NOTES AND NEWS. 
Erythea VII, No. 12, pt. r. The announcement is made that 
this journal will cease with the next number containing title-page, 
index, etc. Its discontinuance is much to be regretted but it is 
understood that its superintendence made too great a draft on the 
time of the editor, whose duties as Assistant Professor of Botany 
in the University of California leave little space for outside work. 
In the Botanical Gazette for April, 1go00, Prof. B. L. Robinson 
in noticing The Synopsis of Mexican and Central American 
Umbelliferze says: ‘The many specific names which the authors 
have been obliged to coin, are mostly the simple and familiar 
descriptive terms of the glauca, serrata and rigida type, with no 
such linguistic jumbles as pseudoparviflora, heterappendiculata, 
Saxifragopsis, parvicarpum, etc., which have of late so frequently 
marred the publication from other American botanical establish- 
ments, although rarely found in the writings of our more classical 
transatlantic colleagues. Another point which merits special 
mention is the scrupulous care with which the authors have 
avoided the publication of manuscript or herbarium names in 
their synonymy—a useless practice which, notwithstanding the 
emphatic protest of Mr. B. Daydon Jackson and others, is still too 
prevalent.’? We commend these remarks to some of our western 
botanists who are apparently anxious to condense a page of des- 
cription into a specific name. 
The Fern Bulletin for 1900 contains a characteristic photograph 
and and an appreciative notice by Thomas Meehan of John H. 
Redfield. He was the founder of the botanical section of the 
Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, and curator of the herbarium. 
His books and collections were sold for its benefit. the latter going 
to the Missouri Botanic Garden, 
Dr. C. A. Purpus has gone fora collecting trip to the bound- 
ary region between Utah and Colorado. His botanical collections 
made in that region last year were principally from the high 
mountains, 
