100 THE NEW "index KEWENSIS." 



intermediate forms between the typical hybrid and S. Aucuparia 

 will be found, and he states that these forms are scarcely to be dis- 

 tinguished from S. Aiiciiparin, since they have completely pinnate 

 leaves, in which, however, the upper leaflets are a little decurrent 

 on the midrib of the compound leaf, or are slightly fused together. 



A Correction. — In the list of microscopic fungi published in 

 this Journal for January (p. 7) I stated that the genus Piptocephalis 

 had not been previously recorded for Britain. I relied on a state- 

 ment in Massee's British Fungi [Plujcomycctes and Ustilaginea), 1891 

 (p. 106), that Piptocephalis had not yet been found in this country. 

 There is, however, a record of L'iptocephalis Freseniana De Bary in 

 tbis Journal for 1884, p. 136. The plant was found by Mr. Grove 

 at Edgbaston. — A. L. Smith. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



The New " Index Kewensis." 



Boyal Gardens, Kew. Bulletin of MiscelUmeous Information. No. 121. 

 January, 1897. DXLI. List of Kew Publications, 1841-95. 

 [Compiled by B. D. Jackson ; preface by W. T. T. Dyer.] 

 Price Fourpence. 



We are sorry that Mr. Jackson, who has done much useful work, 

 and from whom much more may be expected, should have wasted 

 any portion of his valuable time over this List. One great achieve- 

 ment, the curiously-named Index Kewensis, lies behind him ; it is 

 understood that he has in contemplation another undertaking of 

 equal usefulness and almost equal magnitude in a new edition of 

 "Pritzel." If we are not mistaken, too, it was announced long 

 since that Mr. Jackson had a life of Banks in preparation ; and we 

 know that Sir Joseph Hooker, who has himself recently done much 

 to raise Banks in the estimation of scientific men, is most anxious 

 that this biography should be taken in hand by one who may be 

 trusted to do justice to his subject. When, therefore, we see Mr. 

 Jackson's name associated with such a list as this, we feel inclined 

 to adapt the words of the judge who said — " Prisoner, you have 

 received a good education, and a brilliant career lay open before 

 you, instead of which you go about the country stealing ducks." 

 If Mr. Jackson wanted some lighter work by way of relaxation 

 before buckling to more important tasks, he might have found it 

 in the preparation of a general index to the various Kew Journals 

 of Botany, not one volume of which is adequately indexed ; or 

 we should have welcomed his help in a similar compilation for 

 our own Journal. The former might have been included among 

 the "miscellaneous information" to which the Bulletin is devoted, 

 and would have been welcomed by botanists in general ; while it is 

 difficult to see of what possible use this list of Kew publications 

 can be to any one except those whose names figure in it, who may 

 like to be reminded of their youthful exploits. 



