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continue. On the other hand, for such plants as Chrysanthemum 
ad 
enough that Kew should encourage the absurd persons who 
suppose that every plant possesses an ‘‘ English name,” but it is 
far worse that the names supplied should be of the kind of which 
we have = examples. 
with regret and surprise that ‘‘no special perc) 
os for the pone be made for the — of elementary students 
* the site of the ‘ Students’ _— as required for the new 
‘elite of the Herbarium.” This wi Pa although the naming of 
the plants contained in it at ses left something to desire, was 
one of the most useful ee of Kew, and it should not be 
Agriculture, this and other developments in a practical direction 
may be set on foot. In this connection it may be pointed out that 
the absence of any popular guide to Kew Gardens deprives them 
almost entirely of their instructional value, so far as the general 
public is concerned. It is remarkable, considering the importance 
which is supposed to be attached to the increase of educational 
facilities, that such a Guide, which existed throughout the direc- 
torates of the Hookers and extended to thirty editions, should for 
so many years have been allowed to lapse. ‘The last edition, pre- 
pared by Prof. Daniel Oliver, with a iiiie illustrations b 
Fitch, eerie a large amount of valuable and interesting infor- 
mation, and was useful even apart from the Gardens to which it 
was primaril intended as a guide. But we fail to conjecture how 
the public are to benefit by the arid and valley ‘‘hand-lists ” which 
have taken its place. 
A Monoerarn or Graster. 
Mr. C. G. Lloyd has issued a monograph dealing with American 
species of the Geastrew, under which he includes Geaster and the 
subgenus Myriostoma, a form with several orifices of the peridium 
a lo 
followed Deevoans and Corda in giving it generic rank. There is 
Lloyd’s new sate "G. Smithii, is the plant that was described 
and ri by Mr. W. G. Smith in the Gardeners’ Chronicle,* and 
ge by him under G. striatus DC. Morgan repay eet found 
the e plant in America, and determined it to be G. wmbili- 
catus es Lloyd finds reason to dissent from the conclusions of of 
* Gard. Chron, 1873, p. 469, fig. 88. 
