371 



NEW PHANEROGAMS PUBLISHED IN BRITAIN IN 1884. 



The following were accidentally omitted from our List at 

 pp. 51-57 : — 



Bartholina Ethel^e Bolus. — Cape. Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 472. 

 Bkachycorythis Tysoni Bolus. — Cape. Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 485. 

 Cymbidium ustulatum Bolus. — Cape. Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 469. 

 DisA LUGENS, D. ocellata, D. purpueascens, D. uncinata, and 



D. venusta, all of Bolus. Cape. Journ. Linn. Soc. 477-483. 

 DisPEEis namaquensis Bolus. — Cape. Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 486. 

 Satyrium Hallackii, S. Lindleyanum, S. marginatum, and S. saxi- 



coLUM, all of Bolus. — Cape. Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 474-6. 

 SoLANUM Andukanum Baker. — N. Granada. Journ. Linn. Soc. 



XX. 498. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



The Botanical Exchange Chib of the British Isles. Eeport for 1883 

 [by G. Nicholson] . Eeport for 1884 [by Arthur Bennett] . 

 Manchester: printed by James Collins & Co., King Street. 

 1885. 

 We are glad to welcome two more Keports of the Botanical 

 Exchange Club, albeit their appearance is somewhat late. And 

 we are glad to note, too — of course assuming that the existence of 

 our rarer plants is in no way endangered thereby — that there 

 seems no lack of energy among the member's of the Club ; the total 

 number of plants received for distribution being, in 1883, 3735, 

 from 33 contributors, and in 1884, 4371, from 27 contributors. 

 Dr. Boswell's state of health has precluded him fi-om supplying 

 any notes ; but Messrs. Nicholson and Bennett have worked hard 

 to supply the absence of these, the latter having received much 

 help from Dr. Focke, of Bremen, in naming the Bubi, as well as 

 from other foreign botanists. Among the most generous of the 

 contributors we notice the Kevs. E. F. & W. K. Linton, compara- 

 tively recent members of the Club ; and it is pleasant to note the 

 return of the Rev. H. E. Fox to his old love, as further indicated 

 in the pages of our present volume. The entire absence of Irish 

 plants from the Eeports is remarkable, inasmuch as Ireland 

 possesses in Mr. H. C. Hart and Mr. E. M. Barrington — not to 

 mention Mr. A. G. More, whose official duties perhaps interfere 

 with his researches into the Irish Flora — energetic and painstaking 

 field-botanists. 



Although containing not very much which will be new to the 

 readers of this Journal, the Eeports afford a series of texts on 

 which we are tempted to offer a few remarks. It must, of course, 

 be borne in mind that each Eeport is primarily intended to be read 

 in connection with the sets of specimens distributed by the Club, 

 and this explains the presence in it of certain remarks which are 

 somewhat wanting in general interest— such, for example, as the 



