160 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Journal of Botany for July last. I believe it to be a timely pre- 
sentation, and I hope that it may call the attention of certain 
editors to things which they have not thought of. The fact is, 
many editors of botanical periodicals have not had any training in 
form in printing. Incidentally 1 wish also to call your attention to 
the custom of the Botanical Gazette in reference to the dates of issue. 
You rightly said that our date is on the first page of the advertise- 
ments, and disappears in the bound volume. You did not happen 
to catch the fact that in order to avoid this disappearance we print 
the list of dates of publication at the end of the ‘‘ Table of Con- 
tents” of each volume, so that it may be permanent. Perhaps this 
is not the best way, but I thought that you ought to know that we 
have done something in the way of making the record of dates a 
permanent one.—Joun M. Counter. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS, 
Genera Siphonogamarum ad Systema Englerianum conscripta ab au- 
toribus Dr. C. G. pz Datua Torre et Dr. H, Haros. Fasciculus 
Quartus. 4to, pp. 241-3820. Lipsie: Engelmann. 6 marks. 
Index Kewensis Plantarum Phanerogamarum Supplementum Primum 
Nomina et Synonyma omnium Generum et Specierum ab initio 
anni MDCCOLXXXvI usque ad finem anni mpccoxcy complectens 
confecerunt THroruiLus Duranp et B. Daypon Jackson. [Parsi. 
A— to, pp. 120 
We noticed in this Journal for 1900 (p. 862) the general plan 
enclature which 
formation been given in smaller sp a complete 
synonymy of genera, with a bibliography of each, whi he’ 
ever we have had occasion to test it, has almost lways proved 
accurate an Cc Edwardia Ss a synony 
. given as @ S 
Cola, and substituted for the latter by Mr. Hiern (Welw. Cat. i. 84) 
rse use their o 
arbitrary standard set up at Berlin. 
ne name in this last instalment has no claim to inclusion, 
although it finds place in the Index Kewensis. This is “ Launzan 
Buch. Ham. in Asiat. Research. v, (1799) 123.” The title of 
Buchanan’s paper is “Description of the Tree called by the 
