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present represent very different views of species, and are not always 

 in accordance with Mr. Fryer's conclusions. For example, Mr. 

 Druce (Fl. Berks. 516) records P. fluitans without doubt as a Berk- 

 shire plant, and gives a long account of its collection ; Mr. Fryer, 

 however, says: " Mr. Brace sent me specimens from Berkshire, 

 which probably will be found to belong to the fluitans group, but 

 they are not sufficient to name with certainty"; and he does not 

 include Berkshire among the counties producing it. 



A little more care should have been exercised in the reading of 

 the proofs, especially as to proper names: " Sculley" and " T. F. 

 Mott," for example, should be " Scully" and " F. T. Mott." 



It is to be regretted that the publisher has not taken more pains 

 to render his portion of the undertaking worthy of the work ; un- 

 fortunately he has not done so. The plates, for instance, bear no 

 names ; " L. Keeve & Co. London." stands in every case where the 

 name ought to be. This is not only absurd, but extremely in- 

 convenient for reference ; every purchaser of the work will be 

 compelled to supply for himself the publisher's omission, and this 

 will, to some extent, disfigure the plates. The arrangement of the 

 text is equally faulty. In a work of this importance, each species 

 should of course begin on a fresh page ; here, however, everything 

 runs on — the first species begins in the middle of the page where 

 the description of the genus is ended ; the sixth within ten lines of 

 the bottom of a page. Exception might be taken to other details 

 of arrangement, but these are sufficient to show that the author 

 may justly complain of the way in which his work is brought before 

 the public. If Messrs. Lovell Reeve will refer to one of the parts 

 of Mr. Hanbury's beautifully (but slowly) produced Monograph of 

 British Hieracia, they will see how such a work ought to look. 



We would suggest that the date of future numbers should at 

 least be placed upon the wrapper, and we hope that, when the 

 monograph is completed, an accurate record of the dates of publi- 

 cation will be placed on the back of the title. 



PalmcB Mattogrossenses novce vel minus cognitm quas collegit descripsit 

 et iconibus illustravit J. Baebosa Eodrigues. Eio de Janeiro : 

 Leuzinger. 1898. 4to, pp. 92, tt. 27. 



It is now nearly thirty years since Dr. Barbosa Eodrigues first 

 entered the botanical ranks as a describer of the plants of his native 

 country, and since then several meritorious memoirs have appeared 

 from his pen, notably those on the Palms and the Orchids. Dr. 

 Rodrigues has recently availed himself of the facilities now offered 

 for reaching, by a pleasant journey of a few days from Buenos 

 Ayres, the very centre of Matto Grosso, and the handsome memoir 

 now under notice is the first fruit of his expedition. Dr. Eodrigues 

 did not penetrate into the barely known country lying to the north 

 of Cujaba ; but though his explorations were restricted to the 

 neighbourhood of the capital and to places like Corumba and 

 Melga9o on the way up, he succeeded in finding several palms 

 new to science ; species, too, which have never been collected 



