eee BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETO. 
unconscious of any other meaning which can be attached to our 
action: and, so far from the cryptogamists ‘‘getting too many” for 
us, we shall ‘be glad to welcome more of them as contributors to 
our pages 
AN xitioliel’ well printed =m handy Check-list of the Plants of 
Gray’s Manual, compiled by John A, Allen, has just been 
issued by the Herbarium of ‘aevad University. An appendix is 
given, “in which an attempt has been made to enumerate the 
additional plants found within the limits of the Manual since the 
issue of the sixth edition.’’ The names of introduced pee are 
printed in italics, and we are thus enabled to see at a glance how 
largely adventive species contribute to make up the present North 
ican flor 
x se ee we have ever seen—and our orp ane is 
large—is that issued for vol. xxi. of Grevillea, in its June numb 
It is mainly arranged according to the specific names, the genera 
to which these belong being printed after them, sometimes in full, 
sometimes in a shortened form. Here are the first six entries :— 
‘‘abortivens (Agar.) icolum (Cenangium) 
acacize rapes acca [sic] ics ata (Agar 
acacia (Triphrag.) adequata (Inocybe). . 
If there is : bia chathod ere Ss than re we should be glad 
to know o But this i all. Mixed up with these are aad 
names (ene, not apecific) of Bates whose papaes are noticed— 
an explanation which we discover for ourselves, as none is given 
in the index: thus :— 
“‘brachypoda Sey ) brunneo-pictus (Agar.) 
thw. Buffham 
Braithwaite, R., M.D mi (Gommophyllum) [sic] 
brevis (Batoead es) Buffham, T. H.” 
Those who wish to look up contributions to any one genus can only 
do so by hunting through the whole list of names. After eight 
pages of this kind of thing comes “ original articles,” the titles of 
which are given in — the form and order in which they 
appear in the Magazine: so that -‘* New or critical British Fungi, 
G. Massee,” is atiiod: pele and so throughout. There is no list 
of contributors, of books reviewed, of papers Fein nuthin even se 
show whereabouts the various branches of eryptogam 
ound. Moreover, the index of species, such as ~ is, is ridienloualy 
als 
incomplete, even nov velties being omitted; it i so inaccurate, 
and has abundant misprints. Itea en on nly fitly ‘ described by one 
of the ee it contains—* asininus.”’ 
College, will t sed gain much information from th 
books,” if the devoted “outline classification of th 
Vegetable Kingdom” is to be taken as typic is a bare 
enumeration of the names of orders, occupies (title and blanks 
included) sixteen pages, and costs ate ara? — sine 
any possible use bey it can serve in connection with th m, 
nor can we imagine that the sale will cover Aaa cost of srodualial 
slight as that oat tae been. 
