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briyantiaca , sp. n.,” by H. Heim; the conclusion of R. Soueges’s 
“ Reeherches sur l’embryogenie cles Solanacees” ; “ Quelques plantes 
alimentaires prehistoriques de Provence,” by J. Gattefosse; on 
Pseudovossia, b} r A. Camus; and an interesting “ Historique de 
l’ecole analytique,” by M. Gandoger, to which we may return. 
Mr. J. S. Gamble’s Flora of the Presidency of Madras con¬ 
tinues to make steady progress ; part v (Adlard & Son, 10s. net) in¬ 
cludes the orders from Fbenacece to the middle of Scropliulariaceee, and 
extends to two hundred pages. As we have remarked when noticing 
previous parts, the work is well printed, in small but very clear type, 
and is convenient in size for the pocket ; we think, however, that the 
volume, which already extends to 962 pages, will when completed be 
somewhat inconvenient to handle. 
We are glad to note that Mr. John Isaac Briquet, who succeeded 
Emile Burnat as Director of the Conservatoire and Botanical Garden 
of Geneva, has been elected a Foreign Member of the Linnean Society. 
M. Briquet’s work in connexion with the bora of the Maritime Alps, 
extending over nearly forty years, constitutes only one of his claims 
to this recognition. 
At a representative meeting of botanists held at the Linnean 
Society’s rooms on Friday, March 2, it was decided to hold a Con¬ 
ference of British and Overseas botanists next year about the begin¬ 
ning of July. An executive Committee was appointed with Sir David 
Brain as Chairman, Mr. F. T. Brooks as Hon. Secretary, and Dr. A. 
B. Rendle as Treasurer. An invitation to attend the Conference will 
be sent at once to Overseas botanists. 
The Kew Bulletin (Feb.) contains a monograph of the British 
species of Cytospora , alphabetically arranged, by W. B. Grove 
( C . Lonicerce , sp. n.; C. stictosoma, described in this Journal for 
1916 (p. 190) is now referred to Phomopsis ). There are biographies 
of Isaac Bay ley Balfour and Henry John Elwes, the latter from the 
Gardeners ’ Chronicle, and a list of donations to the Gardens, 
Museum, and Herbarium during 1922. 
The whole of the eight papers in the last number of Annales 
Mycologici (xxi. nos. 1 & 2, 1923) are concerned with systematic 
mycology. The usual number of new genera are proposed, some of 
which seem rather thin. Fautrey has now met a similar fate to that 
of Hennings, who, in the words of Magnus, died twice—the first time 
naturally, the second murdered by von Hoehnel. Fautrey in various 
papers (1889-1899) described a number of new species, and Keissler 
herein publishes a revision of these ; five out of forty are allowed to 
stand. Presumably about the same proportion of the thousand or so 
new genera which have been “made” during the last ten years will 
meet with like revision.—J. R. 
The Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (February) contains 
a continuation of Dr. Rydberg’s notes on Rosacese, in which the con¬ 
fusion relating to Lindley’s Posa Woodsii is referred to but hardly 
cleared up; J. 11. Schaffner writes on “Sex Reversal in the Japanese 
