288 BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC, 
arson, 8, The Polygon, Eccles, is preparing a 
work on British Hepatice, and will be glad to receive records 
additional to those given in the London Catalogue (1881). 
Tue Kew Bulletin for J uly contains several descriptions of new 
plants, including a decade of orchids, various economical notes, and 
a list of distinguished persons who attended “a large garden party” 
given in ‘the reserve part of the Royal Gardens” by the First 
Commissioner of Works. 
Pror. E. L. Greens tells us, in Hrythea for August, that ‘Part i. 
of the Indew Kewensis, dealing with the nomenclature of all known 
flowering plants, has just been issued in London. It had been 
confided that such a work was in progress at the Kew Herbarium 
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cation of Mr. Jackson’s great work, with the progress of which the 
b inte 
large number of whic by no means familiar—such as 
“‘tephrosius—of an ash-grey colour’’; syno 10n—synonym for 
carcerulus” “rhodoleucus, a combination of r white”’; 
“obligate, necessary, essential.”’ Some definitions require correction, 
as “im ractus, roken synonym for in ‘ hilaris, 
belonging to the hilum ” and there are various matters which one 
deaux mixture,” and the like. u 
useful matter, and no doubt the next-edition will be an improvement 
We have not yet been able to ascertain any particulars of the 
death of Mrs. John Pearless, which took lace, we i 
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Bonavia on the “ Antiquity of the Citron-tree in Egypt,” and “othér 
essays principally of horticultural interest. The Journal in its 
present form reflects great credit upon Messrs. Wilks and Weathers 
the Secretary and Assistant-Secretary of the Society, 
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