INDEX KEWENSIS 267 
Opurys MUSCIFERA.—Mr. William A. Miller sends a photograph 
of a curious variation in Ophrys muscifera, in which the bracts 
were white or very pale green and the sepals pure white; it was 
found at Downe, near Orpington, Kent. 
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of the iit : indilepen sable of books makes its ap ce. The 
systematic botanist of the future will wonder—as Ca he of the 
agree is apt to do—how we manag ore Mr. Jackson took 
n hand the most useful of his works and produced in ie: Index 
Kaciinsie a monument of industry the value of which, to those 
who employ it etiaitt is simply incalculable. 
conviction, based upon actual and almost daily experience, it 
adve 
taken, indeed, as testimony to the ex aiteans of the work oo a 
whole ~ only such small points offer themselves for comm 
The most serious defect is the absence of the date, which 
should ssltenw the reference to the place of sr oneragitom By this 
omission, as we have more than once pointed out, the usefulness 
. the Sapul Index is greatly impaired ; the addition would 
cupy of time or space, and would 
sr increase the value of the references. It should at least 
have been given when names were published at dates anterior to 
the years to which this ea praene: judging from the title-page, 
is confined: indeed, we think it would have been advisable either 
extended by reference to a list of such omissions kept in the 
National Herbarium—for a special supplement, to be issued with 
n 
bibliography that they a previous to 1901. The refer- 
ence to these species as of Buch shows that the papers in this 
Fouzia for 1904 on the list printed in Buch’s Physicalische 
Beschreibung der Ca narischen gree 189-199, has been some- 
wh ppl 
ment. In that paper it was shown that the list, though attributed 
y Lowe to Buch, was compiled (as indeed Buch himself states) 
