58 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
be regretted that Dr. Small does not give us some reason for the 
adoption as of generic rank of a name which Harms (in Engler and 
Prantl) does not even accept for a section or subsection, and which, 
one would think rightly, — been ignored by Lapa and is 
not adopted by Dr. Britton and American author It is im- 
possible to avoid a — ha a love of change daa a liking for 
attaching one’s ow me to the resultant combinations have much 
to do with tess ae this kind, which encumbers nomenclature 
without, so far as we can see, any resultant benefit 
os Generum Phanerogamarum inde ab anno MDCCXXXVII1 
ecb medio auctore Tom von as : opus revisum et auctum ab 
Orro Kuntze. 8vo, pp. xlvii, 714, cloth. Price 10 marks. 
et Deutsche Verlags- Asia lt. 1904, 
Wit commendable promptitude, the Lexicon of which we 
noticed “the introductory essay—Codex brevis maturus—in our 
December number made its appearance during that month. Before 
pentane: - = contents, we must at once compliment all concerned 
rable manner of its production. Convenient in size, 
Biosaly toes sloasly printed, bound in such a way that it readily lies 
open upon the table, and, owing to the generous subvention of three 
peat aa exceedingly ¢ che eap—ten m marks for nearly 800 pages—the 
book should find a place in every botanical library, however small, 
for in no othe work can so complete an enumeration of genera be 
found, estat up as it is to the end of March, 1903. 
The Lexicon is the outcome of a recommendation of the Confer- 
ence on Fbusidinta ture held at Geneva in 1900; and the compilers— 
or rather Dr, Kaiti, for the English of the prefatory matter is 
full of the charm which his pen confers upon our native tongue 
assurance: ‘ exicon re-establish international order in 
nomenclature and reasonable harmony between botanists! There 
seems no other remedy.” And indeed it will be bad for the Vienna 
Congress if it does not adopt the Codex, ata any rate, as the basis 
for its deliberations to “ replace other regulations”; for Dr. Kuntze 
himself tells us: ‘* That is the only way at the last ‘time to arrange 
y a Congress—three Congresses having already worked thereabout 
in vain—still the international order in botanic nomenclature. 
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Lexicon to make it free torn polemic. As by the subvention of the 
Lexicon the charge of the Lexicon is became very cheap, anyone who 
likes polemic can easily buy it.” We take this to mean, though it 
phen does not say, that ‘‘ polemic” is absent from the Lexicon ; 
and this conclusion, we are glad to say, is borne Gus by an ex- 
pret sera of its pages. 
