364 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
forty years ” and is moreover a Fellow of the Linnean Society. An 
index which should embody at least such corrections as have been 
made in the Magazine itself would no doubt be useful, but this 
could only 3 undertaken by a boheniel; or at least by some one 
acquainted with botanical nomenclature and its rules. The index 
before us, for example, includes two references to Cypripedium 
parviflorum ; a botanist or even an intelligent compiler would have 
noticed that under the second reference it is stated that the plant 
the insertion of thousands of useless ainteien peter tic ot have been 
devoted to an index of the names of the persons mentioned in 
Mr. Hemsley’s ‘‘ History,” as such a list is badly needed. 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, éc. 
Mr. C. G. Luoyp has just issued the results of his studies on the 
Tylostomee. The genera described by him are Queletia, Dictyo- 
cephalos, Schizostoma, Battarea, Battareopsis, Chamydopus, and Tylo- 
stoma the i i 
mammosum, is known in Britain. With one or two exceptions, all 
ba Aces of this family are rare; several of them have only one 
oyd’s notes, as usual, enlighten and enliven the 
lists and descriptions, and the species are illustrated by photographs 
om the plants in the various echo visited by Mr. Lloyd, 
who again begs for specimens of Gasteromycetes from collectors, and 
asks for any information that his readers can send him as to the 
oceurrence of Battarea in this country. His address is 24 West 
Court Street, Cincinnati. 
Mr. V. H. Bracxman, who has been for ten years an assistant in 
the Department of Botany of the British Museum, has Peas a his 
appointment on taking up the post of Lecturer in Bota ny at the 
Birkbeck Institute, which he will hold in conjunction with a lecture- 
ship at the East London College 
pe Sc of British plants in the Botanical Gallery at 
the Dadaeid ory Museum has been augmented by a set of 
Characea, “present ted by Sain H. & J. Groves. The specimens 
occupy several frames son the same Soctiniad with the mosses, and 
are pot aech according to the recent edition of Babington’s Manual. 
A set of British lichens for the use of the public, illustrated with 
water-colour drawings of the genera, is also being placed in a cabinet 
in the gallery. 
