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1713. The “Painted Lady” variety was grown in England at 
least as far back as 1754, as well as a white-flowered variety. 
“ Plunkenet”’ for Plukenet and tieaonnca te for Prodromus should 
be poinncwten in any future editio 
e already called italien to the handsome serial 
Bedutiful Flowers, which is in course of publication in monthly 
s 
the work, the first volume of which is now eee fully 
justifies the opinion we formed from the earlier numbers. It 
appeals of course to the horticulturist rather than to the notasiiits 
but many of our readers combine the two aspects of plant-study 
in their own persons, and to them we gladly nian te book. 
Miss Fortescue Brickdale’s studies of individual flow m 
us tna ee charming; we should be glad if Einee tears more 
of thes 
A RECENT number of the “additional series” (viii.) of the ines 
Bulletin is devoted to “ New Genera and Species of Cyperace 
by the late C. B. Clarke. In a prefatory note Dr. Prain ives 
e 
pages, contains the author’s diagnoses of all the new poriera 
and species described therein, and will thus provide with descrip- 
tions the numerous MSS. names written by Clarke in the herbaria 
in which he worke 4 
Dr. Turopore Cooks is to be congratulated on the completion 
of his Flora of the Presidency of Bombay, which has been brought 
to a close within the not unreasonable period of pein years. 
to all who are conversant with botanical bir hades ; we think, 
however, it would have been an advantage to many if there had 
been added something like the treatise on elementary botany which 
prefaces the Kew Floras. An account of the scheme of the work 
from the pen of Sir George King, whose recent loss we have to 
deplore, will be found in our volume for 1901 92. 
THE usefulness of the Guide to the Prick Mycetozoa pub- 
lished by the Trustees of the British Museum is evidenced by the 
i j issued. This editio 
associated with her father in his work on the family. The very 
ow price—3d.—of the work renders it accessible to i and the 
forty-eight figures add to the usefulness of the letterpre 
Tue Linnean Society has brought out a neat Talat which 
will serve as an appropriate souvenir of the proceedings in con- 
nection with its Darwin- Wallace Celebration of 1908, July 1, 1908. 
It was at a meeting of Society held on July 1 exactly fifty 
years before that Char fe alee and Alfred Russel Wallace 
i having independently pect see to one another conceived 
the same very ingenious theory % account for the appearance and 
