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the ribs are sometimes continuous from one internode to the next, 

 and in some examples of G. approximatiformis Stur, the rihs and 

 grooves are always continuous, a feature usually regarded as peculiar 

 to Archceocalamifes. It is interesting to find that the species in 

 which the regular alternation has lost its constancy are intermediate 

 in age between the typical species of Galamites and the older Arehoeo- 

 calamites. 



The description of each species is accompanied by a synonymy 

 based on an examination of type-specimens, and a sunnnary of the 

 geographical and geological range — a most welcome contribution to a 

 much neglected branch nf systematic paheobotany. 



Great credit is due both to the department of the Netherlands 

 Government responsible for the publication of this splendid mono- 

 gra]:)h and to the authors for their successful completion of the most 

 difficult part of their task. 



A General Introduction is promised after the War, and this, one 

 hopes, will deal not only with impressions but with anatomical features, 

 so far at least as they can be cori'elated with the jnth -casts and 

 surface-characters. The production of a monograph on the scale of 

 this volume is only possible with the assistance of a substantial 

 subsidy, and the enlightened action of the Dutch Government affords 

 11 striking contrast to the parsimony and lack of appreciation of tbe 

 value of scientific research characteristic of our own Government 

 dej)artments. 



A. C. Sewabd. 



BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, etc. 



The recent publication of The Book of the Peony h\ Mr. Edward 

 Harding (Lippincott) suggests that it may be worth while to call 

 attention to the series of thirteen original drawings of cultivated 

 Peonies by Clara Maria Pope, now in the Department of Botany. 

 These formerly belonged to the Horticultural Society, and were 

 disposed of at its sale. May 2-5, 1856 : each bears the artist's auto- 

 graph and date of execution (1821-2). The sheets are of double 

 atlas size ; when acquired they wei-e in a portfolio, but have since been 

 bound. Mrs. Pope also illustrated Samuel Curtis's Moiiof/raph of 

 Camellia (1819), and tliere can be little doubt that the two plates of 

 Dahlias in his Beauties of Flora (1820) — as to which see Journ. 

 Bot. 1899, 183 — are her work, although they are not signed. The 

 drawings of Peonies — and indeed the published plates — are admirably 

 executed in the bold style suited to their subjects : according to the 

 Bictionary of National Biography (xlvi. 130) Mrs. Pope " enjoyed 

 durino- the latter part of her life a great reputation for groups of 

 flowers, of which she was an annual exhibitor from 1816 till her death " 

 on Dec. 24, 1838. Although her work was thus on a large scale (for 

 the illustrations we have mentioned consist of groups) she occasionally 

 did smaller figures — e. (j. what is rightly styled in the text " the 

 lieautiful drawing of fropceolnm majtis (Bot. Mag. 1885, t. 3375), 

 where bv inadvertence she is styled Misn Pope : the figui-e of Colletia 

 hnrnrja inp. cit. 1838, t. 3644<) is attri])uted to her in the texi, but 



