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the fourteenth volume of the Journal of the Society. 
This is one of the most interesting volumes issued by the 
Society, containing a great variety of valuable informa- 
tion concerning Coniferce, including a general intro- 
duction and a list of the species cultivated in Great 
Britain and Ireland, by Dr. M. T. Masters, F.R.S. 
In 1894 H. Baillon ( Histoire cles Plantes, xii. pp. 1- 
45) published an account of the order, with a synopsis 
of the genera, which he reduced to twenty-four, including 
Casuo.rina. He divides the order into eight “ series,” 
namely: Taxees, Cupressees, Juniper ees, Athrotaxees, 
Nageiees, Araucariees, Pinees, arid Casuarine'es. The 
inclusion of the last is inexplicable, and some changes in 
nomenclature will not meet with general approval 
Belis, Salisb. is revived for Cunning haw.ta, R. Br. ; 
Podocarpus, Labill. for Phyllocladus, Rich. ; Agathis, 
Salisb. for Dammara, Lamk., and Nageia, Gaertn. for 
Podocarpus, L’Hei'it.” 
Sir Joseph Hooker has been for some years so 
incessantly occupied with the completion of his “ Flora of 
British India ” that the detailed study of the Kew 
Pinetum which, as will be seen, he had proposed to 
himself, is entirely beyond his powers. Kew has, 
however, had the advantage, in drawing up the present 
Hand-list, of the assistance of Dr. Masters, F.R.S., who 
is now the acknowledged authority on the nomenclature 
of Conifers in this country. As a general rule at Kew, 
the Genera Plantarum is accepted as the standard of 
nomenclature. In the present case some deviations have 
been adopted, which have received the concurrence of 
