Prepayment for 1896, 16s. post free, may be sent to the Publishers. No. 403. JULY, 1896. THE Vol. XXXIV. JOURNAL OF BOTANY BRITISH AND FOREIGN ZDITED BV JAMES BRITTEN, F.L.S., Senior Assistant, Department of Botany, British Museum (Natural Histoky), South Kensington. CONTENTS. PAGK I PAGE Notes on Sarcumoiia ininidta X<f^. By i The Keproduction of Diatoms .. 318 Anna Webeb van Bosse (Plate | Short Notes..- South Hants Plants. "^'^•^ "^^^ ! —Lepidium Dmba in Irelnnd.— Professor Babingtou on Ruhus in Vacciniuin Oxycoccits in Somer- 1891 285 setshire. — Alpinia {Hellenia) T . u . ,-n 1-iT -D -cm- i4. I occanica {A. nutans K. Schum. Lichenes Antillarum a W. R. Elhott ! „^„ tj^„^ .,. f. collecti. Exponit Edv. A. Wainio I ^""^ ^°'^-^ ^^^ (concluded) 292 Notices of Books : — Notes on the Index Kewensis. By I Further Observations on the Or- Dr. Otto Kuntze 298 ganization of the Fossil Plants Tj-uT u- 1 XT . VTT rru of thc Coal-Measures. By W. C. Bibliographical Notes:— XII. The Williamson, LL.D., F.R.S., & Dates of Rees's Cycloptedia . . 307 i d^ jj, Scott, F.R.S. . . . 321 Revision of Extra-tropical South i The Flora of the Alps. By Al- Afi'ican Asclepiadacece. By Ru- I fred W. Bennett, M.A!, B. Sc, DOLPH Schlechter 311 • F.L.S 325 George Dionysius Ehret . . . . 316 j Book-Notes, News, &c 327 LONDON : WEST, NEWMAN & CO., 54, HATTON GARDEN, E.G. DUL.U & CO., SOHO SQUARE. Price One Shilling and Eightpence.