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the plate is signed " W. Fitcli del'^." Mrs. Pope was at one time 

 officially eonnected with the Horticultural Society as "Hower-painter "; 

 the sale catalogue already mentioned inelvides *' nine large drawings of 

 Dahlias," and her name also aj^pears in a collection of " miscellaneous 

 drawings."' Two portraits of Mrs. Pope, painted hy her tirst hushand 

 (Francis Wheatley '"to wliom she served as model for all his prettiest 

 fancy figures '"), were engraved by Stanier and Bartolozzi " (Diet. 

 Nat. Biogr.). 



The recently issued part (vol. vi. sect. 2, part 2) of the Flora of 

 Tropical Africa contains the conclusion of i\\e MoracecB by Mr. J. 

 Hutchinson and Dr. Kendle : the Jlrticaceee, occupying the larger 

 })ortion of the part, by Dr. Kendle ; Mj/ricacece by Mr. Hutchinson ; 

 Salicineee and CeratophyJIece by Mr. S. A. Skan : Gnetacece by the 

 late H. H. W. Pearson ; PinacecB and Taxacecd by Dr. Stapf ; and 

 Cycadacece by the editor. Sir David Pi-ain, who contributes an 

 interesting preface. In view of the difficulties as to dates with which 

 botanists are only too familiar, it might be Avell to ascertain exactly 

 when the part was actually issvied ; the " dates of publication of the 

 several [i. e. two] parts of this volume " printed on the back of the 

 title-page give this as November, 1917, but it was not received at the 

 Department of Botany until Feb. 23 of the present year. Numerous 

 new species are described : in view of the rule which insists on a 

 Latin diagnosis as a condition of recognized publication, how will 

 these be regarded by future monographers P We note that while the 

 foi-mer tempoi-ary Kew practice of spelling specific names derived 

 from persons with a small initial lias been abandoned when the name 

 is in the genitive case, it is maintained when this is given in 

 adjective form — e.g. "carruthersiana." 



The Kew Bulletin for November last contains a " List of 

 Economic! Plants native or suitable for Cultivation in the British 

 Empire," with an introduction by Dr. Eendle. The title is, we 

 think, somewhat misleading, as food plants are excluded. The Bulletin 

 for December includes an interesting " Flora of the Somme Battle- 

 field," by Captain A. W. Hill. In the first number for 191 S, dated 

 February, Miss Ida M. Roper gives an account of the experiment now 

 being tried in North Somerset to counteract the constant erosion of 

 the coast line by the planting of Hpartina Toxcnsendi. Other papers 

 in the number, which contains 48 pages, 4 plates, and other illustra- 

 tions, and costs only 5(/. — happy is an editor who has a Government 

 Department at his back! — are on Pinus canariensis by J. Hutchin- 

 son, who also contributes descri])tions of the Canarian species of 

 Ci/tisns (many of them new) known as fodder plants under the names 

 " Tagasaste " and "Garcia"; on the diseases of Parsni])s by A. I). 

 Cotton ; and on the genus Bhizophora in British Guiana, by Alleyne 

 Leechman, who describes a new species, B. JLarrisonii. 



The AnnaJii of Botany for January contains the seventh instal- 

 ment, dealing with the Ptcroidece, of Prof. Bower's " Studies in the 

 Phylogeny of the Filicales " ; " Studies in the Permeability of the 

 Pulvinus of Mimosa pudica,"" by N . H. Blacknian and vS. G. Paine ; 



