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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
The Forest Flora “ i aap say Parts i. & ii. 4to. Feb., 
March, 1908 e ls. iti 
Genus eighth aah i; vaio, 4 plates. Price 2s. 6d. 
J. H. Mamen. Published by the authority of the 
Government of New South Wales: Sydney, Gullick. 
We have here the first instalments of what should prove two 
very useful works. Mr. Maiden has for many years devoted him- 
to its most characteristic ae Eucalyptus ; no man livin 
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be congratulated on its enterprise. It is, we think, to be regretted 
that the text and plates are not so printed that they can be separated 
when the volume is complete and bound in systematic order. There 
is a certain want of recognition of various small matters which in 
usableness of a book ; for example, the name of the plant under 
po ccapenagane 2 should, in books like this, ‘ieee at the head of 
Useful, however, as the Forest Flora is likely to be, it is dis- 
appointing to find that Mr. Maiden has contented himself with 
reprinting Bentham’s descriptions from the Flora Australiensis, 
‘tena. of describing the species anew from the living material at 
his disposal. Moreov er, a great deal of unnecessary matter is 
printed, e.g. under Synear pia laurifolia we have a dissertation on 
the distinction between Syncarpia and Metrosideros, which seems 
out of place in such a work, and a long pe ii of a report on its 
in Hs ake: the gree eee oetie n would be improved by con- 
densation, and by a little m re attention to literary form and 
method. It is saucehal fem neerting, for instance, to find no 
comprehensive botanical description of Eucalyptus pilularis—the 
only species = se Janey of the monograph ; Smith’s brief 
original diagn s given, with a note that the tree is ‘‘ more 
amply defined ” = Ben tham’s Flora and in Mueller’s Eucalypto- 
graphia, The introductory matter seems to lack arrangement : 
which would have come better when the volum ee 2 eted ; then 
‘‘Non-Eucalypts described as Eucalypts,” followed se Works 
consulted ’’—a list which, pacity a bibli hical 
much to be CTC Under this head we find a eetovat thea 
