Notes on Recent Literature. 
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beginner, who is often at a loss to know what is the significance of 
some of the terms used by the systematists of this group. 
The text-figures are admirably prepared, and it was a happy 
conception to include plates at the end of the book in order to 
shew the relationships between those genera of the Agaricaceae 
which differ in spore-colour, but whose general anatomy is the 
same. The letterpress of the book is excellent and the misprints 
are insignificant in number. 
It may be added that the nomenclature is in accordance 
with the Vienna Code of Rules already applied to the nomen¬ 
clature of vascular plants. The question of the authorities for the 
species-name of non-vascular plants is to be brought up at the 
International Congress in 1910, but it is unlikely that it will differ 
greatly from the code adopted for the higher plants. 
F.T.B. 
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