REfORT for 1909. 
4^3 
Folia longa angusta canaliculata. Spiculae foem. cylindricae 
ciassae sub-approximatae. Utriculi magis nervosi evidenter stipa- 
tati. Altnaharra, Sutherland, E. S. Marshall. Also from Toome 
Lridge, Antrim. Var. sfenocarpa, Kiikenth. : ‘ Spiculae angustatae 
saepe breves nigricantes. Squamae foem. saepe acutiusculae. 
Utriculi oblongo-elliptici.’ Glen Fiagh, Bruce, Thurso, Tay side, 
Perth, Llanberris, Carnarvon. Carcx helvola, Blytt (as a hybrid), is 
given from Ben Lawers and Loch Na Gar, Bruce, Clova Balfour, 
and the hybrid C. canescens x steliulata ^ C. biharica from 
Lawers and Canlochan. x C. tefrastachya = C. helvola, Blytt, var. 
— Druce, ‘ Rep. of Exc. Club,’ p. 571, 1897, from Lawers. 
Four Carices, C. ligerica, C. brizoides, C. caespitosa, and C. 
elytroides, which have been reported as British, are not given for 
Britain in the Monograph. The second from Yorkshire may have 
been introduced. 
The heartiest thanks of all British Botanists are due to the 
author for this very valuable and important volume. 
The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, by H. J. 
Elwes, F.R.S., and A. Henry, M.A. Volume IV., Edinburgh, 1909, 
pp. viii., 713 — 1000, tt. 63. The British trees included in this 
volume are Castanea saliva. Mill., which the authors think was 
introduced by the Romans, although natural seedlings occur, and 
the tree is naturalised in Devon, &c. ; Fraxinus excelsior, L., with 
its variety inonophylla, Kuntze, the older name of which is var. 
diversifolia, Alton. ; Ahius glutinosa, as it is wrongly called, with 
its varieties laciniata, Willd., and incisa, Willd. ; Betula pubescens, 
Ehrh., and its var. denudata, Gren. & Godr., the hybrid with the 
next species x B. hybrida, Bechst., and B. verrucosa Ehrh., an 
older name of which is B. pendula, Roth, but for which B. alba, L., 
is retained in the List. The plates as usual are interesting. 
Prodromus Florae Britannicae, by F. N. Williams. Part 
V., pp. 207 — 258, Brentford, C. Stutter, March, 1909. Price 2s. 8 d. 
This instalment gives an account and description of 59 species. 
Galium aspcruui, Schreber, is the name given to the southern form 
of G. sy Ives Ire, Poll. G. austriacum, Jacq., supersedes G. umbel- 
latum, Lam., or sylvestre. Poll. Myosotis palustris, Hill, var. 
caespititia DC., is said to be an earlier name than hirsuta, Braun. 
Part VI , October, 1909, pp. 259 — 362. Price 55., post free. 
