BOTANICAL NEWS. 349 
_ In calling attention to a few errors, it is proper to also allude to the 
innumerable ones of the previous edition which have been corrected in 
this. Those that remain are not of any very great importance. Lichens 
cannot be said to have “an evanescent and short existence” (p. 237); 
Mosses are not Thallogens; nor Juncaceæ, Glumales (p.295). The 
sheaths of Cyperaeeze are said (p. 295) to be “ nerve-slit,” which is, per- 
i ‘aus communis can scarcely be called a 
ps a misprint for never. Ricin 
tree (p. 162, ete.). We should know little of the flora of Spitzbergen, 
alluded to at pp. 299 and 574, if it were true (p. 274) that 70° was 
*. . - are 
lived in the present century, not “the commencement of the eighteenth ” 
(p. 511); the binominal “nomenclature was not introduced by Linnzus 
till 1753 (p. 213); Tournefort's cannot be allowed to be “ the first known 
system" when Czesalpinus published his just a century before. Other 
slight oversights of this kind might be pointed out. 
It is the illustrations that make the book. I 
their original delicacy they are still admirable. 
in the original French edition are wanting, but í 
other sources. By the kind permission of the publishers some specimens 
of these excellent woodcuts accompany this notice. H. T. 
Botanical Hews. 
We are glad to be able to state that the whole question between the 
Director of Kew Gardens and the First Commissioner of age 
been practically settled on the basis of the Treasury Minute of July £^ 
printed at the end of the Official Blue-book, of which the following. | 
much devoted to botanical purposes as any other Nh 
Les in fact, the great Temperate House is contar 
limits. 
