124 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
greatly outnumber the flowers. The fact that all the earn 
are in German detracts from the general usefulness of the w 
it is to be regretted that the convenience of the arch pateir was not 
considered when the arrangement of the book is planned—we have 
but one heading ‘“ Rosa” for all these pages, whereas it would have 
been quite easy to give at the top of each such information as 
would put the reader in possession of information which he 
must now hunt through several pages to find. There is a copious 
synonymy. 
me a with the ioerhiget of floras, we venture yo 
express a hope that means will be taken to bring toa ¢ 
closion the Index Flore Sinensis, nates begun in 1886 and oaeial 
with some regularity until 1891, appears to have fallen under 
parts, of sixty and eighty-two pages each, have been issued, the first 
in 1894, the second in 1899. It is obvious that this must result in 
the comparative uselessness of the work as a representation of the 
Chinese flora at any one period ; at the present rate of delay, the end 
of the Index will be hopelessly out of harmony with the beginning. 
There may, of course, be adequate reason for the delay; but we trust 
that the Council of the Linnean Society, under whose auspices the 
work is issued, will do all that in them lies to secure its — 
within a reasonable period. 
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS.* 
Botanical a (24 Jan.). — R. A. H arper, ‘Binucleate Cells 
in Hymenomyce ha ~ — J. F. Clark, ‘ Toxic properties of 
copper compou aa Clinton, ‘ Cladochytri ium Alismatis’ 
(8 pl.). — J.C. Arkivide, ‘ ids to relationship among heterce cious 
Plant rusts.’—L. N. Goodin oe . Rocky ag plants. 
Botanical Magacine (20 D — J. Matsumura, ‘ Japanese 
Rubi.’ — Y. Uyeda, ‘ Ueber Af 6 ‘ Benikoji Pilz’ aus Formosa’ 
(1 pl.). — T. Kawakami, face trees of Etorofu in Kurile.’ — T. 
sonia ‘Flora of Japan’ (cont 
Botaniska Notiser (15 Feb. : — T. Hedlund, ‘Om frukten hos 
Caines bohemicum.’—L. M. Neuman, ‘ Galeopsis Carthusianorum.’ 
Bot. Zeitung (15 Feb.).—. Jost, ‘Der Theorie der Verschiebung 
seitlicher Para durch ihren PGE aS Druck.’ 
dates assigned to the numbers are those which appear on their covers 
* The 
or han age but it must not always be inferred that this is the actual date of - 
publica, 
