150 THE NEW ‘ INDEX OF PLANT-NAMES.’ 
to few, and the reason is undoubtedly to be fone in the diese 
modesty which marked the character of this type of what is best in 
a lover of Nature and a true worker in Natural History. 
A list of the papers published by Broome himself and in associ- 
ation with the Rev. M. J. Berkeley is appended. It Rise be seen 
a 
for the advancement of science. His herbarium of Fungi, with part 
of his library, has been bequeathed to a British Muuseum, one 
estimated to contain about forty thousand specimens. The 
in x aba’ condition, and the Dachaliseigit notes and deterciinaens 
roome’s own hand, give them a very high val 
Suc Murray. 
By Mr. C. E. Broome. 
is a ig be of a New Species of Melanogaster. (Ann. Nat. 
is 
The Fong, ‘of Nadoaataul ( Wilts ari viii. 1864). 
marks on a cently discovered stile ies of Myxogaster : 
obi dels boon (Brit. Assoc. Rep. xxx 
roderma Geaster Fr., a New British Fungus. (Journ. Bot. 
iz; 1871. ) 
Remarks on some of the Fungi met with in the Neighbourhood 
of Bath. (Bath Nat. Hist. Club Proc. 1870, 1871, 1879, 1883.) 
e Myxogastres: their Position in the Natural System. 
(Mier. Soc. Bath, 1878.) 
By Mr. C. E. Broome with Rev. M. J. Berxeey. 
_ Notices of British Fungi. (Jardine Mag. Zool. & Bot. 1837; 
Ann. & — - Nat. Hist. 1838-1883, 26 parts, vobabii to 2027.) 
On some Sigua of the Genus Agaricus from Ceylon [1868] . 
Cote F f C He J B 1 
ungi of Ce on. Linn. Soe. n. (Bot.) xi. 1871; xiv. 
1875; xv. 1877.) y. ( oc. Journ. ( ) xi Xiv. 
List of Fungi from Brisbane, Queensland; with canny bo 
ie oe Spode (2 parts). (Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. ii. vols. i 
THE NEW ‘INDEX OF PLANT-NAMES.’ 
By B. Daypon Jackson, Sec. L.S. 
(Coneluded from p. 71.) 
Ir having been brought to my notice that the article on the new 
“Index” of Plant-names in this Journal for Februar ry = has - 
given rise to some misconception as to the origin of that 
