ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY, MICROSCOPY, ETC. 71 



'coloured plates were drawn mainly by James Sowerby. Four complete 

 volumes of a supplement, and part of a fifth, were published between 

 1831 and 1865, with illustrations by J. De Carle Sowerby, James 

 'Sowerby's eldest son, partly in collaboration with J. W. Salter, with 

 descriptions by various botanists. 



The drawings are in nearly every instance annotated by the artist 

 and by the writer of the descriptions, and the author has transcribed all 

 •such notes as are of any value or interest with regard to the drawings or 

 the specimens figured. He has also carefully collated the specimens in 

 Sowerby's herbarium. It is of interest to note that forty-eight of the 

 plants figured were collected in Battersea Fields, and thirty-three in 

 other London localities, such as St. George's Fields, Tothill Fields, 

 Lambeth, and Camberwell. 



Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien.* — The fourth edition of Engler's 

 Syllabus, following closely on the third, shows but few alterations. The 

 most important are those affecting the lower plants. Recent work on 

 Dictyota finds acknowledgment in the inclusion of the Dictyotales 

 under the section Phaaophyceas. There is no alteration in the general 

 plan of arrangement. 



Hayata, B. — Composite Formosanae. 



[A systematic list of the cornpositse known from the island, comprising thirty- 

 nine genera.] Journ. Coll. Set. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, xviii. 



Art. S (1904) pp. 45 (2 pis.) 



-Mil li rex, J. — A review of Californian Polemoniaceae. 



[A systematic account, including six genera and about 150 species, with 

 descriptions of the species and their distribution within the area.] 



University of California Publication*, ii. (1904) pp. 1-71 (11 pis.). 



CRYPTOGAMS. 



Pteridophyta. 



Ferns of Tropical America.t — Gr. Hieronymus gives a systematic 

 account of the numerous Pteridophyta collected by F. C. Lehmann and 

 ■others in Guatemala, Columbia, Ecuador, etc. The collections made 

 by A. Stubel in the Andes are also quoted in some cases, but will soon 

 appear as a whole in a separate publication. The author has been 

 occupied for some years on the work, and has contrived to obtain a 

 sight of all the original specimens of Swartz and more recent authors. 

 The present section of the paper includes 315 species, many of which 

 are new, comprises an abundance of critical notes, and extends from 

 Trichoma nes to Elaphoglossum. The genera are accepted as defined in 

 Engler and Prantl's " Pflanzenfamilien." The author rejects the usually 

 accepted principle that the first species described under a new genus is 

 the type of that genus. For instance, eight of the twelve species 

 which Richard put in his Xepltr odium have had to be separated off and 

 placed in six other genera, the type species among them. The remain- 



* Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien. By A. Kngler. 4th ed., Svo, xxx. and 237 pp. 

 Borntraeger, Berlin, 1904. 



t Engler's Bot. Jahrb., xxxiv. (1904) pp. 417-5G0. 



