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description. The following species are described, five of which are 
new: .Sminthurus Eisenti, n.sp.; S. luteus Lubbock; S. niger Lub- 
bock; S. plicatus, n. sp.; Papirius maculosus, n. sp.; Tomocerus sp. ; 
Entomobrya nivalis L.; E. multifasciata Tullb.; &. marginata 
—Tullb.; Siva purpurea, n. sp.; Drepanura californica, n. sp.; Or- 
chesella rufescens Lubbock; Jsotoma viridis Bourl; 1 palustris Mul- 
ler; Achorutes armatus (Nicolet); A. viaticus Tullb.; Xenyl/a mart- 
tima Tullb.; Lipura inermis Tullb.; or, in all, about 18 species. 
The paper is handsomely illustrated. G. E. 
Revisio generum plantarum vascularium omnium, atque cellular- 
ium, mullarum, secundum leges nomenclature internationales, cum 
enumeratione plantarum in itinere mundi collectarum. Mit Erlau- 
terungen von Dr. OTTO KUNTZE. 
This book is likely to serve a most useful purpose—it shows to 
what extent zeal without discretion may carry a reformer, and inci- 
dentally may make clear to a few American botanists, ardent makers 
of synonyms, their inability to cope in such matters with those who 
are able at any time to consult the great libraries of Europe. 
Dr. Kuntze, in his journey round the world, collected a few 
thousand species, and in working them out to his satisfaction, changes 
about thirty thousand names. The means by which he arrives at 
this result is the rather radical one of taking for his point of depart- 
ure an earlier work of Linnzeus than the one generally adopted. 
Another method of changing genera which he uses with consid- 
erable effect is the substitution of older sectional, for more recent 
generic names. This though the logical outcome of the practice of 
some American botanists in the matter of varietal names is as re- 
pugnant to common sense as a claim of priority founded on the 
distribution of named sets. 
The license, which the author allows himself, ot modifying (cor- 
recting as he terms it) generic names, is not likely to meet with 
acceptance. The principle of priority will appear to most per- 
sons to be as absolutely overthrown by substituting Cumaruna, 
Catutsjeron, etc., for Coumarouna, Katoutsjeroe, etc., as by making 
entirely new names. The principle is the same, the violation differs 
only in degree, and the ‘nconvenience resulting from the alterations 
in indexing is the same. 
A considerable number of his generic changes will probably be 
concurred in, though not in the scrambling manner in which they 
