214 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
order that the material might be gathered in proper condition, for 
certain gel iences showed that garden produce obtained in the 
ordinary course from a market had suffered so much from bruising 
as to be worthless in these experiments. A paper by Mr. P. (Olsson 
Bate ‘On the Place of Linneus in the History of Botany,’’ which 
as communicated me Mr. B. Daydon Jackson, will shortly be pub- 
lished i in this Journ 
Art the same pier Dr. Rendle, on behalf of Mr. W. Fawcett 
and himself, gave a short acco unt of the Jamaican species of 
Lepanthes, a genus of orchids nearly allied to Pleurothallis, and, 
like the latter, habia distributed on the mountains of equatorial 
America. The mountains of Jamaica and Cuba mark the limit of 
the range of the site northwards. Grisebach, in his Flora of the 
British West Indies, daa six species, whereas the pacar 
herbs, rarely more than a few inches in height. They grow on the 
stems of the tree-ferns and other trees by which the Blue corer 
are clothed to the summits. The tree-stems are covered with m 
and liverworts, amongst which grow species of ferns, together with 
Pleurothallis and Lepanthes, the roots of the orchids ramifying 
through the water-saturated moss-growth. e numerous slender 
stems bear a single leaf just beneath the apex which sprtcan ol the 
solitary or often mascicled racemes. The flowers are ve 
in having ane petals veverwel he oader soma an long, and in the 
close connection between the lip aint column. The minute petals 
and lip show remarkable variations in Henetars: which are of value 
in the er. oie ca of ota - ecies 
high price, while its valu an important Sdotiteiba tions to the 
history of English gardening, and ee for the net charm at- 
taching to its descriptions, has rendered it a coveted possession. 
The work is carefully reproduced, page by page, an type resembling 
that of the original, while the diem are in absolute facsimile. The 
_ price of the volume is two neas, which is by no means high 
in relation to its value and interest. The edition is, we believe, 
t 
lei is possible that the very childish talk—an aggravated crams 
of that employed by lady editors of ‘children’s columns” in their 
conv verse with their “‘ chicks '’—in which Miss Ellen nee ie ‘joint 
