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THE JOURNAL OF I30TANY 
The Essex Naturalist (xx. pt. 4), issued in September, contains 
the Presidential Address delivered by Mr. Paulson at the Annual 
Meeting in March last on “ The Fungus-root (Mycorrhiza).” The 
paper, which is illustrated by three plates from micro-photographs, 
gives a summary of the three periods— 1840-1885; 1885-1894 ; 
1894-1904 —in the study of the fungus-root as recognised by Galland 
in 1904, since which date the number of writers on the subject has 
rapidly increased; it deals especially with the ectotropic fungus-root 
and particularly with that of the birch-tree, which has occupied the 
writer’s attention for the last three years. The part also contains 
the first portion of a biography of Richard Warner (1711-1775) by 
the late G. S. Boulger, intended as an introduction to a new edition 
of the Planted JVoodfordienses which was in contemplation ; and an 
interesting sketch by Miss Willmott of her sister, Mrs. Berkeley of 
Spetcliley, who began at Warley Lea, in Essex, the experiments upon 
the cross-fertilisation of primroses which she afterwards carried out 
with such success in her Worcestershire home. A copy of Turner 
and Dillwyn’s Botanists' Guide, formerly the property of Edward 
Forster and annotated by him, has been acquired by the Stratford 
Museum Library. 
Mr. Arthur A. Dallman has issued a prospectus of The Flora 
of Flint and Denbigh, on which he has been engaged for about 
twenty years. In addition to the usual contents of a flora, it will 
contain matters not always included therein ; the author has paid 
much attention to problems connected with pollination and floral 
biology, and the results of his observations will find place ; folk-lore 
and plant-names, obtained at first-hand, will form a feature ; the bio¬ 
graphical section will contain much new and unrecorded matter. 
“Although the work is in a fairly advanced stage, it is not yet possible 
to indicate a definite date for its publication ” ; its price to subscribers 
will be a guinea—names should be sent to the author, whose address— 
curiously omitted from the prospectus—is 17 Mount Road, Higher 
Tran mere, Birkenhead. 
We understand that the discontinuation of the Cambridge 
British Flora has been definitely decided upon : there is thus more 
need than ever for a new British Flora, although it cannot be said 
that the expensive and cumbrous Cambridge publication could ever 
supply the want that has so long been felt. Some years ago it was 
announced in these pages that the Rev. E. F. Linton had such a 
work in contemplation, and had indeed partly prepared it; but he 
has abandoned the idea, and the field is still unoccupied. Such a 
Flora as is demanded would be no light task, but it ought not to be 
beyond accomplishment, even if, as in the case of the Cambridge 
book, the work were undertaken by various hands—a scheme which, 
we think, has much to recommend it. 
Mr. Martinits Nijhoff, of the Hague, has issued a well-printed 
Catalogue (No. 488) of Books of the 17 th and 18 th Centuries —a 
continuation of that recently issued of 15th and 16th Century books. 
