314 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
it, as the localities follow one another without any regard to geographical 
order. The numerous misprints might be advantageously corrected. 
Bi Pi 
—_— 
Pollen. By M. Paxennam Evorworrn, F.L.S., F.A.S. Illustrated 
with 446 Figures. London: Hardwicke & Bogue. 1877. (8vo. 
Pp. 92, tab. 24.) : 
An explanation accompanies them, giving the size of each, and short 
descriptions. — 
Of the text of the book it is not necessary to say much. There 
memoirs of Purkinje, Naegeli, Luerssen (who are transformed into 
“*Purjinke,” ‘*Nagili,” and “ Luersen’”), Frizsche and others; and then 
follows a list of “plants of which the pollen has been described,” 
list is {very 
through it could at once add many other species. The whole is 
disfigured by a most 1 number of misprints, many of an extraor- 
dinary character (‘‘ Astilbe” for Astelia ‘* Anisogeisus” for Anigo- 
zanthus, “ Humirium” for Homalium and “ Corispermum”’ for Come- 
sperma are serious) ; indeed one can only suppose that the proof-sheets 
entirely escaped correction. at. 
London: Hardwicke & Bogue. 1877, (8vo. Pp. 450.) 
Tue second edition of this well-known and useful manual of cultivated 
erns has been brought up to the present time by the addition of an 
Appendix containing 226 species, nearly the whole of which have 
it has 
been corrected throughout. ems to have been taken to 
make the book complete, and it is without doubt the most accurate 
one of its kind in existen author’s lon Kew, 
to the opinions of our princi teridologists in this co hey 
‘Bran vcs Oy cg a. 
examination of species, and in 
