60 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
NOTICES OF “BOOKS. 
Index Kewensis Plantarum oat don um, Supplementum dae 
Confecerunt TxHropaitus Duranp B. Daypon Jacxso 
Fasciculus ii. {Cymbidion tri 4to, pp. 121-224. Brakeligd: 
A 8 staigne 
WE welcome a Sibebond instalment of this much-needed supple- 
ment to ‘Mr. Jackson’s admirable Indew Kewensis. Considering the 
labour which the revision of the text must involve, especially to 
M. Durand, whose sight, we regret to learn, is failing, the issue of 
this part within ten months of its predecessor shows no undue 
delay, although those bit constantly need to have recourse to its 
aid would welcome a more speedy fidite tion. Our notice of the 
first fasciculus (Journ. Bot. 1902, 162) pointed out certain features 
wherein the supplement differs from the Index, and there is no need 
to repeat what was then said. We regret, nom ee that the manga 
‘have ignored the caution we then gave as to the citation of n 
from the inaccurately dated Kew Bulletin. The genus Hirsch 
Domibiyd pitas! and Grantia senectonoides have no claim to appear 
in a list which does not. go beyond 1895, for notwithstanding the 
vndeuaing asta of the Bulletin, both on title. -page and on the num- 
ber quoted, they were not published until 1896. It may be doubted 
whether any publication of recent times is likely to give so much 
trouble in the matter of dates; and it is only by constantly calling 
attention to its misleading character that the mischief can be mini- 
mized. It is also, we think, to be regretted that nomina nuda of the 
‘Most pronounced type should be quoted from the seed-list which 
appears in the Bulletin—e. g. ‘‘ Hutchinsia gracilis Hort.” ; it is not 
easy to understand why the Kew authorities should have ee 
such a name to pass into print, but it certainly has no more clai 
to recognition than the wonderful series which embellished the ee 
seed-list of 1885. 
certain number of misprints must of course occur in a work 
of this kind. One or two are curious: e.g. “ Hieracium rubicundum 
. J. H. Moffat ex F, Hanbury,” where the locality is taken as the 
name of the deseriber. (We are not sure that “ F. Hanbury ” is a 
justifiable abbreviation of Mr. Hanbury’s name ; ‘F. J. Hanb.” 
would have taken no more room, and seems more correct.) The 
Messrs. Linton will not be pleased to find H. holophyllum attributed 
to ‘‘ Linton” simply, which they interpret (see Journ. Bot. 1902, 
862) as E. F. Linton; in the instance cited, W. R. Linton is in- 
tended. By the way, we do not see why, when a species has been 
first described in a journal easily accessible, a second reference, and 
that to the report of a Botanical Exchange Club, should be added; 
the work claims to be an index, not a bibliography. The ten years’ 
additions to the nomenclature of Hieracium occupy twenty-three 
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