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another part of this Journal, have once more formed the subject of 

 questions in the House of Commons. The Enumeration of Chinese 

 Plants will also, we trust, recover from the blight which seems to fall 

 upon so many of the Kew literary undertakings. As we remarked 

 not long since, no greater testimony to the remarkable ability and 

 energy of Sir Joseph Hooker can be given than that which is afforded 

 by the fact that, while Director of Kew Gardens, he found time for 

 most of his work on the Genera Plaittanmi, as well as for numerous 

 important memoirs and monographs and an annual Keport of the 

 Gardens and Herbarium, for which the existing Bulletin is in no 

 sense a substitute. 



In our notice of part ii. of this volume, we took exception to the 

 brackets in which (in the body of the book, but not in the index) 

 the authority for each specific name is placed ; and we trust that 

 the Editor will see his way to abandon this unnecessary and even 

 misleading practice. Uniformity even in such small matters is 

 desirable, and, considering the numerous changes which have been 

 introduced into this volume, the fact that brackets were employed 

 in the earlier part of the work is hardly sufficient to justify their 

 retention here. The Kew use of a small initial for adjectival forms 

 of proper names is, we are glad to see, condemned by the Berlin 

 rules, as well as by custom and common sense. A new feature is 

 the introduction of the phrase "no specimen at Kew" at the end 

 of some of the descriptions, which seems to justify the inaccurate 

 inference that specimens of all the other plants are to be found 

 there. Some of the abbreviations employed are unusual — such as 

 "Konig and Sims' Ann." ; and we cannot think it right to attribute 

 the species established in Bentham & Hooker's Genera Plantarum 

 to either author individually, as is done when "Acidanthera pauci- 

 flora Benth. Gen. Plant, iii. 706" is cited. Some exception may, 

 we think, be taken to the citation " Eriospermum dissitiflorum 

 Schlechter" for a new species, without some addition of "MS." or 

 "in Herb.," for Mr. Schlechter does not appear to have written the 

 description. These of course are small matters, but from an editor 

 in Dr. Dyer's position we have a right to expect something like 

 perfection. At any rate we have to thank him — on the principle of 

 "better late than never" — for giving his imprimatur to Mr. Baker's 

 work, and we trust that he may live to edit many more volumes of the 

 Flora Vapensis. 



ARTICLES IN JOURNALS^ 



Annals of Botany (June). — J. B. Clifford, ' Physiological properties 

 of a Myxomycete Plasmodium.' — E. Sargant, ' Formation of sexual 

 nuclei in Lilium Martarjon: II. Spermatogenensis ' (2 pi.). — G. 

 Massee, ' Monograph of Geoglossem ' (2 pL). — D. T. Gwynne- 

 Vaughan, 'Polystely in Primula' (1 pL). — D. H. Scott, 'New 



* The dates assigned to the numbers are those which appear on their covers 

 or title-pages, but it must not always be inferred that this is the actual date of 

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