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species in their natural surroundings are excellent ; but we fail to 

 see much value in landscapes in which the species are quite 

 indistinguishable, and studies of rock, glacier, and snow without 

 vegetation, however characteristic of the region, seem out of place 

 in a botanical work. The coloured frontispiece, in which thirteen 

 species, named on the tissue-paper fly-leaf, are represented wath 

 considerable clearness in their natural environment, is not photo- 

 graphic and is somewhat crude in colour. It would not be a 

 difficult task to reduce this valuable and original work, by 

 judicious abridgement and the omission of unnecessary illustrations 

 and much tabular matter, within the compass of a pocket Mora. 



G. S. BOULGER. 



BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, dc. 



The Transactions of the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union for 

 1911 (Goulding, Louth, 1912) contains a list by Mr. Woodruffe 

 Peacock of " additions and corrections to the Check List of Lin- 

 colnshire Plants, 1909," which was noticed in this Journal for 

 1910 (p. 166), bringing the information "up to the end of the 

 season 1911." It naturally corresponds in style with the List and 

 is therefore alphabetically arranged under genera ; the date and 

 authority for the occurrence of each species is given, and the 

 districts are indicated by numbers ; we regret, however, that the 

 Union has not published the key to these, w4iich can only be 

 ascertained, as we pointed out in our former notice, from a map 

 issued independently by another publisher. The plant w^hich 

 forms the subject of a note on p. 348 is recorded as " Papaver 

 Bhoeas L. var. Beynoldsti, mihi, 1911, Eeynolds [With yellow 

 sap.] " : it is to be regretted that new names should be published 

 exclusively in out-of-the-way periodicals. 



The Scottish Botanical Bevieio for July contains, in addition to 

 Mr. Druce's paper noticed on p. 312, a list of Caithness Lichens 

 by the Eev. D. Lilley ; a description of a new Pyrenochceta 

 (P. Ilicis from Wimbledon) by Dr. Malcolm Wilson and of a 

 new Agathosma [A. trichocarpa) by Mr. E. M. Holmes, as well 

 as other papers, none of which, save some notes on Caithness 

 seed-plants by Mr. Arthur Bennett, have any direct connection 

 with Scottish botany. 



The last issue (Sept. 24) of the Journal of the Linnean Society 

 (Botany) contains papers " On the Structure of the Palaeozoic 

 Seed Lagenostoma ovoides " by Mr. T. L. Prankerd, and " On the 

 Iternodes of Calamites " by Prof. Percy Groom. 



The first meeting of the Linnean Society will be held on 

 Nov. 7, when a paper by Dr. K. E. Gates " On Mutating 

 (Enotheras " will be read and Mr. Eidley will exhibit plants from 

 Mount Menuang Casing, Selangor. 



Mes. E. S. Gregory's monograph of the British Violets of the 

 Nominium section has been published ; we hope to notice it in an 

 early issue. 



