40 THE JOURNAL OP BOTANY 



Rather more than three years ago (Journ. Bot. 1907, 349) we 

 noticed the first volume of a very beautiful quarto book on the 

 Wild Flowers of the British Isles by Mrs. H. Isabel Adams, pub- 

 lished by Mr. Heinemann at 30s. net. We there pointed out that 

 there was no indication in the volume then under notice that it 

 would be followed by another, but we are glad to find that it has 

 been found possible to issue the second, which is now before us, 

 and completes the w^ork so far as it is intended to be completed. 

 Unfortunately this does not go the whole way : the title-page ex- 

 cludes the "water-plants and trees," but, besides these, all save the 

 petaloid monocotyledons are also excluded. Moreover, only a 

 selection of the species of such genera as Polygonum and Rumex 

 is figured ; so that the book will appeal rather to the lover of 

 beautiful plates than to the practical botanist, although the de- 

 scriptive portion, in which Mr. Bagnall has rendered much assis- 

 tance, is very fully and carefully done. All that we said in praise 

 of the plates and of the general get-up of the first volume applies 

 equally to this ; the dissections of the flowers, so often omitted 

 from popular books, are drawn and coloured with much care, 

 and as an example of colour-printing the plates would be difficult 

 to beat. 



The first number has appeared of a new and handsome maga- 

 zine edited from the Cambridge University Press by Dr. Bateson 

 and Professor Punnett, and entitled the Journal of Genetics. It 

 is for the publication of records of original research in heredity, 

 variation, and allied subjects, and will appear in parts as material 

 accumulates ; it is expected that four parts, forming a volume, 

 will appear annually. The subscription price for a volume is 30s. 

 net ; for each part 10s. net. The contents of the number before us 

 are mainly botanical and include papers by Prof. Keeble and Miss 

 Pellew on "White-flowered Varieties of Primula sinenis " and on 

 " The Mode of Inheritance and Stature and of Time of Flowering 

 in Peas" ; a long paper, illustrated by twenty-nine plates, by 

 Dr. R. N. Salaman on " The Inheritance of Colour and other 

 Characters in the Potato " ; and a paper by Mr. E. R. Saunders 

 on "The Inheritance of Doubleness in Petunia." 



An important quarto work on Plants Indigenous to the Colony 

 of Victoria was begun by Baron von Mueller in 1860, but was 

 subsequently abandoned. A nuniber of plates had however been 

 prepared for its continuation, and these, with a few additions and 

 some notes on each, are now issued by Prof. Ewart as a second 

 volume. The author's views on nomenclature are hardly in 

 accordance wdth those of the Vienna Congress, as is shown by his 

 remark on p. 31 that " there is no need to manufacture trouble by 

 reverting to the older specific name." Under Xyris gracilis refer- 

 ence should have been made to Dr. Rendle's paper in this Journal 

 for 1899, from which it would appear (p. 502) that X. juncea, 

 which Prof. Ewart follows Bentham in combining with X. gracilis, 

 is " quite distinct " from that species. 



