Floristik, etc. — Agricultur, etc. — Chemisches, etc. 
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Plantarum, with refercnce in some cases to Hudson’s Flora An- 
glica ed. 2. The investigation has a bearing on the nomenclature 
of some ol the British species in these genera. A. ß. Rendle. 
Stapf, O., Additions to the Florula Marmarica. (Bull. Mise. 
Inform. Roy. Bot. Gards. Kew. No. 9. p. 365—369. 1907.) 
This contains an enumeration of plants collected by Dr. W. F. 
Hume and Dr. John Ball in the neighbourhood of Mirsa Matruk 
in the Marmarica (the littoral of northwestern Egypt) and not 
recorded from the district in Schwein fürth and Ascherson's 
Primitiae Florae Marmaricae (Bull. Herb. Boissier, vol. I, 1893.) 
Among them there is a new species, Anthemis Ballii , allied to 
A. microSperma, Boiss. and Kotschy, and two new varieties, namely 
Roenieria dodecandra , var. laevis and Bromus scoparins , var. stenantha. 
Author’s notice. 
Ryan, H., Reports upon the Irish Peat .Industries. Part I. 
(Economic Proceed. Roy. Dublin Society. Voi. I. P. 10. p. 341—420. 
3 plates. 1907.) 
This paper contributes little to the botanical aspect of peat, and 
in dealing with the formation and composition, as well as in his 
Classification of peat deposits, the author has not utilised the existing 
botanical literature in any marked degree. Drainage and reclamation 
of peat bogs is reviewed mainly from the historical side as carried 
out in Ireland, and only a brief reference is made to recent work 
of a similar kind in Sweden, North Germany, Bavaria, etc. At 
considerable length the author has described the utilisation of peat 
fibre in the form of moss litter and as a medium for the manufacture 
of paper, turf wool, etc., the illustrations being mainly various 
machines used in these processes. W. G. Smith. 
Holmes, E. M., Note on the Origanum of Cyprus. (Pharm. 
Journ. Vol. 79. p. 378. 1907.) 
Specimens of Origanum from Cyprus are identified as 
O. Majoranoides Willd. a perennial plant very similar in character 
to O. Majorana Linn. and annual in this country. A summary is 
given of the Origanums employed in Smyrna as sources of essential 
oil. The Cyprus oil contains a very high percentage 82.5 of carvacrol. 
Photographie reproductions of dried specimens accompany the paper. 
W. G. Freeman. 
Hooper, D., The fats of Indian Nutmegs. (Agricultural Ledger 
No. 3. 1907. p. 17—24.) 
The seeds of Myristica canaria, Bedd., are used locally in India 
for making candles; and those of M. malabarica , Lam., are 
offered as a Substitute for true nutmegs, while the aril is sold for 
mace. The kerneis and the mace of both M. malabarica , and the 
true nutmeg M. fragrans contain much oil, ehiefly myristic. But 
whereas the mace of M. fragrans contains a considerable quantitv 
of essential oil and little fat, that of M. malabarica contains much 
fat and only very little essential oil. 
Analyses of the seeds and maces, and determinations of the 
constants of the oils are recorded. J. H. Burkill. 
