EARLY EIllTTSTT EOTA^HSTS AND TTTETIJ OAllDEXS 309 



Lists of Plants grown in English Gardens " which occupy pp. 303- 

 357, and are ot" great interest not only on account of the lists them- 

 selves, but for the notes on those to wliose gardens they relate. Here 

 we meet again many who have been considered in the earlier part 

 of the book, and here we find occasion for the only unfavourable 

 criticism which has occurred to us while going through the volume. 

 There was doubtless good reason for printing the garden lists sepa- 

 rately, but the absence of cross-references — a matter to which we 

 have already referred — from one jmrt of the volume to the other 

 where the same persons are discussed is a serious inconvenience. Even 

 if it were difficult to refer from the earlier to the later portion, the 

 converse could present no difficalty — there can be no reason, for 

 example, why, when discussing Stonehouse's garden list (pp. 348- 

 351) reference should not have been made to the sketch of him on 

 pp. 271-273. The table of contents prefixed to the volume is almost 

 ludicrously inadequate : the index itself by no means complete — 

 the important account of William Coys's garden (pp. 312-321) finds 

 no place in it and can only be found wdien going through the book — 

 by no means supplies the deficiency. Mr. Gunther is at any rate free 

 from the fondness for cross-references to which librarians are some- 

 times thought to be unduly prone — thus, although the " Notes on 

 Contemporary Botanists " and the " Garden Plants " are each pre- 

 ceded by a list of the persons to be considered, in neither case is the 

 page given on which these will be found. 



We have been led astray by this grumble from noting the 

 remaining contents of the book, which include interesting lists of 

 exotic plants from Goodyer's MSS. — again, as always, illuminated b}^ 

 Mr. Gunther's notes — and has, as an appendix, a reprint of his mis- 

 cellaneous papers. British botanists owe the author a heavy debt of 

 graiitude for the care and devotion which he has bestowed upon this 

 volume. 



James Britten. 



Guide to the University Botanic Garden, Camhridge. By Huivr- 

 PHREY Gilbert-Carter, Director of the Garden, Cambridge : 

 at the University Press, 1922. Cr. 8vo, cloth, pp. xvi, 117, 

 illustrated. Price 35. Qd. net. 



In this attractive little volume *' the sequence of the families and 

 genera is that of the eighth edition (1919) of the Engler-Gilg 

 Syllabus der PJlanzeiifamilien'. Orders are not mentioned . . . the 

 word Family in modern use is equivalent to the Natural Order of 

 the English botanists." This is in accordance with the International 

 Pules which are generally followed, except when — as frequently 

 happens — -a w^riter prefers to depart from them : in this case "the 

 practice of zoologists has been followed b}"- writing all trivial names 

 with small letters. In the introduction whence we quote the above 

 passage we find the explanation of the somewhat peculiar appearance 

 of the text owing to the presence of names in Oriental text : *' It 

 has been the hai:»py destiny of this Garden to be loved and befriended 



