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are considered ; the species, of which there is a clavis, are very care- 

 fully described and annotated ; the usual and convenient practice of 

 numbering the species has not been followed. There are four plates, 

 two in colour. 



In the Orchid Beview for February, Colonel Godfery calls atten- 

 tion to an instance of alternative self-fertilization in an Australian 

 orchid, in many ways parallel to that of Oj)hn/s upifera desciibed by 

 him in this Journal for 1921 (p. 285). The orchid in question is 

 Prasojjhylhim c/racllc Rogers, described with a figure (rej^roduced in 

 the Review) in' Trans, li, Soc. S. Australia, xxxvii. 54. We note that 

 Lieut.-Col. llogers, the writer of the paper and an acknowledged 

 authority on Australian Orchids, has been elected President of the 

 Koyal Society of South Australia. 



When referring (p. 64) to Miss Ethel Poulton's paper on a mon- 

 strous ClieirantliHs Clieiri, we omitted to call attention to Mr. F. J. 

 Chittenden's paper on " The Rogue Wallflower" published in Journ. 

 R. Hort. Soc. xl. 83-87 and reprinted in this Journal for 1914, 

 pp. 265-209. 



With the view of extending the knowledge of British Grasses — 

 the title of the book — Messrs. McGill and Smith, seedsmen, of Ayr, 

 have issued as a small quarto volume an album in which they are 

 represented by sixty-five jDlates. These are taken from photographs 

 of specimens selected for the purpose by Mr. A. M, Mackie, one of 

 the staff of the firm, and are very well produced ; without going so far 

 as to say that by the use of a magnifying glass " the most minute 

 details essential for identification may he clearly seen," the figures 

 are undoubtedly useful, and should go far towards fulfilling the object 

 for which they are produced. A short descriptive phrase accompanies 

 each plate, but for full descriptions the reader is referred to Bentham 

 and Hooker's Handhook of the British Flora, 



The latest instalment of Father Blatter's Flora Arahica (Records 

 Rot. Surv. India, viii. no. 2) is singular!}^ devoid of novelty : its. 

 nearly two hundred pages (Leguminosse-Compositai) contain only ono 

 novelty, Btilicaria menachensis Schweinf. MS. in Herb. Kew. (un- 

 described, but stated to be "very near P. petiolaris Jaub. & Sp-") 

 and two new combinations resulting from the reduction of Btero^ 

 cejyhalus to Scaliosa. 



Messes. Chahleswoeth & Co. of Haywards Heath send us a 

 handsome catalogue which presents some notable features. In the 

 first place it has no title-page ; the title — Orchids — appears only on 

 the cover. The catalogue proper is preceded by a long paper on 

 '• Orchid Mycorrhiza " by Mr. Ramsbottom, illustrated by numerous 

 figures taken from preparations by the late head of the firm, Joseph 

 Charlesworth (1851-1920). It includes five coloured plates of hybrids 

 raised by the firm — among them Charlesworthara — a trigeneric 

 hybrid genus " combining 3IiUonia, Oricideum, and Cochlioda 

 species" — and Vui/lsteheara, anothor trigeneric, in which Odonto- 

 glossum replaces Oncidium. The extent sd. Messrs. Charlesworths' 



