156 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



ViTis MicRODiPTEEA, Baker (Ampelidese;. — Madagascar. (Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xviii. 266.) 



WuLLscHLiEGELiA CALCARATA, Beutli. (Orchldeae). — N. Brazil 

 {Spruce, n. 2847). (Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 342.) 



Zephyranthes macrosiphon, Baker (AmaryllidacesB). — Mexico. 

 (Gard. Chron. xvi. 70. i 



Notices of Boofts. 



The fourth edition of Bentley's well-known and widely-used 

 ' Manual of Botany ' lias recently appeared. The earlier editions 

 have been noticed in this Journal at some length : it is only neces- 

 sary to point out the improvements which have been made in the 

 present issue. These consist mainly in an embodiment of the 

 more important researches which have been familiarised to English 

 readers by the translation (now out of print) of Sachs' ' Lehrbuch '; 

 while the portion devoted to the economic and medicinal plants has 

 been supplemented by references to Fliickiger and Hanbury's 

 ' Pharmacographia,' and Bentley and Trimen's ' Medicinal Plants.' 

 Many other alterations have been made, so that Prof. Bentley is 

 justified in saying that " it may be almost regarded as a new work.'' 

 Although containing some sixty additional pages, this edition is 

 less bulky than its predecessor. It is probably the most comprehen. 

 sive of existing manuals, and will no doubt command a large sale. 



Messrs. George Bell and Sons have issued a new edition of 

 Johnson's useful ' Gardeners' Dictionary,' the special feature of 

 which is a revised supplement including all the new plants and 

 varieties to the end of 1880, by Mr. N. E. Brown, of Kew. The 

 volume now contains over a thousand pages, and is an extremely 

 handy manual of reference for information connected with the 

 history and management of garden plants. The supplement, of 

 some 150 pages, may be had separately ; an arrangement by which 

 those who possess earlier editions will be able to bring their copies 

 up to date at small cost. 



Mr. George Egberts has published a volume of the ' Topography 

 and Natural History of Lofthouse,' near Wakefield, which contains 

 a 'Diary of Natural Phenomena' from 1862 to 1875 inclusive; and 

 a short list of the rarer plants of the neighbourhood. 



Mr. William Mathews has published, in a neat little pamphlet 

 of less than sixty pages, a very useful account of ' The Flora of the 

 Clent and Lickey Hills and neighbouring parts of the County of 

 Worcester.' He begins with a sketch of the district, and of the 

 literature of the subject, and then gives a list of the Flowering 

 Plants and Ferns, with localities for the more interesting. 



Baron F. Von Mueller sends us a very handy * Census of the 

 Genera of Plants hitherto known as indigenous to Australia.' It 

 is a list of orders and genera, the authority, date, and place of 



