112 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY . 
many of the Sant, and not absent from some of the older, 
American botanists. 
as to the horticulturist. Mr. Boulger has an extremely interesting 
paper on ‘‘ The Preservation of Wild Plants,’ from which we hope 
at a later date to give some extracts; Dr. M. ooke writes on 
‘“ Fungoid Pests of Foreign Trees,” his paper iis illustrated by 
three coloured plates; Mr. BE. §. Salmon has an illustrated account 
f : i 
tions in no way connected with the text. The traditional Irish 
adage, ‘‘ Whenever you see a head, hit it,” seems to have as an 
analogue at the Horticultural Society, ** Wherever ‘you see a space, 
fill it.” The result is at times amusing and ee inappropriate ; 
the fact that none of the ents are named de 
possible usefulness. We have a sidpletbtr Haak in these days of 
puzzle-competition, the Society has somewhere offer ed a prize to 
Tan ie of the Société Reng de France has issued as an 
appendix to its fifty-first volume of nea rly four hundred pages a 
catalogue of the Hortus Vilmorianus, drawn by M. Philippe 
‘L. de Vilmorin, vi Society; 
Sidi resting, seems little more than a glorified catalogue, an im- 
pression stvenpibened by the numerous cuts in the text, some of 
whic aspect. 
_ Tae —— for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, in which 
ir George King now has the assistance of Mr. J. S. Gamble, makes ~ 
selaiks ioral nos. 16-18 having recently—we think each should 
bear the date of its publication—been issued. They contain plants 
of the orders (in the Bentham-and-Hooker sequence) Rubiaceae to 
Sesamee, and include a large number of new species; the descrip- 
tions oe are very full. 
Vou. iv. Sect. 2, part ii. of the Flora o of T opica 
the cviteaiad of the Convolvulacee, by Mr. che : 
Rendle ; the Solanaceae, by Mr. C. H. Wright; soon Somer siete part 
of the Scrophulariacee, by Messrs, Hemsley and Skan 
ica Africa pect 
