384 THE JOURNAL OP BOTANY 



him to Gronovius with the suggestion that it should bear his 

 name, from the Department of Botany. The Guide, which con- 

 tains two portraits of Linnaeus, costs 3d., by post 4d. 



The New Zealand Government has published an interesting 

 report of the botanical survey of Kapiti Island undertaken by 

 Dr. L. Cockayne in October, 1906. The report is accompanied by 

 a number of excellent illustrations from photographs showing 

 aspects of vegetation, with a list of the indigenous and introduced 

 plants in which we note that Kirk's Sonchus oleraceus var. littoralis 

 is raised to specific rank as S. littoralis. We think the Vienna 

 rule as to the employment of capitals for names derived from per- 

 sons should have been observed ; we are glad to see that Kew has 

 now fallen into line in this respect. 



Two parts have been issued of Mr. Ridley's Materials for a 

 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, dealing with the monocotyledons. 



Of the value of the book, to which we may recur, there can be no 

 doubt ; but it is to be regretted that the convenience of those who 

 use it has not been more carefully considered. Each part is paged 

 separately, but has no index ; the name of neither order nor genus 

 appears at the top of the pages, which are occupied merely by 

 repetitions of the title of the work. It is strange that matters of 

 this sort are so constantly overlooked — e. g. in the indexes to the 

 monographs of Das Pflanzenreich, the genus-name is always 

 omitted from the headings of the index pages, thus hindering 

 ready consultation. 



The number of the Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany, 

 xxxviii. 263) issued on July 11 marks the adoption of a new format : 

 the increase in size undoubtedly gives it an appearance of greater 

 importance, and must be regarded as an improvement. The 

 number contains an interesting paper, with plate, by Mr. Hemsley 

 on a three-spurred variety of Platanthera chlorantha which he 

 names tricalcarata ; it was found by Miss D. E. Wilson near 

 Sherborne, Dorset, in June 1906. Only one specimen was ob- 

 served, and it may be doubted whether the abnormal condition 

 deserves a varietal name. Other papers are on HaUieracantha, a 

 new genus of Acanthacece, by Dr. Stapf ; on the systematic posi- 

 tion of Hector ella cmpitosa, by Dr. A. J. Ewart ; on the origin of 

 Angiosperms, by Messrs. Newell Arber & John Parkin; and a 

 general report on the botanical results of the third Tanganyika 

 expedition, conducted by Dr. W. A. Cunington in 1904-5, by Dr. 

 Rendle. 



Mr. A. W. Hill publishes in the New Phijtologist for "June 

 and July " (published in September) an interesting paper, illus- 

 trated by an excellent plate, on " The Natural Hybrid between the 

 Cowslip and Oxlip." The Neto Phytologist will in future be pub- 

 lished at the Botany School, Cambridge. 



Dr. Theodore Cooke's careful Flora of the Presidency of 



Bombay 



the recently issued 



part brings the enumeration down to the beginning of Aracece. 



