, to which we made some reference on 

 p. 72. It would appear that the Nyviphcsa Candida recorded by Mr. 

 Druce on Dr. Ostenfeld's authority is, on the same authority, not 

 that plant but a new variety (occidentalis Ostenf.) of N. alba; the 

 supposed Sagina glabra Fenzl is not that species ; and the claims 

 to specific rank of Juncus bufonius var. ranarius are disallowed. 

 Other remarks in Dr. Ostenfeld's paper confirm the view which 

 we have more than once urged in these pages, that greater caution 

 and more careful observation should be exercised in the addition 

 of new names to our British plant-lists, which is sometimes 

 made with undue haste and without sufficient investigation. 



We note the appearance in sevenpenny fortnightly numbers 

 of what seems to be a pretty and useful book on Wild Floioers as 

 they Groio, the coloured plates by H. Essenhigh Corke, with de- 

 scriptive text by Mrs. Clarke Nuttall, whom the publishers, 

 Messrs. Cassell, describe as " one of our foremost botanical 

 experts." 



