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G. Lindau for drawing my attention to these points. — Ernest §. 
SaLmon. 
‘Inpex Keweysis SuppLementum II.”—A Kew correspondent — 
not one of the “ viri versatores’’ whom we, with inexcusable care- 
lessness, dubbed ‘‘ vires ’’—points out that four of the names which 
pp. rk 
are really included in it, as well as nearly a third of the sixty-four 
transferred species of Asclepias, which had been published by Mr. 
This ; 
Schlechter earlier than his list in this Journal. ue, and 
we regret our error. Certain other explanations, such as the 
occurrence of names ‘in the middle o »’ seem to us 
less tenable ; for it is surely the function of the Index to take up 
names which are likely to be overlooked. On the other hand, 
further use of the Supplementum II has confirmed our impression 
as to its insufficiency; for example, the reduction (Bull. Herb. 
Boiss. vi. 562) of several of the species published by Klatt in an 
earlier volume has been overlooked, an att’s names (save in one 
instance) appear unreduced. Hermstadtia Welwitschii Baker in 
Kew Bull. 1897, 278, is retained (with the spelling of the generic 
as 
for 1897, p. 
Welwitsch number, was published seven years earlier ; moreover 
editor’s eye; others armeriifolius (for armeriafolius) 
‘aria nardine (for nardina), Arabis graciliceps (for graci apes), 
and the like. B ave no intention of disparaging a wor 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Monographie du Genre Onothera. Par Monseigneur H. Livers, 
a collaboration de M. Cu. Gurrroy. Fascicule I., 1902, 
42 planches, pp. 138. Fascicule II., 1905, pp. 119. 8yo, 
e Mans: Maison Monnoyer. 
Two parts of this somewhat eccentric monograph have lately 
reached us; the third part, which we are told will be equal in size 
