20S THE .lOl'HNAt, OF BOTAST 



The woodcuts "have been coloured in the most accurate and artistic 

 manner," and the English names have been added in a sixteenth 

 century hand, which Canon Vaughan thinks was probably that of 

 John Warner, who was Dean of the Cathedral from 1559 until his 

 death in 1564. That Warner was interested in botany may be 

 presumed from the fact that he presented to the Cathedral Library a 

 copy of Ruellius's De Historic/, Stirpium with the inscription " Ex 

 dono Jo. Warneri nuper decani Wynton " ; a copy of Dioscorides' 

 De Materia Medica also contains Warner's autograph. 



The Twenty-seventh Annual Report of the New York Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture (vol. ii. part 2), a handsome quarto volume, is 

 devoted to Notes on Edible Plants, prepared by Dr. U. P. Hedriek 

 from "'a voluminous manuscript consisting of a compilation of existing 

 knowledge on the edible food plants of the world " by E. L. Stur- 

 tevunt (1812-1898) whose studies in economic botany are well known. 

 The volume, which includes a biography of Sturtevant and an 

 excellent bibliograplrv, is fully documented : we hope to return to it 

 later. 



The Report of the Botanical Section of the Somersetshire Archaeo- 

 logical and Natural History Society (Proceedings, lxvi. ) records 

 "energetic field work by individual members: in spite of a wet 

 summer nearly 500 notes were sent in." A selection of these is 

 published in the Report, the most notable being the addition of 

 G -ii fin mi campestris to the county flora. We take the opportunity 

 of saying that the contribution of a guinea towards the deficit of the 

 Journal last year, acknowledged as from the Taunton Natural Historv 

 Society, should have been credited to the Botanical Section. 



The latest issue (April 21) of the Bulletin of the New York 

 Botanical Garden is entirely occupied by a classified Guide to the 

 Economic Museum of the Garden, prepared by Dr. 11. H. Rusby, 

 its honorary curator. The primary classification of the objects is in 

 accordance with their use as products, but the plants occurring under 

 each heading are arranged in botanical sequence. The " Catalogue 

 of Exhibits," which occupies more than three hundred pages of small 

 print, includes numerous descriptive notes and other information. 



The part (vol. vii. part 6) just to hand of Mr. Maiden's Forest 

 Flora of New South Wales, while affording ground for congratula- 

 tion to the author on the steady continuation of a work of undoubted 

 utility during nearly twenty years, and to the Government of the 

 State for producing it at so low a cost — 46 quarto pages with 10 plates 

 at the cost of a shilling per part, or 10s. per dozen parts — also presents 

 matter for regret in small but important details which it seems hardly 

 credible should for so long have escaped attention. The pages are 

 (save for the number) absolutely devoid of any heading — not even 

 the title of the work appears --and as the descriptions of species often 

 extend over several pages, the inconvenience of consulting the volumes 

 is hardly atoned for by the index. Moreover, while the contents of 

 preceding parts appear on the wrapper of this, its own contents are 

 nowhere indicated ! 



Uxdeu the heading "Buttercups and Daisies" the Evening News 

 of June -i publishes an illustration from an obviously faked photo- 

 graph, with the legend attached: "Two little Londoners have a happy 

 time gathering wild flowers in Hyde Park ! 



