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from saying that she has given us a very interesting collection of 

 129 plates, taken from photographs, of British plants, including a 

 few commonly cultivated in gardens. We are convinced that in 

 time the superiority of drawings which do not represent a speci- 

 men so much as a species will again assert itself ; hut at present 

 reproductions such as Miss Wrigley's are in vogue, and hers are 

 as good as if not better than any that we have seen. The studies 

 of trees — of the Beech in particular — are exceedingly good, and we 

 would gladly have spared some of the smaller plants, which are 

 less characteristic, for more of this kind ; of these latter, the speci- 

 mens are not always well selected — e. g. Cotyledon Umhilicus and 

 Spiraa Ulmaria, neither of which has any foliage. Miss Lorrain 

 Smith gives a short description of each plate. The volume is a 

 handsome small quarto, and costs 15s. net. 



The Herb Garden, by Frances A. Bardswell, with coloured illus- 

 trations by the Hon. Florence Amherst and Isabelle Forrest 

 (A. & C. Black, 7s. 6d.), is an attractive guide to the making of a 

 border or bed for herbs, which has now become a feature in large 

 gardens. The book wins an approval by its simplicity and un- 

 pretentiousness as well as by its general accuracy ; Mrs. Bardswell 

 writes well and with knowledge, and has avoided doing what has 

 been done before — sometimes well, as by Lady Eosalind Northcote 

 in her Book of Herbs, but more often badly ; so that her book has 

 a character not always to be met with in volumes of the kind. 

 The illustrations are pretty and fairly good in their way ; we 

 prefer Miss Forrest's studies of single plants to Miss Amherst's 

 general effects — some of the former, notably the Horse Mint, are 

 distinctly good. 



Messrs. Duckworth have just published (price 7s. 6d. net) a 

 handsome and comprehensive volume on Cacao, its Cultivation 

 and Curing, by the late J. H. Hart, whose death we announced on 

 p. 176. Although mainly of commercial interest, the botanical 

 history of Theobroma Cacao is dealt with, and the other species 

 of the genus are briefly considered ; the diseases, vegetable and 

 others, are fully treated, as are the various matters connected 

 with the growth of the trees and the preparation of cocoa. There 

 are numerous illustrations and an excellent index. 



Prof. Saccardo is to be congratulated on the completion of 

 his magnum ojnis (in every sense of the phrase), the Sylloge Fiui- 

 gorum, by the issue of the conclusion of the Index Iconum 

 Fungoriim, compiled under his direction by Dr. G. B. Travers. 

 This second volume (M-Z) contains 1310 pages, 120 of which are 

 devoted to a supplement to the whole Index. The work is not 

 one which lends itself to a detailed review ; it may be described 

 in one word as being indispensable to every comprehensive student 

 of fungi. The price— 82 francs — will not seem high if the nature 

 of the work and its limited public be taken into consideration. 

 Our only regret is that it was not printed on thinner paper. 



The second number (dated Ap. 7, but only recently to hand) of the 

 Journal of Genetics yields in noway to the first, which we noticed 



