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tinues his notes on Italian Hepaticse ; R. Pampanini has a long paper 
(with figures) on Artemisia Verlotorum Lamotte; and E. Mussa 
writes on the flora of the district known as “ 11 Po Morto,” with 
especial reference to the occurrence there of Hippuris vulgaris. 
Numbers 6-8 (June-August) of Osterreichische Botanische 
Zeitschrift include “ Bliitenstande als Vogelbumen,” by 0. Pursch 
(3 pi.): “ Homogyne and Adenostyles ” (1 pi.); Aristolocliia 
grandifloraf by H. Cammerleher (3 pi.); H. Bandel-Mazzetti has 
a supplement to his monograph of Taraxacum. Nos. 9-10 for Sept.- 
Oct. (it is not often that periodicals are antedated !) contain con¬ 
tinuations of papers on the Floras of Steiermark (K. Fritzch) and 
Obersteiermark (K. Reichinger) ; a paper on Roumanian and Bul¬ 
garian Fraxinus , by A. Lingelsheim ; and a useful bibliography from 
January. 
The Bulletin de la Soc. Bot. de France (lxii. nos. 3, 4 ; 4 June) 
contains the following among other papers : “ Sur l’insertion fusoriale 
des chromosomes somatiques,” with especial reference to Crepis 
virens, by R. de Litardiere, who also revises the group of Festuca 
ovina subsp. alp in a ; a continuation of P. Guerin’s paper on the cells 
of Urticacece ; the conclusion of E. Maniac and A. Reynier’s “ Con¬ 
tributions a la flore du Var”; “Formation des pigments antho- 
cyaniques,” by R. Combes ; Euphorbiacees nouvelles ( Aporosa and 
Baccaurea) by F. Gagnepain ; “Sur la zone halophile en Provence,” 
by J. Arenes; “ Cladomanie et castration parasitaire de Beseda 
lutea by S. Buchet; a new form (var. nummular ice folia) of Vinca 
minor , by P. Fournier : the useful “Revue Bibliographique ” occupies 
80 pages. 
The Orchid Review for August contains a continuation of an 
(unsigned) paper on “ The Segments of Orchid Flowers ” ; two of the 
species noticed— Bulbopliyllum barbigerum and .Masdevallia mus- 
cosa —have inspired Miss (?) J. H. A. Hicks to burst into song:—- 
“ Why,” it is asked of the latter— 
“ Why is thy lip a tremble ? 
Host \_sic~\ thy heart fear the crude 
Intrusion of my footfall 
On thy mossed solitude ? ” 
The preceding article supplies the answer to this and similar queries 
by the prosaic statement that the object of the sensitive lip is to 
keep “ prisoner for some twenty minutes ” an insect alighting upon 
it; so that neither “ the overflowing of joy in the heart’s core ” nor the 
fear of “eager eyes that stare” have anything to do with the 
matter. 
We learn from the Western Daily Bress of July 2 that Miss Ida 
Roper has retired from the work, carried on by her for thirteen years, 
of exhibiting in the Bristol Museum living specimens of wild flowers 
and fruits in their respective seasons; “ her personally supervised 
case at the Museum,” says the writer, who pays a high tribute to 
Miss Roper’s work, “ revealed the local flora from A to Z.” 
