BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 808 
sent out by James Lee of Hammersmith (from whose great-grand- 
of the light which it throws upon an entry on p. 253, vol. i. of 
Dryander’s Catalogue of the Banksian Library: this runs “ Volumen 
Smith, and published in 1790 his Journal of a Voyage to New South 
ales ; one or two of Watling’s drawings were executed for White. 
The newly acquired volume contains several views of Sydney, which 
are of great interest. 
Ayotuer collection of early coloured drawings of Australian 
plants was referred to by Mr. J. H. Maiden in his presidential address 
recently delivered to the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 
These were executed by John William Lewin, A.L.S., from about 
1805 to 1808 for Governor and Mrs Most of the drawings 
of the indigenous vegetation of Port Jackson; a few are 
weeds and other introduced plant o speaks highly 
determinations. Lewin also drew Botany Bay plants for Barron 
Field, who was in the colony from 1816 to 1824. 
Tue third part of Mr. F. N. Williams’s Prodromus Flore Bri- 
tannice, which will include a revision of the British Hieracia, will 
be issued in the autumn. The subscribers to the earlier parts, of 
which only a few copies remain on hand, will of course have first 
claim on the new part, and the number available for casual pur- 
chasers will be but small. 
the second part of Etudes sur la Flore du Katanga, published 
last month, Dr. De Wildeman establishes four new genera of Legu- 
minose—Dewindtia, Droogmansia (Dolichos pteropus Baker, Meibomta 
Stuhimanni Hiern, and M, megalantha Hiern), Vignopsis, and Lieb- 
rechtsia (Vigna Kotschyi Schweinf.). Numerous new species of 
various orders are described, and twenty-two admirable plates by 
A. d’Apreval are included in the part. 
- It was known that wheat could be grown from seed cor 
probably taken from the granary of Joseph, but the ‘mummy pea 
1s, we think, a novelty, an ancient novelty, if the term may be used.” 
€ are sometimes asked where an easily accessible confutation 
of the venerable and popular fiction of ‘mummy wheat” ma 
found, it may be worth while to refer to a paper by Mr. Carruthers 
in Nature Notes for January, 1895. 
