378 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Handbook of the Ferns of Queensland. By ¥F.M. Bamzy. With 
twenty-two plates illustrative of the genera by H. E. Eaton. 
Brisbane : Thorne and Greenwell, 1874. (8vo, pp. 72.) 
This little work is very creditable, both to the author and to the 
colonial artist and printer, and we welcome, as a mark how a taste for 
botany is spreading in our colonies, the fact that within a short time, 
special handbooks of the Ferns of three of them, Natal, Ceylon, and 
now Queensland, have bee ished by residents who have 
. Brown in 1810, that all that has been left for those that have followed 
has been to add in the new discoveries, and describe the species in 
many that have been written during the last sixty years in which the 
ustr _Species have not received their full share of attention. 
However, if not well versed in the literature of his subject, Mr. 
Queensland species, L. tr ipartita, Sw., L. Milneana, Baker, and L. 
vespertilionis, Pres. A plant was named Pteris vespertilionis ,by 
+h uf ia. Another 
plant was named Pteris tripartita by Swartz, and this was also 
Presl., or Z. tripartita (Sw., us Pteris), aud L. vespertilion’s (Labill. 
as Pteris). In both the cases, however, tere are older specific names 
