. Journal of botany, British and foreign . er, illustrated by twenty-nine plates, byDr. R. N. Salaman on The Inheritance of Colour and otherCharacters in the Potato ; and a paper by Mr. E. R. Saunderson The Inheritance of Doubleness in Petunia. An important quarto work on Plants Indigenous to the Colonyof Victoria was begun by Baron von Mueller in 1860, but wassubsequently abandoned. A nuniber of plates had however beenprepared for its continuation, and these, with a few additions andsome notes on each, are now issued by Prof. Ewart as a secondvolume. The authors views on nomenclature are hard
. Journal of botany, British and foreign . er, illustrated by twenty-nine plates, byDr. R. N. Salaman on The Inheritance of Colour and otherCharacters in the Potato ; and a paper by Mr. E. R. Saunderson The Inheritance of Doubleness in Petunia. An important quarto work on Plants Indigenous to the Colonyof Victoria was begun by Baron von Mueller in 1860, but wassubsequently abandoned. A nuniber of plates had however beenprepared for its continuation, and these, with a few additions andsome notes on each, are now issued by Prof. Ewart as a secondvolume. The authors views on nomenclature are hardly inaccordance wdth those of the Vienna Congress, as is shown by hisremark on p. 31 that there is no need to manufacture trouble byreverting to the older specific name. Under Xyris gracilis refer-ence should have been made to Dr. Rendles paper in this Journalfor 1899, from which it would appear (p. 502) that X. juncea,which Prof. Ewart follows Bentham in combining with X. gracilis,is quite distinct from that species. Tab. Highleylith. Nevs^ Lichens. West,Newman iiap. 41 NEW LICHENS. By a. Lorrain Smith, (Plate 510.) Several of the species of lichens described below were col-lected by well-known lichenologists many years ago, and arepreserved in the herbarium of the British Museum. At that timeless use was made of the microscope for purposes of determinationthan in our day of improved optical instruments ; the microscope,however, must always be the final criterion in the case of plantsthat are classified chiefly on their microscopical characters. Fieldidentification by trained naturalists is marvellously accurate, butmistakes are liable to occur unless constant use is made of highpowers of magnification. Other species, collected recently, were sent to me on variousoccasions for identification, and have proved to be of extremeinterest. It is with great pleasure that I tender my thanks to thevarious donors. They will all be included in the for
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