48 - BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 
-are duly taken up, and are sometimes referred: to species other than 
those to which ned have been assigned—e. g. “ Sawifraga rivularis 
Townson non L.” 
four Hieracia, and new nam 
M. Bieb. non L. ; these, we think, shou q 
by a Latin diagnosis. The book is clearly one which will repay © 
‘careful investig: zation. The vernacular names, which look very odd 3 
to vee sh eyes, are very fully given. 4 
Mr. J. G. Baxer, who retires from the Keepership of the Kew 7 
Hachariatt on the 12th of this month, will be succeeded by Mr. ~ 
W. B. Hemsley. ” 
We are glad to see that the capes: Bask of Mr. Fryer’s Mono- : 
graph of British Potamogetons has a red. . 
A new part (the 24th) of M. ‘gens Flore Horentites de la” 
Cochinchine as been issued, bear ing the date Sept. 1, 1898. tt 
tai i : 
or dcsigt the nam e Buchanania i is printed throughout Buchaniana — 
—a form. hitherto wf et s 
We ae received sate fret part of what will evidently be an 
mportant work—Symbole Antillane, “seu Fundamenta Flore 
Tai Occidentalis,” by Prof. Urban (Berlin, Borntendiis 8v0, 
pp. 192, price 10m.80). This instalment i is devoted to the biblio- 
graphy of the subject, and is very carefully and exhaustively done 
—indeed it seems to us almost overdone, so fal is the information 
YEAR ago we obits the first volume of a Botanisches Bilder- “4 
buch fiir Jung und Alt, by Franz Bley, and we now receive from - 
the publisher (Gustav Schmidt, Berlin) the bee abe cal 
containing the plants to be met with from June to September As 
tions makes its 
Tue third part of ae Hiern’s Catalogue of the Nelo 
Collec ts appearance as we are going to 
hope to say something abot iin out next issue, Ae ease, 
