MESEMBRIANTHEMUM UND PORTULACACEEN 397 
tutes ‘‘ Hpipactis [Haller] Boehm.” for Goodyera: the two species 
common to Britain and North America appearing as S. Helleborine 
Journ. Bot. 
generally received Hpipactis had not been accessible to Mr. Ames 
opinion as to how far it can replace Goodyera R. Br.—Peramium 
906, 39 
Salisb. cannot stand (see Journ. Bot. 1906, 396). 
is acknowledged. Prof. Hitch- 
Mr. i 
vola; Dr. Greenman has revised Senecio; Mr aton under- 
takes Hquisetum and Isoetes. 3 Eggleston ‘“ has revised 
the exceedingly difficult genus Crategus” wh re runs to 
surprise those who have watched the ups and s of our own 
critical genera. As a set-off to this, however, we note that Prof. 
a In papers which appeared since the Manual went to 
ew York alone! Compared with this, the exploits of our 
batologists and hieraciarchs seem mean and trivial. 
n interesting tabular view shows that the plants treated in 
the Manual are placed in 157 families, 1001 genera, 4079 species 
and 806 “varieties, named forms, &c.” It remains to be said that 
the get-up of the book is in every way satisfactory: it is well 
printed on good paper and strongly bound. 
Besti 
Angaben iiber die Kultur. Von Atnwin Berger. Mit 67 
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THI handy and useful addition to the series of 
“Tllustrierte Handbiicher sukkulenter Pflanzen” which is being 
issued by Herr Ulmer. There was certainly room for a mono- 
genus as at present known; he has evidently carefully collated 
the literature of the subject, for we note that hé reproduces part 
of Masson’ i { Mesembryanthemum ciliatum and M. 
digitatum, to which reference was made in this Journal for 1884 
(p. 147). A careful clavis of sections and genera is followed by 
descriptions of the species, many of which are figure He 
