§22 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Index Kewensis Plantarum Phanerogamarum supplementum primum 
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Tue long delay in the sui latiead of the first supplement to the 
Index Kewensis is explained by M. Durand in the preface to the 
volume, which is issued with the latest and last part, in a way 
which must command sympathy and prevent criticism: it is due, 
would not have occurred,” and d exonerates M son 
any responsibility for these, and “ relies on ms ete of 
all those to whom this work will be of service.” inde ilgence 
will be readily extended, with a feeling of cankiianeas that by the 
completion of the work the index is brought down to the end of 
but it must be admitted that there is ground for its exercise, sid 
it is to be regretted that M. Durand, or whoever is responsible 
the actual production of the book, did not Lee expert help 
reading aint checking the proofs. Even the printer’s bie, 3 we 
think, “might have corrected “ Kuatze” (which we ao in the first 
column of the first page) into Kuntze, seeing that that name is 
inant y” times printed both before and after, and the reference is 
“1.¢.” On the same page the genus Pierrea is attributed to Hance, 
although the species are rightly ascribed to ma and both names 
are pasha by a period, indicating abbreviat: 
of course is largely due to the misdirected zeal of Dr. Otto Kuntze 
and his followers, who, as the editors of vis bg pen told us in 
the circular announcing its publication, s en circulation 
botany of the matter, and are thus merely useless encumbrances of 
nomenclature. Some, indeed, are the results of mere Noo co 
ee 
transference of Hria letophyila. Engler’s Pflanzenfamilien is 
sponsible for another series of wholesale transfers, dain act in this 
* See Journ. Bot. 1905, 275. 
