96 THE PINKS OF CENTRAL EUROPE. 
: local Flora. Dr. King has probably chosen the better plan, viz., 
o make the work as complete as possible as a local Flora; the 
aienion made to this course is ‘that it must rather increase the 
labour of preparation, 7. ¢., diminish the rate at which the work 
can be produced. 
It is impossible to give here a full analysis of Dr. King’s new 
species; 11 (to 4 old) Alsodeia, _ - 10 = , Xanthophyllun, 16 (to 
20 old), Garcinia. In lieu of o old Hyd give 
Hydnoca arpus, 4 Taraktogenos, 7 pies “all. pie es). At present 
Dr. King is working behind Pierre’s magnificently illustrated 
Forest Fora; of Cochin China, and is able to avail himself thereof ; 
but in his next number he will probably overtake Mons. Pierre, and 
lose his assistance. 
t only remains to add our best spre ens Dr. King may com- 
plete his Flora—and sooner than he s. The work is not so 
large as it appears from these two sat, Sees for the Apaiall 
and Monocots the Malay new material of Dr. King has been worked 
up by Sir Hooker, in the Flora of British India en, 
therefore, the Flora of the Malay Peninsula has been pushed 
to the end of the Monopetals, the remainder can (or very nearly 
can) be done by ‘‘ extracting’’ from Sir Joseph Hooker’s work. 
CG. B.C. 
The Pinks of Central Europe. By F. N. Wiuuiams, F.L.S. 8vo, 
66 pp., 2 plates. “area by the Author, 181, High Street, 
Brentford. Price 4s. 6d. 
WE think that it ct Hiei been more convenient and useful 
to botanists if Mr. Williams had monographed the species of 
ianthus i i 
species. Last year he J oseribed the Pinks of Western Europe. In 
species and varieties very freely, and in species- -limitation he has 
n pedgie the plan of Schur, Schott, and Boissier, in preference to 
that och, Hooker, and Asa Gray. Dianthus is a very difficult 
genus, as it is a great boon to have all the species that have been 
