248 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Wig for each species is full and useful, and the author's notes on 
e plants are often exceedingly instructive. Dr. Cooke seems to 
“ad overlooked a paper on Hoya published in this Journal for 1898 
(pp. 413-418), which would, we think, have induced him to vary 
his oe a ephn of the species, in which he follows the Flora of 
British Ind 
Dr. ae W. Jorpan, Librarian of the Historical Society of 
Pennsylvania, reports that there has ate added to the library of 
the Society the microscope and seventy volumes from the library 
~ Aa nina Bartram, the botanist, es by William Middleton 
Tam fo urth part of Mr. J. H. Maiden’s Critical Revision of 
Eucalyptus is mainly devoted to F. incrassata Labill., under which 
he places eighteen species of various authors, groupe under six 
varieties. Nine good plates illustrate the species in the very a 
sense in which Mr. Maiden understands it; it seems difficult t 
understand how they can be placed together, but Mr. Maiden 
knows the living plants, and his opinion is entitled to every respect. 
We wish, however, that the letterpress were more satisfactory; the 
descriptions are mostly mere transcriptions. Mr. Maiden does 
not even give a description from his own pen of F. incrassata as he 
understands it, but contents himself with copying Labillardiére’s 
original diagnosis: the bota Heal value of his work is thus less 
apparent | than it should be, and the arrangement of the male 
leaves m to be desired. The only other species described and 
figured in itis; part is £. fecunda Schaue 
Mr. Maren also sends us part i. of his Flora of Norfolk Island, 
reprinted from the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South 
Wales for 1903. It contains mach of interest, and, if space will 
allow, we propose to return to it 
Mr. J. Mepiey Woop has published the coneluding part of vol. ii. 
of his Natal Plants, thus completing the volum e devoted to the 
grasses. The figures (by Miss es are very faintly printed, but 
are otherwise fair ly er eee ong them are many of the new 
Lest described by Dr. Stapf in the Flora Capensis. The preface 
not dated, and the date on ‘the title-page of the volume—1 
is i tintatoading ; the preceding parts were published respectively in 
1899, 1900, and 1903, and this should have been indicated on the 
back of the title-page. 
WE are glad to see that the young men at Stonyhurst are carryin 
on the investigations into be flora of the district which Father Gavard 
set on foot some years a. The note on the subject in the last 
issue of the Stonyhurst Magasin seems to have been printed off 
without being “read”; hardly a name is correctly printed, and the 
correction—* of course the spelling Chichonium Intybus was a mis- 
lling for eee intybus’’—hardly improves matters. 
Tue Rev. E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock has published in his “Rural 
Studies Series” an interesting and suggestive paper entitled How to 
make Notes for a Rock-Soil Flora (Go oulding, Louth; 1s.). We o heme 
make extracts from it in an early issue, 
