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‘‘ Forsellesia’’ and ‘‘ Bourdonia’’ for the genera known to us as 
Glossopetalon and Keerlia, of course with transfereuce of the 
species as well as genera to the credit of the author. The thirg 
instance, more aggravated than even the first two is the trans- 
ference of Calycanthus L. to Butneria Duhamel, which if 
adopted would lead to the changing of the large Sterculi- 
aceous genus Buettneria. No species was ever named under 
Duhamel’s Butneria; and Mr. Greene fails to inform us how he 
succeeded in satisfying himself that it had priority over Beureria 
Ehret published in the same year, and taken up by Kuntze. 
Lotus sulphureus and L. tomentosus are supplied with new names, 
the author’s attention having been called in Zoe for April to their 
previous use, but Loftus macranthus is still unchanged. Astrag- 
alus campestris Gray is changed to A. convallarius Greene because 
of A. campestris L.—now known as Oxytropis campestris, and A. 
pectinatus Boiss., a Syrian species is to be called 4. elegantulus 
Greene, though the author has not the least idea whether it is a 
valid species or not. ‘The remainder of the pages are occupied 
with the doings of American botanists at Madison, which are 
discussed elsewhere. | 
The November number under Movitates Occidentales describes 
seven new species of which, waiving for the present the question 
of their value, Astragalus demissus Greene, is a homonym of 
Boissier’s species published in 1849 in Diagn. Pl. ser. i, No. 9, 
page 50, and Saxifraga umbellata Greene bears the same rela- 
tion to a species of Hooker & Thompson Journal Linnean 
Society, ii, (Bot.) 71 (1858). We note for most of the species 
the usual vagueness of station; Mr. J. G. Lemmon gives some 
notes on Pinus insignis and P. tuberculata, which he would 
have called respectively /. radiata Don and P. attenuata 
Lemmon; Mrs. Blochman continues her interesting Herb-Lore 
notes; and Mr. Greene laments over Baron von Miiller’s com- 
ments on Polanisia which ‘‘ show that he wholly misapprehends 
the characters on which Rafinesque’s Jacksonia is based, though 
we have twice announced them very distinctly in Pittonia.” 
KE. 
Revisto Generum Plantarum Part III. By Orto KUNTZE. 
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