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does not reach us for notice, but in the interests of British botany it 
seems desirable to call attention to the more interesting of its contents. 
These include a paper on “ Centaureci Scabiosa L., varieties and a 
hybrid,” by C. G. Britton ; “ Some new English species of Taraxa¬ 
cum ” by H. Dahlstedt; an account of the herbaria of Ulisse Aldro- 
vandi (1522-1605) and Gherardo Cibo (1512-1600) compiled by the 
editor; “Variations in Vegetation,” by Donald Patton; and a note 
wherein Professor Almquist summons “ all friends of the flora to 
observe the wild allogams in Nature,” which concludes with a reference 
to his paper “in another place”—the reference to this Journal for 
1922 (292-296) might have been added. There are numerous notes 
on plants and publications, and obituaries of botanists and others, 
mostly by the editor, which contain much autobiographical informa¬ 
tion—as, indeed, does the rest of the Beport. The Report of the 
Exchange Club, issued separately, is edited by Mr. Lester-Gar¬ 
land. 
Prof. K. Er. y. Tubetjf has published in a handsome volume a 
Monographic die Mistel (Munich, Oldenbourg), in which the history 
of Viscum album is fully treated from every point of view. The 
first 350 pages are concerned with prehistoric finds, with the folk-lore 
and popular names of the Mistletoe and with its distribution in 
Europe; these are followed by a discussion at equal length of its 
morphology, anatomy, physiology, biology, and pathology, concluding 
with chapters on the varieties and races, culture, and kindred subjects. 
The volume, which is lavishly illustrated with, plates, maps, and 
figures in the text, is beautifully printed and in every way attrac¬ 
tive. 
The Journal of the Ministry of Agriculture for May contains 
an account by Mr. G. H. Garrad of the endeavours, to some extent 
successful, which have been made to control the spread of Lepi- 
dium Draba , which “ has done an enormous amount of damage 
in Thanet and North Kent during the last few years, and is gradually 
spreading from East Kent and East Essex westwards.” The plant, 
Mr. Garrad tells us, “ is known in Essex and Kent under the names 
of Whitlow Pepperwort, White Weed, Chalk Weed, Thanet Weed, 
Devil’s Cabbage, Hoary Pepperwort, or Hoary Cress.” 
Part 58 of Mr. Maiden’s Critical Revision of Eucalyptus con¬ 
tains figures and descriptions of six hitherto undescribed species, one 
of which bears the curious name of E. Comitce-Vallis —apparently 
intended as a translation of the locality (Comet Vale) in which the 
tree occurs. 
The New Ehytologist (xxii. no. 2; May 19) contains “ An 
Example of Leaf-enation in Allium ursinumf by S. L. Ghose; 
“ The Toxonomy and Variation of Microcystis in Ceylon,” by W. B. 
Crow (1 pi.) ; “ Tetraedroides spetsbergensis, gen. & sp. n., a neAV 
Alga from Spitzbergen,” by B. M. Griffiths (1 pi.) ; and a continua¬ 
tion of Walter Stiles’s paper on “ Permeability.” 
