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and other early authors seems to show that here (and no doubt 
elsewhere) a revision of the genus is nsheihns eos igs fh hjareae in'the © 
body of the work were referred to Panicum being no 
Digitaria ; but it seems to us that this can only restdlt i in 'southeton, 
and it nerrgread should not be attempted without’ any warning 
of what is being done. An example of carelessness in proof- 
reading hag ts found on p. 2, where ‘“ Acetosella Rupp. = Rumex 
inn. _eiwarny is followed by two species, each of which is 
referred to O 
But the aoe serious defect of the Supplement lies in its omis- 
sions. We have not tested how other journals may have been ex- 
amined, but, so far as the Journal of Botany is concerned, the work 
has been very perfunctory. For example, the transferences i in Mr. 
Schlechter’s *‘ Revision of South African Asclepiadacew ” (Journ. Bot. 
sixty-four names sone Asclepias alone, to say nothing of those under 
other genera. Nor is this the only paper omitted; without any 
attempt at an perioral examination, we note the following, none 
of which find as in the Supplement :— 
Aristea pa ra Dod . Journ. Bot. 1900, 171 
Asarum ‘Shutlovort Britten & Baker oe - 1898, 98 
Crassula Aitoni Brit Baker f. ree’ s 1897, 480 
rve yi Br itten & Baker f, ise ” ” 479 
Crocodilodes Zeyheri S. Moo: n es ‘ 1900, 160 
Detris fascicularis 3A Mbcte ee 159 
» simulans §. Moore... } og —o 
» . tene ROS oe Ps 1899, 370 
Epidendroides tetrandra Sol. . . : 7 1897, 192 
Eriocaulon Brunonis Britten .°. . . . ae 1900, 482 
Koernickei Britten . .. . a 4) 401 
Fagelia plantaginea S. Moore... . fe » 461 
Felicia barbata Schlechter. . ... . es 1898, 875 
»  Natalensis Schlechter heed . 1897, 220 
Impatiens tapro Hier <*% a 1900, 88 
“percater Dyeri Britten aa - 1897, 453 
ors 
es mnaeropetaam Schlechter . et 1899, 62 
chlec : 
an sah phyllum Schlechter 
any of these names are of course ranalerenne’, and liable to 
be seca by the casual reader; but i strange that the 
** Curatores Herbarii Kewensis’’ who have Boi feito, with this 
sence work should not have taken note of them. We trust that 
ex uno disce omnes does not apply in cae case, and that other 
periodicals have been more eadentely te 
It would not be difficult to find Firihes material for criticism, 
by Mr, Jase n in the isha work. 
