REPORT OF THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB 115 
them in the pages of this Report. The increase is in part due to 
the addition to our lists of forms separable from the type only 
by characters of infinitesimal value, the differentiation of which 
must be to a large extent matter of opinion. good deal of space 
is, to our mind, wasted in the discussion of trivial or personal 
matters—for example, the note on Matricaria suaveolens, where 
Mr. Druce and Mr. Riddelsdell discuss whether this is worth 
sending to the Club, and Dr. Vigurs’s note on F'wmaria occidentalis. 
e number of long communications, sometimes occupyin 
several Pages, in ee: ; we should have thought that these 
would be more useful, as being ae available for reference and dis- 
cussion, oaks they es ey in this or in some other journ e 
rt appears under the name of Mr. W. Bell “ Boe and dis- 
m 
obituaries, is by Mr. Druce. That indefatigable gene also con- 
tions to the British Plant List,” z.e., Mr. Druce’s List of British 
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appears to us, is entirely out of place, and, as it stands, is even 
meaningless; it implies the possession of a etd of the List, 
Sathout which it is unintelligible; here is a specim 
“474 bis G. collinwm Steph. Eur. or. [Wilts]. 
478 x Ro tee 
494 minor Rouy & 
genus 123 bis ROTA [Tourn.]. L. Sp. Pl. 
514 bis graveolens L. Eur. eioae 
529 bis L. linifolius Roth. Eur. mer. [Leith]. 
561 bis T. radiata Boiss. ine! [Yo rks. } a = Pocockia)” 
and so on for four pages. Whether Mr. Druce is justified in thus 
making use of the Report is of course a matter of opinion, and if 
Taito and the Club do not “— probably no one has a right to 
omplain ; but it is a farce to call such a list one of “ desiderata,” 
socmating as it does largely of corrections and comments upon a 
work in which the Club is in no way concerned. That even here 
ne Druce finds an opportunity for Re pies of new combina- 
ns will surprise no one who knows his energy in that direc- 
2 The Haast itself, although oe edited by Mr. Bell, is 
annotated paises by Mr. Druce, who incidentally discusses 
points of nomenclature, and answers comments that have been 
ad. 
pris the Seal is cs pete ive, pray are fewer para- 
graphs than usual which are a em general interest for 
tion. t f the er notices we may, pa 
quotation. One or two 0: ng ) ay, | 
