8* 8 JJOOK.NOTES, NEWS, ETC, 



instead of a thoroughly well-known district, such places as Chenies 

 or Ghesham had been selected for investigation, a useful result 

 might have been attained. 



Mb. F. M. Bailey's Contributions to the Queensland Flora (No V ) 

 contains, as usual, descriptions of several new species, and an 

 interesting note on Pleiogynium Solandri Engler, the " Burdekin 



JrlUm Of OllfiPnslpnrl *r» +.V»o tmnnr^^ ~C _UJ_T- . .. • 



x? i ,-r\n iii — ™T' . oj«"ujiujr ui winuu, as given oy 



En^ er (DC Mon Phan. iv. 255), Mr. Bailey adds Omnia cerasif era 

 F. M. (Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 386). 



A cobbespondent writes :—« I observe the following report in 

 1 he Irish Naturalist for the present month :— < July 30th. Excursion 



il B rT fl a l h ' '/ • ^tSI™ J 6en ~»Pe?aon for two prizes, 



jwwf ««*&* yfowm^ jofento coveted.' Is not this method of 

 botanizing one of the chief causes why several of our rarer plants 

 are on the verge of extermination ? On this verv mountain some 



On this very mountain some 

 3 eastern part of Ulster. One 



Others 



recorded from there have not been recently observed. Such 

 competitions are much to be deplored. If they are necessarv for 

 the encouragement of botanical study, let them be carried out in 

 some district where a few lingering alpines are not crying out for 

 mercy. But, whether there is such a necessity or not, there i a 

 ar stronger one that all right-minded botanists should observe! 

 that of protecting our rarer plants, and to them I appeal." There 



A' 71 1 * °" 7 t0 ° much cause for our correspondent's remarks. 

 tJZ d XZ e lV™L th ° P° S ~ 0f °- collector some 



twenty 



year in Kent. With 



tha Afkm. «„« • j- ~— *» »" «"c ox^c, jtuu exterminators on 



the other, our indigenous flora seems likely to fare badly. 



he m^tZZ^ h \ Bot o nica } ? az 1 te for Au S ust ' ex P ]ains *at 



v m\ W^c ll « h Pj:/ 3 ^ Gr ay's last letter on nomenclature (see 



& llcZT* M "*.*»* ">*«*<> [him] as editor of the Bulletin," 

 ana because [he] did not realize that it was intended for imWi 



kt?to a clSl M ' f^ "ft* ™" Wore" t„ P t1he 

 "cerLrW T2 f '/^ acc - e ? ted " a c °Py of ik in exchange"; and 



tafi ££££ .?%£' t0 PUbhsU " afcr » had ^ 



„-;i L llia J possession. lliese reasons may or mav not Ha p™ 



£tfs ksfX :/' ^ We thi ^. a11 b0tanis " 3 -n ^t that Dr. 



taken a tlS • J 6 ! ° n & 8ub -> ect in which he » Wn to have 

 taken a special interest were not made public 



elsewhere fcf a l f , °ufr tlcleS ? rinted in this J °™1 and 



o cTvptotamk hnZv l ? + b , lbll0graphies for differen * Ranches 

 oi c j progamic botany, and the new series in manv resects k a 

 great improvement on its predecessor Th* f Jt n ¥ , re spects is a 

 ments miHit ho «,»)* j preaecesso J\ -Ine typographical arrange- 

 ments might be much improved, and the plates are not satisfactory. 



