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Illustrations of Cyperaceae——When the publication of the diag- 
noses of the new genera and species of Cyperaceae, left in manuscript 
by the late Mr. C. B. Clarke, was announced (Kew Bulletin for 
1908, p. 376), reference was made to the fact that Mr. Clarke, 
some years before his death had printed 144 plates of Cyperaceae, 
with corresponding explanatory text. As these plates aid in 
elucidating the views held by Mr. Clarke with regard to the 
systematic arrangement of the genera of Cyperaceae, a hope was 
expressed that these plates might be issued to the public as supple- 
mentary to the diagnoses of the genera and species published in 
Kew Bulletin, Additional Series, viii. 
Tt has now to be announced that this hope has been fulfilled. 
On the appearance of the volume referred to, the executors of the 
late Mr. Clarke, decided to issue these plates at a nominal price 
with the object of placing at the disposal of botanists a further 
instalment of the results of his prolonged study of this natural 
family. The issue of the plates has been entrusted to Messrs. 
Williams and Norgate, who publish them in a well got up volume,* 
with an introductory note by Mr. B. Daydon Jackson, to whom, as 
has already been explained in this Bulletin, the task of collecting 
and editing the descriptions published last year, along with the 
scheme of arrangement adopted by Mr. Clarke in his manuscript 
monograph, had been entrusted. “This introductory note ae 
eter- 
larum,” supplied by Mr. Clarke with which the volume opens, has 
been supplemented by an alphabetical index at the end which adds 
greatly to the value of the work. 
* Illustrations of Oyperaceae : prepared under the direction of the late 
Charles Baron Clarke, F.R.S., some time President of the Linnean Society of 
London : London (Williams & Norgate), 1909. Price 12s. 6d. net. Title, 
preface, Index Tabularum, pp. i~ix. “144 plates, and as many leaves of 
explanation, Index, pp. 1-6. 
