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scenery and individual trees. Descriptions of the exhibits are 
provided in an Official Guide which has been prepared more with 
the idea of providing a text-book than a mere catalogue. The 
Guide was published in 1919 at 2s., but the Controller of H.M. 
Stationery Office recognising that full information about the 
collections should be made available to as large a section of the 
public who visit Kew as possible, has agreed that the Guide may 
now be sold at 1s. The price of the Official Guide to Museum 
No. 1 is also 1s., that of Museum No. 2, 6d., and the Catalogue of 
Portraits of Botanists, 6d. 
The University Botanic Garden, Cambridge.*—A systematically 
arranged list of the plants growing in the University Botanic 
Gardens, Cambridge, has recently been published, which contains 
many interesting notes on their history, habits, and economic 
uses. The distribution and chief points of the more important 
genera are given and well reproduced plates accompany the more 
interesting and important species. A key plan to the Gardens 
is provided, with references to the page on which the description 
of the plant occurs, and by it a visitor can easily find any particular 
plant or genus. The botanical explanations provided in the 
Introduction, Glossary, and Notes on Leaves permit the book 
being used by those not intimately acquainted with botanical 
terminology, whilst an alphabetically arranged Index assists those 
unfamiliar with the systematic arrangement adopted. 
Botany of Bihar and Orissa.j—We welcome Pt. 4 of Mr. 
Haines’ Botany of Bihar and Orissa. It is paged 419-754 and 
completes the account of the flora up to the end of Labiatae. 
Pts. 2 and 3 have already been issued Pt. 3 this year, Pt. 2 last. 
Pt. 1, which will appear later, is reserved for the ‘‘ Introduction 
and General Remarks on the Botany of the Province.” The 
size is small 8vo. The order of families adopted in the Flora of 
British India has been followed in the main, but a few exceptions 
will be found as noted on p. 1 (Pt. 2), e.g., the Euphorbiaceae are 
described immediately after Tiliaceae. The BObE | is remarkably 
well printed. This makes the use of rather small type not only 
sgt Naar but actually useful, for it enables a large quantity 
rmation to be included. Keys for each family and each 
genath have been drawn up on a simple plan made possible by the 
author’s intimate acquaintance with the living flora. In addition 
to the information thus given a short description of each species 
is added, with supplementary notes in smaller type printed below 
as in the Flora of British India. 8. T. D. 
* Guide to the University Botanic Garden, He te by H. Gilbert- 
Carter, Director of the 9 arden. Camb. Univ. Press, 1922. 
t Bot re) Orissa, Part IV., by H. H. Haines, C.LE., 
gee ELS. Adlard & & Son & West Newman, Ltd., Banton 1922, 
Printed under the authority of His MaJEsTy’s STATIONERY OFFICE 
y Eyre = — $ti i ig Ltd., East Harding oe E.€, 4, 
Prin the King’s most Excellent Maijes 
