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of all valid fai the arrangement being based on Engler’s 
system. Under every genus will be indicated the number of 
species, their seccckpuioal distribution, and the subgenera and 
sections. 1e nomenclature of fossil genera is to be corrected, and 
in an appendix will be found a list of cryptogamic generic names 
which must be changed according to laws of priority. Following 
the Preface comes the “ Codex brevis maturus,”’ Set out in the three 
languages. We may note the following points :—Names of groups 
above genera start from 1763, with Adanson’s F. ‘amilles des Plantes ; 
genera and their sections with Linneeus’s Genera Plantarum, 1737 ; 
and species aud their forms with the Species Plantarum, 1753. 
rou Prketien® are to ‘at latinized according to certain rules which 
indicate the suffix for each kind of group. Publicat tions can be 
Latin characters, in the Latin, English, French, German, or Italian 
languages; but this rule is not per ite as to Gothic Re 
but this rule may ham invalidated by a a competent Congress. Rules 
are also laid down for the formation and spelling of generic and 
specific names, ns “6 are wii: to note that the Neo-American tri- 
nominal is inadmissible. 
We glad to see that our Se ae Mr. William Philip 
Hiern, ors ee elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. It is thirty 
years since Mr. Hiern published his monograph of Hbenacee, since 
which time he has been and still is engaged in systematic work ; he 
has just completed the pine for the Flora Capensis 
Tue “ Ruskin Plot” is not the e of a conspiracy, but of a 
piece of land between Cothill and "Besselsleigh, Berkshire, about 
five miles from Oxford, which has been presented by Mr. Henry 
t 
ho will maintain it in its natural co t 
plot, which is nearly two acres in extent, is given in the recent 
Report of the Society by Mr. ce, who was instrumental 
in securing the gift. The ‘‘plot”’ appropriately commemorates 
John Ruskin, whose name is intimately associated with Oxford. 
Tue Alpine Flora for Tourists and Amateur Botanists (Long- 
mans, 7s.6d.), which Mrs. Gepp has translated the German of 
Dr. Julius Hoffmann, is well calculated to be of service to those for 
whom it is intended. The forty plates contain 250 figures, the 
colouring of which, if not all that could be desired, is less unsatis- 
factory than in most works of sh kind ; the descriptive portion is 
confined to the species figured, and will, we think, be 
