BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 1838 
panied by an excellent portrait. Flora and Sylva, the handsomest 
of Pe gardening periodicals, will henceforth be issued in yearly 
yolum 
FasciciEs vii. viii. of Herr C. Christensen’s Index Filicum 
gen: Hagerup, 1906, pp. 885-512) were published in 
February and April vomnoiala: and advance the Salphabetiell 
enumeration of s pene ane synonyms from Leptochilus decurrens to 
Polypodium ee We must call the author’s ~— to 
an omissio: "496. He refers Platycerium biforme Bl. as a 
synonym to P.¢ coronarium, but omits the latter species in ese 
In last year’s Journal (p. 163) we favourably reviewed Prof. de 
Vries’s series of American lectures, issued in book-form under the 
title of Species and Varieties: their Origin i Mutation. It is not 
surprising that within the space of fourteen months another edition 
has been called for. prger including a portrait of the author Hes 
p ractically a reprint, with correction of a fow typographical wknd, 
tion which has been a ene to his work in scientific circles, both 
in Europe and North Americ 
Tue publication of the Kew » Bulletin proceeds apace. ‘No. 1,” 
for 1902, price 2d., wig aoe about the end of March; this is the 
volume for the year, occupying twenty-six pages (with index and 
title). It contains one of the late Director's prefaces, without which 
nd such useful information as the 
umber of visitors to the Gardens in 1901, and certain appointments 
mai e are interesting articles on the f f Gin 
seng by . Burkill, and on Khasia Patcho y es Prain ; the 
the copy before us states that ‘‘The Bentham Tekstene irgsonctd 
ae free of cost, a limited number of copies of the p 
This now exhausted.” Surely the authorities might has 
affo rded to print more ‘‘ copies,” rather than send out an incom- 
plete w orl ? The volumes for 1903 and 1904 each consist of a 
‘ No. 1,” the former costing 3d. and the latter 2d.; each contains 
a sohesiarbte amount of out-of-date information, most of it, it 
would seem, of little or no possible use. ‘‘ No. 3”’ for 1905 con- 
cludes that volume, so that the bibliography of this eccentric 
vitality” of the Bulletin was due ‘ the ‘abit of the Director, 
on sted “s ‘‘ the continual encroachment of administrative and 
official work, to give the necessary time to its preparation ” 
(incidentally) mp that no one else could be found capable of 
dertaking task. ‘‘It is now proposed to issue the ay’ ae 
ciatiee on Sere he one or more numbers for each year "and it 
tribute to the energy of the new Director that two numbers for 1906 
have already appeared. The first of these we noticed on page 1 137 5 
