512 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
third part of vol. iv. has reached us. Useful as the work is, we 
cannot help regretting that more care is not taken both with the 
letterpress and the illustrations. The drawings are exceedingly 
rough and badly arranged, and rings ro suggest the habit of a 
living plant; no indication is given of the extent to which the 
details are enlarged ; and the iithogeapt ing is of the —— kind. 
The text, too, is “full of slight but irritating errors which m ght be 
obviated by a very little care; for exa ample, the sign of abbrevia- 
tion is usually omitted from such names as ‘‘ EK. Mey,” ‘* Hook,’ 
urch”; we get such phrases as ‘‘ Sub. S [opubia] Simplex” ; 
som careless references as ‘‘ Eng. Bot. Jahr., p. 84.’ There is 
also an absence of original descriptions where they might be 
expected—e. g., the account of Ceratotheca triloba, de scribed as 
‘* common in the coast and midland districts,’’ is ‘ copied verbatim 
from the Botan ical Magazine.’”’ We cannot feel that Mr. Wood 
has made the aat of his opportunities 
Tue costly and a Hiiaer ihe Plantarum Europe 
Rariorum, by M. G. Rouy, has come to an end with its twentieth 
fascicle. The work, which eek in 1895, contains 500 plates, 
reproduced in photography from ‘‘ des exemplaires existant dans les 
grandes collections botaniques et notamment dans |’Herbier Rouy.” 
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‘* Herb. Rouy’’ and no doubt in the author’s Flore de France; thus 
the plates of Centaurea hybrida All., Bellium minutum L., and the 
like, can hardly be regarded as ty ypical of what their 9 
intended, although doubtless in all such cases due care has been 
en in ing. We think it should have been possible to have 
added dissections in the case of critical species, and that good 
drawings including these details would n more useful 
less costly than the mounted photographs, and would certainly have 
more convenient for reference. ‘The text does not indicate 
from which locality, when, as often, more than one is given, the 
specimen | was taken ; and there is no general index arranged 
under orders, which would have been useful, as each fascicle is 
independently arranged. 
Tue concluding part of the Flora der Pere by Prof. Schinz 
and Dr. Keller (Ranstein, Ziirich: price 6 marks), of which the 
first instalment was noticed on p. 192, contains the * Si tische 
Flora” of the country, and is evidently do done with much care. Just 
over a third of the book, the descriptive sisridbi of which c dlesirpion 
849 pages, is devoted to Hieracium—a genus which will soon 
become entirely unw: nae OE through its excessive elaboration ; Rosa 
en pages, Rubus ten. Alchemilla, in which Prof. Buser is 
garis as a speci to have disappeared, the name can 
hardly be allowed to drop out altogether. There is an ole 
ral index to the volumes, which is so a 
rrang 
render conspicuous the very large number of varieties ep ‘ 
in the work, 
