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a sane and workable harmonization of the present confusion. The 
botanists and terminologists will continue their study and determina¬ 
tion of plant names, hut any changes they propose need not disturb 
commercial and educational relations for a period of years, until a 
future revision of this Official Catalogue includes such changes as will 
not unduly affect commercial plant relations. The plain aim of 
this Official Catalogue is to make buying easy by providing definite 
and uniform names, both scientific and 4 00111111011 ,’ for American 
horticultural commerce.” It will include “the approved scientific 
names of plants in American commerce, and the synonyms which 
have been most generally used for such approved names ; the approved 
common names of such plants where such names have been formu¬ 
lated, and important synonymous or unapproved common names ; 
authoritative lists of variety names, in important classes, such as 
Rose, Iris, Peony, Dahlia, Lilac, Rhododendron, Chrysanthemum, 
Sweet Pea, etc.; the approved variety names of fruits, according to 
the newly revised code of the American Pomoloorical Society.” The 
specimen pages which accompany the circular show that much care 
has been taken in the typographical arrangement of the various 
sections, and we shall await with interest the appearance of what 
promises to be an important work ; owing to the amount of voluntary 
help that has been rendered, it has been found possible to produce the 
book at the cost of five dollars. 
The first volume of the new series of the Botanical Magazine —- 
vol. 148 of the whole work—is completed b}^ the issue of its fourth 
part, dated Aug. 13 ; it is dedicated by the Committee of the Royal 
Horticultural Society responsible for its publication, to Mr. George 
Forrest, in commemoration of his explorations, dating from 1904, of 
Yunnan and Tibet and of his introduction to our gardens of many 
new and beautiful plants. The present part, which is almost entirely 
the work of the editor, Dr. Stapf, contains a figure and description of 
a new Hcemanthus (II. Lynesii ) from Darfur, and of a new Echiiim —■ 
E. cceleste —an addition to the Canary Island group ; there is a new 
name— Wattahaka sinensis —for Eregea sinensis K. Sell., for which 
Hasskarl’s genus Eregea is abandoned ; the English descriptions are 
more lengthy and consequently more generally interesting than most 
of those given in preceding volumes. 
The London Naturalist for 1922 (L. Reeve, 3s.) contains the 
Presidential Address of Mr. E. B. Bishop on “ The Extreme Local¬ 
ness of Certain Species ” (of plants and insects), but little else of 
botanical interest. The report of the Botanical Section—which notes 
that “ ten species have been added to the Northern portion of our 
area and 45 for the Southern, including 35 Rubi recorded on the 
authority of Mr. W. Watson ”—has been cut down almost to a mini- 
mum “ on grounds of economy ”: as the object of the publication is to 
promote the knowledge of London Natural History, one cannot but 
regret that nearly a third of its pages should be occupied by a paper 
on “ The Birds of Texel,” which, however interesting, hardly seems to 
come within its scope. 
