152 THE KEW SEED-LIST. 
was doing in the Gardens, and botanists acquainted with the recent 
additions to the Herbarium; being at the same time a storehouse 
Orient, 
mopolit.,” ««Cauc. As. Min.,” «C.and §. Eur.,” “Sinus Kotzebue,” 
“Kur. (B.),” Austr.” (which means Australia, also styled “N. 
Holl.”), « Chatham is.,” *«N.'T. Zone.” To one plant is appended 
“*N. Afr. Am. Ind. N. Holl.” The printing of the names of author!- 
ties is extremely careless: opening quite by chance at p. 50, we find 
“‘ Gay.,” “ Ker.” and others, always printed thus, as if their names 
A Ca ” is another instance. The _ 
for ‘‘ Hooker,” « B, 
many more. ‘“ Boiss.’ and “Bois. 
both occur on th 
same page—the former is preferable. Who 
however, be considered an abbreviation of Balansa, who (with 
issi ded 
ep.” is on the same page. Elsewhere we find “ H 
Serr.,” ‘* Dorrh.,” ‘*Stend.,” and the like, some of whom we cannot 
even guess at; this criticism might be applied throughout the work. 
_ It is even more serious to find that the names of the plants 
themselves are equally unsatisfactory. Without leaving the page 
open before us, we note that some names have no authority attached. 
Sisyrinchium Bermudianum is wrong; and what “Iris Xiphioides, 
Engl. Iris” means we are unable to conjecture; nor is it clear what 
