186 THE JOURNAL OF THE KEW GUILD. 
L. should be added Greenland! St. Lucia! Guatemala! Panama! 
and Brit. Honduras!. 
page 52, Dr. Morong raises ‘‘ P. pectinatus ? latifolius Rob- 
bins”’ to specific rank, but this is untenable, ‘ i 
overlooked the prior var. latifolius of Meyer (Chlor. Hann. (1886) ). 
here is a specimen of this rare form in the Brit. Mus. Herb. from 
‘Springs, Huachanca Mountains, Sept. 1882, J. G. Lemmon and 
wife.” 
” 
Dr. Morong has overlooked the record of Prof. Macoun as to 
P, Robbinsti “ fruiting in the Somas River at Albania, on the west 
P. K. ‘* Mexico’; nor of P. 
vaginatus Turez. ‘‘ Saskatchewan, Bourgeau, 1858” (Kihiman in Bot. 
Notiser); it also oceurs at Buffalo Lake, lat. 56°, Macoun ! 
References to old American authors are almost wanting; and 
no list is given of the undecided published names. The fifty plates 
between the various species. This notice is now too long to allow o 
entering into the specific rank of some of the forms raised to species 
by Dr. Morong. Artuur Bennett. 
The Journal of the Kew Guild, an Association of Kew Gardeners, past 
and present. May, 1898. 8vo, pp. 57. 
Tue idea of forming a Gild for Kew gardeners, past and 
present, 1s an excellent one, and can hardly fail to commend itself 
not only to those for whom it is more especially intended, but to 
whom a not very pleasing portrait appears as the frontispiece to the 
Journal, has done well to encourage the formation of the Kew Gild. 
or its Journ 
From the Journal (which is to be issued annually on the Ist of 
May), we learn particulars of the numerous opportunities for 
: ; 
out and revised by the lecturers. There is a Mutual Improvement 
Society, now twenty years old, which meets weekly in the Garden 
