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24 HANDBOOK OF THE BROMELIACEi^.
puUcaris. Banks of Thurso Eiver. — *C, vulgaris
Tlmrso Eiver.— *C. paliidosa. Isauld Burn.
West Sutherland. — -'-ThaUctrum maju^ Crantz.
yhv. juncella,
East bank of
the Naver Eiver, Bettyhill. "^'Erodhun cicutarium. Near Bettyhill.
— *-Senecio sylvaticus. Bettyhilh S. Jacohcca ya,Y. floscidosns (Jord.).
Plentiful on hill-sides, and by road-sides round Bettyhill. Mr.
Hanbury noticed it last year. I also saw several plants intermediate
between the variety and the type. Hieracium nitidiim. Cliffs near
the mouth of the Eiver Naver.— *H'. sparsifoUum (?).
Strath Naver.
—H. auratnm Fr. Melvich; near the mouth of the Eiver Naver;
near Altnaharrow. H. strictumFr. Strath Bagaisteach. *P>/rnla
media. Strath Bagaisteach. — Stachys arvensis. Probably introduced,
growing on waste land formerly under cultivation ; Creag
Euadh, Bettyhill. Jiinciis fluitans. Altnaharrow. Carex fiUformis.
Loch Mer, Invernaver. — '^-Arrhenatherum avenaceum. — William
F. Miller.
NOTICES OF BOOKS.
Handbook of the Bromeliace(E. By J. G. Baker, F.E.S., F.L.S.
8vo. Pp. xi. and 243. London : G. Bell & Sons. August,
1889. Price 5s.
This handbook, uniform, as the author reminds us, with those
already published on the Fern-allies and Amaryllidefe, represents
another of Mr. Baker's generous gifts to Systematic Botany.
Monographs of some of the larger genera have already appeared
in this Journal, and the great attention which the order has recently
received is seen from the fact tbat while the " Synopsis of
jEchmea,'' published in this Journal for 1879, contains 58 species,
no less than 128 are described in the " Handbook." Pitcaimia, in
1881, included 70 species, as against 130 in 1889 ; and so recently
as 1888, TiUandsia, which now numbers 323, contained only 241
species. This increase is largely due to the energy of Dr. Glaziou,
of Eio Janeiro.
The present hand-book contains descriptions of above 800
species, more than double Mr. Bentham's estimate of the number
known in 1883, the date of publication of the third volume of the
'Genera Plantarum.' This, Mr. Baker says, is doubtless "far
short of the number that will ultimately be found," for " during
the last year M. Andre has added 60 new species from his own
gatherings in New Granada and Ecuador, and Dr. Wittmack
about 20 from the collections of Consul Lehmann." In fact, it
seems only necessary to seek in order to find, for from quite a few
Bromeliads collected near Pernambuco in 1887 by Mr. Eamage,
Mr. Baker describes a new one, .-Eclnuea rddleyi.
In drawing up about two hundred of the descriptions, the
author has had the advantage of the living plants at Kew ; the
dried collections at the British Museum and Kew have together
supplied specimens of about half the known species, and the
herbaria of Berlin and Paris have also contributed. To judge from