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THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
unattractive and depressing* form, and it is a matter for regret that 
a book of this type should apparently be extensively used. As a 
glossary of terms, illustrated by a number of clear diagrammatic 
sketches, it has a certain use, but that is the best that vve can say 
of it. The chief alteration in the present edition is the addition of' 
a chapter on “ Evolution and Genetics ” in the form of a supple¬ 
ment.—A. B. It. 
The Kew Bulletin (no. 3) contains besides Mr. Hutchinson’s 
paper on Primula calciphila , referred to on p. 171, the first part of 
an account of the Flora of Sinaloa—a State on the Pacific littoral 
of Northern Mexico—bv Mr. L. A. M. Biley, containing new species ; 
and a continuation of “ Decades Kevvensis ” ; and a list of “ Additions 
to the Index Kewensis" 1 containing the names published by E. H. L. 
Krause in the second edition of Sturm’s Flora von Deutschland. 
The Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany, xlvi, no. 308 ; 
April 25) contains “ A Preliminary Paper on the Cuticular Structure 
of certain Dicotyledonous and Coniferous Leaves from the Middle 
Eocene Flora of Bournemouth,” by Helena Bandulska (2 plates) ; 
and “ A Critical Bevision of the British Species of Polysiphoniaf 
by Dr. Lily Batten (4 plates) : a new species (P. spiralis) from 
Swanage is described and figured. 
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The Bulletin of the Torrey Club for April contains the descrip¬ 
tion (with plate) by Mr. H. A. Gleason, of IVindsorina , anew genus 
of Rapateacece from British Guiana : “ since Scliomburgk named a 
genus, Saxo-Fredericia , and a species, Papatea Friderici- Augusti , 
in honour of a contemporary German ruler, the name IVindsorina is 
given in commemoration of the House of Windsor of Great Britain.” 
Under the title Les Filicinees du Quebec , Fr. Marie-Victorin 
publishes in the Contributions du Laboratoire de Botanique of 
Montreal (no. 2 ; Montreal, 1923) what is evidently a careful and 
comprehensive description of the ferns of that region. 
Part 3 of the Botanical Magazine (issued May 3) includes 
descriptions of a new Isotrema (/. chrysops Stapf) from China and 
a new Rhododendron from the same country, named B. cantabile by 
the late I. B. Balfour “ in reference to its charming flowers which are 
i worth to be sung.’ ” 
Mr. Arthur E. Wade, Department of Botany, National Museum 
of Wales, Cardiff, is collecting material for a Flora of Monmouth¬ 
shire, and will be glad to receive help. 
Mr. C. Y. B. Marquand, the son of the late E. D. Marquand 
(1848-1918), has been appointed to an assistantsliip in the Kew 
Herbarium. 
We regret to record the deaths of our valued contributor William 
Henry Pearson, which occurred on April 19 at his residence at 
Withington, Manchester; of Frederic Newton Williams, who 
died at Isleworth on May 6; and of William Barclay, who died 
at Perth on May 10: notices of their life and work will appear later. 
