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each species, with many subspecies and varieties, is represented ; 
the entire absence of dissections is however somewhat a drawback 
to their usefulness. The descriptions are very full, and include 
geographical distribution, and popular names in French, German, 
Flemish, Italian, and English—among the last are many that are 
strange to us— e. (]. “ Dyer’s savory ” for Serratula —and assuredly 
no Englishman ever called Kentroyhyllum lanatum (which is not 
English) “Blessed-thistle-of-the-Parisians.” A British Flora on 
the lines of the hook would he very useful. British botanists are 
already acquainted with Bonnier’s work through the translation hy 
Boulger of his useful little work Les Noms des Fleurs, published 
in 1917 under the title Name this Flower and noticed in this Journal 
for 1917, p. 293. 
The Few Bulletin (no. 2) announces the recent death of 
Bichard Arnold Dimmer (formerly Diimmer), which followed on 
a motor accident at Uganda, where he had been stationed since 1914. 
He came to Kew as a student gardener in 1910, having previously 
worked in the Municipal Gardens, Cape Town. In 1912 he con¬ 
tributed to this Journal a description of Fearsonia, a new genus of 
Leguminosee , and “An Enumeration of Bruniacece” which appeared 
as a supplement to the volume; other papers from his pen were 
published in these pages in 1913 and 1914. Dummer sent to Kew 
museums collections, including many fungi, from Uganda and Kenya. 
The death is announced of Dr. Charles Immanuel Forsyth- 
Major which occurred in London on March 25 in his eightieth year. 
Chiefly known as a paleontologist, he made an interesting collection 
of plants in Madagascar in 1894-95 which are in the National 
Herbarium ; by one of these —Mimulopsis Forsythii S. Moore—he 
is commemorated. He lived much in Corsica, where he met with 
a serious accident in the summer of 1922. 
The Kew Bulletin (no. 2; March) contains the firs! instalment 
of a series of “ Contributions towards a Phylogenetic Classification 
of Flowering Plants ” hy Mr. J. Hutchinson, to which the Director, 
Captain A. W. Hill, prefixes a preliminary note. The Contributions 
“will provide keys to the larger families and.include all the described 
genera arranged, as far as may be possible, on the basis of their 
probable phylogeny.” In the present paper the author lays down the 
general principles adopted, illustrating them by the treatment of 
Banunculacece. In the same number Mr. J. S. Gamble describes a 
new Bamboo, Neohouzeaua tavoyana. In referring to the stead}^ 
growth every year of the task of compiling the quinquennial supple¬ 
ments to the Index Kewensis, the Bulletin makes a suggestion to 
which we willingly give further publicity: “ It would be of the 
greatest assistance if authors would indicate the first time a new 
group or combination is used by adding the sign ‘ n. sp.’ or ‘ comb, 
nov.,’ and also cite the synonyms on which they are based. The 
Index is so greatly appreciated that it is felt that these difficulties 
need only be pointed out for all to assist in lightening the compiler’s 
task.” 
