116 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
one who has often distributed two or three thousand sheets in a 
year could not possibly use them all. And I think that nobo dy, 
even if he devoted the whole of his time to botanical pursuits, 
would be able = Prose out all the author’s instructions. Non 
— possumus 
wo Supplements to ory Index Kewensis have appeared since 
1895, bringing it down 05. 
In con nelusion, I wish to insist very strongly on this point 
there is no groun for quarrel between ordinary sollentors 
matter” in him; if he will use simpler language and refrain from 
being unduly combative, we may hope for better products of his pen. 
Epwarp 8. MARsHALL. 
Flora bk conan events Descriptions of the Flowering Plants 
n from Island. By Witu1am Fawcett, “7 
- L. Ss. and Pion Barton REenpbize, D.Sc., F.R.S. Vol. iii. 
Piperacee to Connaracex. 8vo, cloth, pp. xxiv.280. With 
113 text ilhasteabionls and 5 plates. Trustees of the British 
Museum: Longmans, &e. 1914. 1 
THE first volume of this work, , SeoNe the Orchidacex, was 
noticed in this Journal for 1911 (p. 172); the second volume, 
which will complete the Monocotyledons, i is cae so that the 
present, although numbered vol. iii., is the second in point of 
issue. The general plan of the work was indicated in the review 
indicated above, but the present volume gers in certain par- 
ticulars from that ten noticed—notably in the insertion in 2 
text of small but very useful figures fiasteating each gen 
This is a "egunttiendable Hihovation upon the plan eamclos adopted 
in colonial floras, my greatly adds to their usefulne 
he arrangement of the orders, thirty-eight in utah, is that 
of Engler and Sich: this no doubt is wise, as that arrangement 
“Bentham and Hooker” school it is somewhat puzzling to find 
Cary york race eroneey by Nympheacee, and Ceratophyllacee 
occupying a position between that and Ranunculacee. An 
excellent ‘ conspectus of families,” however, helps to make this 
intelligible; there is also a ‘‘key”’ in which the families are 
indicated by their numbers think their names should also 
we 
have been given, so as to avoid the trouble of turning to the 
conspectus. The extensive list of ‘works referred to in the text” 
shows that the literature bearing on the Flora has been exhaus- 
tively investigated. In the preface special mention is made of the 
collections of Arthur Broughton made in 1783-96 and of the very 
interesting series of drawings (1761-69) of the Rev. John Lindsay, 
of whom and of another hotantit who has been confused with him 
Dr. Rendle gives some account in our prebeht issue (p. 104): 
these were lent by the Bristol Museum, where they are deposited. 
Glancing through the pages, one notes the preeminence: of 
