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his ecnite re they are followed by the réswmé with which his 
paper concludes 
Sherborn and Woodward seem to have given us an 
per po fairly complete account of the ‘‘ Plantes équinoxiales,”’ 
“ Melast tomes,” ‘* Rhexies,” ‘‘ Mimoses,”’ and ‘‘ Graminées’’ of the 
‘“* Voyage”’ reports, but as much cannot be said of their attempt to 
elucidate the Nova Genera. On one page they give a summary 
of the seven volumes, showing that these consist of 55, 51, 57, 39, 
54, 68, and 66 sheets or signatures respectively ; on the following 
pages they list the fascicles as announced from time to time in the 
Bibliographie de la France, from which it would appear that the 
volumes contained about 89, 98, 91, 68, 86, 106, and 119 signatures 
respectively ; after which they merely remark, «The sheeting of 
the French records is a mystery to both o 
t is well known, or ought to be, that ‘ie Wha Genera appeared 
simultaneously in two editions, one of folio size, the other in quarto. 
t is not so well known, except to those who have tried to verify 
references in the wrong edition, that the two differ widely in 
pagination; the only printed ogee of this fact which I have seen 
is a brief note by Dr. Otto Kuntze,* and he does not seem to have 
had access to a copy of the fourth volume of the folio edition. The 
at e 
pages than the mace folio fascicle, and the quarto volumes 
which 
give, repeatedly Dace the quarto edition, and in many cases 
specifies the ‘‘sheeting”’ of the quarto parts; it is difficult to see 
how they could MAbs this fact, although it may well have added 
to their perplexit 
The folio edition seems - have been prepared so that subscribers 
to the entire series of ‘‘ Voyage” reports might have them of uniform 
size; the quarto pee that botanists might secure this particular 
work at a reduced price. The latter, promely because of its ser 
referred to by Kunth hiniself, in his later oro While éonvenient, 
this practice is not strictly logical; for, as the fascicles were issued 
without breaking signatures, those numbered correspondingly never 
contained precisely the same text in the folio and in the quarto form. 
n many instances, in order to determine with exactness the — of 
publication of a new genus or species, it would be necessary to 
out whether it first appeared i in a folio or a quarto fascicle. A table 
; = * Rev. Gen. iii. 1, 156 (1898). 
