350 NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
Hooker. Inthe present handbook Endlicher's list i is again neglected, 
This is the more to be regretted, as it affects the synonymy and 
authority of several species. The following names struck us as ab- 
sent from Hooker’s Handbook :— 
Hierochloe Banksiana, Endl.= H. redolens, R. Brown. 
Arundo Richardii, Endl.= A. australis, Rich. 
Cordyline australis, Endl. Norfolk Isl. = Dracæna australis, Forst. 
Astelia Richardii, Endl. 
Podocarpus Matai, Bennett in Lambert, Pin 
Polygonum Forsteri, Endl. = Muhlenbeckia appia Ts Lab. 
Senecio Reinoldi, Endl. (1836) — S. rotundifolius, Hook. fil. (1853). 
Senecio Georgii, Endl. = Brachyglottis repanda, Forst. 
One of the new Panax (P. longissimum, Hook. fil.) was described 
five years ago by Regel, of St. Petersburg, as P. coriaceum (‘Gar- 
tenflora, 1859, p. 45), and is doubtless nothing but a variety of 
Pseudopanax crassifolium. We have seen as many as twenty varie- 
ties raised by Continental nurserymen from seed produced by Pseudo- 
panax crassifolium. The authority for Meryta Sinclairii is Seemann, 
who several years ago published that name in the ‘Bonplandia.’ 
e should also have liked to see some notice taken of the changes 
that Planchon and C. Koch have proposed with regard to Cordyline. 
The general plan of the work is that adopted in Bentham's * Hong- 
kong Flora. It is written entirely in English, and there is an analy- 
tical key prefixed to the Natural Orders and genera extremely useful 
to the student. "The second part, containing the lower Cryptogams, is 
shortly to appear, and will enable us to return once more to this valu- 
able work. 
A Flora of Harrow. By J. C. Melvill. London: Longmans. 1864. 
* Magni sané erit "momenti si juvenes plantas sibi proximé natas 
observare vellent, tune enim spes esset ut historia plantarum generalis 
hujus insulæ reddatur absoluta, eujus utilitas bene cognita est." So 
says Blackstone in the preface to his * Catalogue of Harefield Plants,’ 
printed in 1737, which contained the names of no less than 524 
plants, many of them however only slight varieties, and which is the 
only other published local Flora for any part of the county of Middle- 
