Abstract
THIS volume of the Kew' Bulletin is the second of the regenerated series. For the most part the contents are connected with systematic or economic botany. Herbarium workers have contributed lists of new flowering plants from Africa and elsewhere, reductions of the Wallichian herbarium, identifications of algae and fungi, and special articles. The rubber boom is reflected in several articles, notably in the accounts of Guayule rubber, obtained from Parthenium argen-tatum, and of Mgoa rubber, the product of the East African tree Mascarenhasia elastica. Various additions have been made to the wild fauna and flora of the gardens, the most important being the list of lepidoptera compiled by Mr. A. L. Simmons. Notes on the cricket-bat willow and on gardens and parks in South Wales represent the work of members of the gardens' staff, and articles have been contributed from India and Africa by former members of the staff.
Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Pp. 421 + 152. (London: Darling and Son, 1907.) Price 5s.
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Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Nature 77, 534 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/077534b0
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