Botany. 55 
In her attempt to make matters plain the author uses some odd 
terms, as '^Virgin-parentage," '' The Man's House," '' The Woman's 
House," etc. 
The second part of the book consists of a manual which is said to 
include " All the known orders with their representative genera." 
In this the Algte constitute the first order, the Fungi the second, 
and the Lichens the third I 
Without question the book cost the author a great deal of hard 
work, and it is a pity that it has been such a waste of energy. — 
Chai'les E. Bessey. 
A Valuable Book for the Herbarium. — Indispensable as Ben- 
tham and Hooker's Genera Plantarum is in the herbarium, it is 
often a troublesome book to handle on account of its great size. 
When one is obliged to search through the three volumes for some 
obscure genus the time taken is so much lost from work, and the 
wear and tear of the book itself from so much use is such as to 
threaten its early destruction. This is especially the case in those 
herbaria where advanced students have free access to the books and 
^pecin 
Durand, of Brussels, is intended to take the plai 
Plantarum for much of the work in the herbarium. The orders 
^nd genera have the same sequence as in Bentham and Hooker's 
work. The mode of treatment may be made out from the follow- 
ing, taken from page 1 : 
OrdoI. RANUNCULACE^. 
Tribus I. Clematide.i:. 
1. Clematis L. G. I. 3 et 953.— Sp. descript. ultra 200, a cl. Kunze ad 
66 reduct. Orbis. fere tot. reg-. temp, et trop. 
Sect. 1. YiticellaDC, Viticella Morch. 
Sect. 2. Clieiropsis DC, Atragene L., Cheiropsis et Viorna Spach. 
Sect. 3. Flammula DC, Meclatic Spach. 
3. Naravelia DC G. I. 4.— Sp. 2 v, 3, Asia trop. 
^ The first column of figures consists of a running enumeration of 
vhich extends throughout the volume, the second col- 
In( ^'^^'_.-.^., ..__^ 
imber of species (estimated) for 
Ordines. Genera. Species. 
iPolypetalae 90 3,050 28,300 
GamopetalcB 46 2,885 37,800 
MonochlamydefB 36 849 12,100 ' 
The book is published in Berlin by the brothers Borntraeger, at 
about 20 marks. — Charles E. Bessey. 
