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and largely to his generosity, that the regrettable suspension of that 
publication, due to the exigencies of the times, was removed, and that 
its publication has been resumed. Elwes’s most important work was 
of course that undertaken in conjunction with Dr. Augustine Henry, 
The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, published by subscription 
in 190G-13. He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1874, 
and in 1897 was elected a Fellow of the Koval Society. 
The Journal of Ecology for November contains “Notes on the 
Forest Communities of the Garliwal Himalaya,” bv A. E. Osmaston, 
with 9 plates ; “ Early Stages of Redevelopment of Woody Vegetation 
in Chalk Grassland (Studies of the Vegetation of the English Chalk),” 
by A. G. Tansley (1 plate) ; “ Studies of the Somerset Turf Moors,” 
by M. M. Barker and C. M. Gibson ” ; “A New Method for the 
Analysis of Riant Communities,” by O. Arrhenius ; “ The Distribu¬ 
tion of Primula elatior in Britain,” b\ r Miller Christy; “The Suf- 
frutescent Habit as an Adaptation to Environment,” by ,1. Burtt- 
Davy; “The Terrestrial Algae,” by F. E. Fritsch ; and a list of 
Lichens noted on Chesil Beach, Dorset bv Dr. Watson during the 
excursion of the Ecological Society in August. Mr. Christy’s paper 
is accompanied by an excellent map showing the distribution of P. 
elatior in Britain, and contains a note on the Suffolk popular name 
“ Five-fingers,” which may be worth reproducing :—“ It seems at 
first particularly inappropriate, for the flowers bear no soil of resem¬ 
blance to fingers of the human hand when these are held fully ex¬ 
tended and spread, as one usually thinks of them. If, however, the 
forearm be held upright and the hand bent over sharply at the wrist, 
with the fingers relaxed and slightly spread, the resemblance of the 
umbel of the Oxlip, with its characteristic droop, to the human hand 
becomes strikingly obvious.” 
The Annals of Botany for October contains the following :— 
“ The Gametophyte and Embryo of Botrychium simplex ,” by D. H. 
Campbell (1 pi.) ; “Growth and Abscission in Sea Island Cotton,” 
by T. G. Mason; “A ‘Volumometer’ Method of measuring the 
Growth of Roots,” by J. H. Priestley and VV. H. Pearsall; “On the 
Organization of Growth and Differentiation in the Stem of the 
Sunflower,” by D. T hod ay (1 pi.) ; “On the Course of Absorption 
and the Position of Equilibrium in the Intake of Dyes by Discs of 
Plant Tissue,” bv G. M. Redfern ; “The Significance of the ‘Foliar 
Ray’ in the Evolution of Herbaceous Angiosperms” (2 pis.), by E. 
W. Sinnott and L. W. Bailey; “Spermatogenesis in Asterella Itemi- 
sphcericaf by W. L. Woodburn (1 pi.); “Some Types of Endo- 
lithic Limestone Lichens” (1 pi.), by E. J. Fry; “On the Influence 
of Immersion in certain Electrolytes upon Cells of Saxifraya um- 
brosaf by M. Williams. One wonders whether, with a view to con¬ 
venience of reference, it would not be possible to shorten the titles of 
some of the papers that appear in the Annals. 
The Daily Graphic (Dec. 13) has been letting itself go on the 
Cvpripediums at the R. H. S. show on Dec. 12 : “ One cypripedium 
had a curious dorsal sepal with dark red spots, which gave it the 
effect of a bird’s egg. The flower’s parents, Beryl and Eurybiades, 
