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with extinction by greedy collectors. — Frepericxk J. Hansury; 
Epwarp 8S. Marsuatz. 
Hieractum Friesn Htn. var. prosum.—I suggest this as a name 
for the variety described by me under H. Friesii var. hirsutwn 
(Journ. Bot, 1892, p. 869), and I regret that I overlooked the fact 
of the latter varietal name having already been employed by Hart- 
mann for a different plant.—Frepericx J. Hanpury, 
NOTICES OF BOOKS, 
Handbook of the Iridea, By J. G. Baker. London: George 
Bell & Sons. 1892. 8vo, pp. xii. 247. Price 7s. 6d. 
and pen, will not Mr. Baker give us a monograph or handbook of 
the Scitaminea, to supersede the somewhat incomplete and unwieldy 
revision of Horaninow ? 
The arrangement in tribes and genera adopted in the work 
before us is practically identical with that followed in Bentham and 
Hooker’s Genera Plantarum. Tri ée I., Morea, contains the large 
Segments of the perianth. In separating Morea from Iris the author 
olows Bentham, and makes geographical distribution a factor, Iris 
from Tigridia, on account of its campanulate perianth, the sub- 
stitution of Sweet’s name Herbertia for Bentham’s Alophia 
former claiming priority, while the small Cape genus, Hexaglottis, 
is no longer stigmatised as a ‘genus anomalum.” 
ribe IL., Sisyrinchiea, differs from the first in having the style- 
branches alternating with the anthers. Ii is subdivided into four sub- 
tribes :—the Crrocee, with a bulb or corm, and one-flowered spathes; 
