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SOME BOOKS ON GRASSES. 187 
the arrangement of genera and species and the botanical deserip- 
tions he copies Bentham’s Flora Australiensis. Reference is made 
previous figures of the species, though somewhat coors ren 
only the name of the author or publication is cited— 
“ a nee A wig aghoremer Gazette,” Bailey.” The * list of vor 
consulted ’’ (pp oo) will supply the missing titles; but me 8 
of volume pts or plate, should also hav e been 
twenty plates inelnded ' in the volume give a fair idea of the habit of 
as g 
comb-like wheat-grass,’’ which, by the way, is printed ‘* wheat- 
Fern” in the plate. Another bibliogeaphioal error is the spelling of 
sips specific names with small letters; thus we find Panicu 
galli, P. helopus, Cynodon dactylon, though the cagitel 3 is ada in in 
a cane of personal names, e.g. Browniit, Munroi. Apart from 
these matters of detail, the book forms a well-arranged and useful 
manual, and will prove a serviceable handbook to those interested 
in the grasses of the pag Ae either from a purely botanical or from 
an agricultural point of v 
Part vi. of Drs. os ye Graebner’s Synopsis contains the 
conclusion of vol. i. (pp. 415), comprising the completion of 
Hydrocharidee and the Pie, with title-page, author's preface, and 
dedicatio n to ‘‘ Ihrem Freunde und Génner Georg Schweinfurth.” 
(pp. 65-144) are occupied with the Grasses, and include the 
greater part of the order. Their arrangement differs somewhat 
and from the more reoenis one adopted by Hackel in Engle r’s and 
Prantl’s Pflanzenfamilien. Thus, while accepting Bentham’s two 
great subfamilies, Prmcrarat and Poavidee, the authors have 
adopted a somewhat different arrangement of the individual tribes. 
Panicee contains the following —(1) Coleanthee ; (2) Oryze@ ; (8) 
Phalaridea ; (4) — (5) Maydee ; (6) rete and (7) 
Pani ribes 1 d Hacke 
in the second set. Dalianthes contains the oa aires "Coleaniahas 
Seidl., which, by the way, must give place to Antoschmidtia Steud. 
oth } in i 
Grasses recently adopted by Dr. Stapf. The second subfamily 
comprises nine cree viz. ett Chloride@ ; (2) Stupee ; ies Nardee ; 
(4) Samy Bg ; (6) ia at (7) Aru ange (8) 
ge aml e. Stupee i is from Stupa, a form pell- 
ing oo at tee = Dr. Ascherson in 1864, in his Hekodaahaee Tors, 
e ground that Stipa, the name given to the — by po 
s nonclassical. Classical or not, Stipa must stand ; note, 
eaetic, that Dr. Smith, in his well-known Latin Dictionary, gives 
under Stuppa, also Stupa and Stipa, A similar change, on etymo- 
logical but insupportable grounds, is Dinaeba Delil., “etsigh is 
