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The Transactions of the British Mycological Society (vol. viii. 
pt. 3; Mar. 21; 10s. 6f?.) contain a paper on “ Mould Growths 
upon Cold-store Meat ” (including figures and descriptions of TVardo- 
niyces, a new genus commemorating the late Marshall Ward) by 
F. T. Brooks and C. G. Hansford ; “ Observations and Experiments 
on Cereal Busts near Cambridge,” by Karm Chand Mehta, Professor 
of Botany at Agra College; “The Literature on the Classification of 
the Hysteriales,” by G. B. Bisby ; and a notice of the late William 
Beriah Allen (1875-1922) by Carleton Bea. 
Hr. Haydon Jackson has reprinted in facsimile a little tract of 
four pages— Vegetabilium cum Animalibus Comp a ratio [1737 ], by 
Lars Boberg (1(364-1742)—which came under his notice during the 
preparation of the new Catalogue of the Linnean Society’s Library. 
“ Besides the rarity of the tract, it arrests our attention as treating 
of the comparison between animals and plants and the new sexual 
system of plant-arrangement put forward by Linnaeus ” (in the 
tig sterna Naturae, 1735), who in 1841 succeeded Boberg in the 
chair of medicine at Uppsala. 
In the Gardeners' 1 Chronicle for March 3 (p. 123) Mr. H. S. 
Thompson quotes from a letter by Hr. Petrak, of Czecho-Slovakia, who 
is engaged on a monograph of Cirsium , to the effect that the plant 
that occurs in England is certainly different from the forms that 
occur on the Continent by the structure of the scales of the involucre 
and the size and shape of the flower-heads. He proposes to name it 
sub-sp. anglicum. 
The Annuaire du Conservatoire et du Jardins du Potanique 
de Geneve, vol. xxi. (1919-22: 30 fr.) contains notes by the editor, 
I)r. Briquet, on the life and work of Auguste Schmidely (1838- 
1918) , Charles Bader (1836-1919), and Paul Chenevard (1839- 
1919) , who also contributes a paper—“ Caracteres resumes des Prin- 
cipaux Groupes de Formations vegetales ” and a note on “ Le Melan- 
ery thyme floral chez la JDaucus Carota ”; Casimir de Candolle 
writes on the Piperaceae of Formosa, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, 
Java, Borneo, Sumatra, Celebes, and Mexico, with descriptions of 
many new species; Ernest Gaumann deals with the species of Perono- 
spora affecting Nuphorbiacece and Polygonaceae ; E. Hassler gives 
a conspectus of the Lauracece, Myrsinece, Moracece, and Tlrticacece 
of Paraguay ; Hr. Hochreutiner writes on new or little-known Gutti- 
ferce and on Sterculiacece and Malvaceae ; and C. de Mereschkovsky 
contributes notes on his “ Lichenes Ticinenses exsiccati.” 
The Journal of the Arnold Arboretum (iv. no. 1 ; Jan. 1923) 
contains a reprint, with notes by Mr. Alfred Behder on “ Michaux’s 
Earliest Note on American Plants” ; this appeared in vol. i. (1792) 
of the Journal JHistoire Naturelle, edited by Lamarck and others, 
and has been generally overlooked ; only some of the new names are 
taken up in Index Kcivensis or elsewhere. Mr. E. J. Palmer writes 
on the Bed Biver Forest at Fulton, Arkansas, and Mr. E. H. Wilson 
on the Bhododendrons of Northeastern Asia ; Miss Ethelyn M. Tucker 
has an interesting account of the incunabula in the library of the 
Arboretum, to which valuable additions, including a copy of the 
Herbarium of Apuleius, have lately been made. 
