342 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
The he of capes gee By Rup oi mas Vol iv. 
Monocotyledon London: Wm. weil & Son. Cape 
“seat Darter Bios. & Co. Price a Os. ne 
TuHE first volume of this work was noticed in this Journal for 
tion of those Ae coe with the result that oe Monooatyodone 
are now given to the world. This, of course, is no drawback to 
the work’s sisbtlis ess, the Monocotyledones iets quite distinct 
from the other plants; indeed they could, without impropriety, 
have been made the subject of a separate treatise, and one o 
surpassing interest to the lover of beautiful flowers, seeing that 
the Orchidaceae, Iridacea, and Liliacee, families for the loveliness 
of whose flowers the Cape i is so celebrated, would be included in it. 
Our former notice explained eo admirable plan upon which Dr. 
Marloth was working, and the volume under notice is at least upon 
a level with its predecessor. We have the same carefully compiled 
lavis of genera, the “en excellent judgement in selecting examples 
for sTiistretic by w nd bru d similar useful notes on 
points of structure Ma lite history. Special ‘seine n may be made 
of the optical phenomena concerned in the ean: of the 
colour of certain flowers; of the power of plants to regulate the 
depth of their subterranean organs; of the arrangement of the 
vascular bundles in the leaves of Tridacea : of the symbiosis of 
Rhizoctonia with orchid seeds. Nor should the lavishly illustrated 
account of the genus Aloe, including the manufacture of Cape 
aloes from A. ferox, a subject very fully treated, be left unnoticed. 
As gerbe the popular names, both English and Dutch, are in every 
case give 
The sHiiabeat tok while naturally not so bizarre—with the 
exception of Strelitzia—as were those of vol i., have afforded more 
favourable dares for the artists employed in producing the plates, 
man ich are a perfect feast of colour. he numerous 
enedbinied: plates, too, are beautiful examples of their kind, and 
those showing the plants in their natural habitats will be 
appreciated by students of ecolo 
Dr. Stapf has revised the grasses, and other experts have 
helped i in connection with special families. The system adopted 
is, as before, that of mene while a Flora Capensis has been 
mainly followed in the arrangement of the genera. With its 
forty-two coloured and sighibaet recreates plates and numerous 
inset figures this work deserves and is hereby offered our hearty 
congratulations. S M 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ée. 
vip Tuomas GwyNNE-VauGHAN died on September 4th at 
the comparatively early age of forty-four. bate at Llandovery in 
1871, h s educated at Monmouth School and then went up 
to Gambridge as a scholar of Christ's College. On leaving 
