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T HE SOUTH AUSTRAL IAN NATURALIST September, 1952 
such a publication. There are 
numerous full page colour jalates 
as well as half-tone plates, the 
originals of which came from the 
camera of one of our greatest 
photographers of Australian plants 
— Mr. Bert Reeves. It is a well 
produced book and the publishers 
have taken pains to see that the 
production matches the high 
quality of the text and blocks. The 
index is good and there is a most 
instructive Introduction by Prof. 
Turner. Chapters written specially 
for this book by such well known 
authorities on native plants as 
Pescott, Althofer and Mrs. E. Scott 
of West Australia are also included 
and go to make this a most useful 
book. It will long remain an auth- 
orative work on Australian plants 
suitable lor cultivation. 
“Trees and Shrubs for Australian 
Gardens ” Ernest E. Lord, 1951 
(2nd edit.), 455 pp., over 170 plates 
including 15 colour; 10 in. by 7|- 
in., in cloth boards, with colour 
dust jacket. Lothian Publishing 
Coy. Pty. Ltd., Melbourne. £5 5s. 
"Flora of Western Austral ia" 1952 
By G. A. GARDNER 
Book Review by 
Vol. 1, Part 1 (Gramineae) 
available from the Government 
Printer, Perth, deals wholly with 
grasses— it is to be followed at a 
later date by a detailed mono- 
graph on the Eucalypts and de- 
scriptions (in a condensed form) 
of the remainder of the flora. 
In particular the very detailed 
descriptions of the Genera and 
native species together with an ex- 
cellent glossary and drawings of a 
representative species from each 
genera are a great help to the 
student. The "Keys" are well con- 
structed and easy to follow— in 
some cases cultivated grasses, not 
yet naturalised but otherwise im- 
portant, are included in the diag- 
nosis. The Volume is ideally set 
up but the location of the index 
before the glossary at the end of 
the book is an annoyance in a ref- 
erence work such as this. 
LIN WILLIAMS 
The author has given reasons for 
including the genus Bothriochloa 
in Dichanthium — South Australian 
representatives of these genera will 
be affected by this change. It is un- 
fortunate that the Bromes, as we 
know them, have been split up in- 
to smaller generic groups: B. 
are nar ius , B. mollis and B. rnacro- 
stachys being listed under Serra- 
falcus and B. Cathartica becoming 
Ceratochloa cathartica. This prac- 
tise has not been accepted by rec- 
ent overseas writers and the writer 
of this review is of the opinion that 
Australian botanists have little 
right to rearrange the genus on the 
strength of the few introduced 
species present in this country. Im- 
portant changes in the nomen- 
clature of the group known as 
"Barb-grasses" have been listed and 
the treatment of the genus Lolium 
is applicable to the group as it 
occurs in South Australia. 
