INDEX TO THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE 3868 
—compilation was a crea si accuracy and erudition com- 
pared with the Index now befor 
o enter into detail, ail Sains api oted in synonymy, ineluding 
pre-Linnean ones, are cited exactly as they stand, so that under 
** Arbor,” ‘Flos,’ and the like, we have lists ae as the fol- 
lowing :— 
‘¢ Arbor Africana Arbor one Rhamni 
mericana fraxini folio 
baccifera Javanensis 
calapoides sinensis 
corni lactaria 
cucurbitifera Americana mexicana 
finium ua ndorum ragoe Amboinensis 
flore lut sinensis. 
Equally strange names appear under accepted genera—e. g. :— 
* Atractylis foliis cartaligineis Atractylis oo et 
Fusus agrestis ioscoridis vera 
oppositifolia 
Of these, all except the third are synonyms of Carthamus lanatus 
M. 2142). Under Primula we find 
‘‘ foliis ellipticis foliis subhursutis [sic] 
ovatis utrinque viridibus.” 
Under Gentiana— 
* floribus campaniformibus _fioribus ina 
i entricosis.”’ 
These examples might be indefinitely atleast It may be said 
that these, like ‘‘ Franklin’s Tartar’? and ‘“ Fortune’s Double 
Yellow” (which are also given) are merely useless incumbrances ; 
but such binominals as Helleborus ramosissimus, Dentaria aphylios, 
Bandura aig Chamecistus hirsuta, have the appearance of 
accepted names, and may bother future seem as neither italics 
nor synonyms indicate their insignifican 
Among misspelt names of genera nn ‘be mentioned « Arthro- 
steinma’”’ and ‘“ Bachhounts "; among tena sacag the oath and 
ra 
oubiiale under almost every genus; thus under Babiana we have 
Disticha Sambucina Sulphurea 
p Socotrana Tubiflora 
eter Spathacea Villosa 
ringens Stricta 
There is no need to say more of this alae pote publication ; it 
is astonishing that it should have been issued by a firm of w 
the present head, as Mr. Hemsley tells us in his “ History,” “has 
been actively connected with the Botanical Magazine for the last 
