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are L. Texana, and L. Coulteri, the former has two: names: in Bot. 
Mex. Bound, Nierembergia (Leploglossis) viscosa, and Browallia 
(Leptoglossis). Texana. It was probably intended that the first 
should be cancelled.—3. Quelgues Points de Nomenclature Botanique, 
par Alph. De Candolle and A. Cogniaux, from Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. 
Belg. Vol. XV. 1876. “ The fatherof the laws of Botahical Nomen- 
clature?'in answer to questions of M. Cogniaux, reminds him that 
the name of an author appended to an order, genus, or species,on* 
any sub-section, is there not as a matter of praise off censure, but as 
a simple reference to the fact, that the author cited, is the authority 
for the name or the combination of names. If, for example, he 
merely forms, or remodels a genus, without naming the species under 
it, whether old. or new, he is only to be quoted as authority for the 
genus; but if he takes the species into view, he is authority for the 
combination, although he retain the old specific names. _ For instance, 
Bentham has reduced as many as thirty genera to the one head, 
Peucedanum. There might be among these discarded genera, three 
having a species dissectum, if, Bentham applies this name to Peuce- 
danum, it is plainly proper to quote P. dissectum, Benth., for that is 
the fact to be stated.—4. Catalogue of Phenogamous and Acrogenous 
Plants, found growing wild in Michigan, compiled by Elmore Palmer, 
M.D., Dexter, Washtenaw Co., Mich., 16 pages, of two columns, 
about 38 plants to a column, or about 1,000 species to the end of 
Lycopodiaceze.—5. We have received from Aichter Lajos, Budapest, 
Erzherzogin Maria Valerie Gasse, No. 1, Hungary, a duplicate copy 
of his very extensive exchange catalogue, the condition of which 
exchange were: noted in our BULLETIN, Dec., 1876, § 134.—6. 
Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 1877, Part i; 
Meetings and. Discussions to the end of March. Full of interesting. 
matter, Squash and Melon Culture, by J. W. Pierce, Fertilization 
and Cross Fertilization, by Prof. Goodall, etc.—7. American Journal 
of Science and Arts: The May No. has an article on the History of 
Helianthus tuberosus, by Drs. Trumbull and Gray, Dr. Trumbull’s 
historical investigations seem to make it clear that it was obtained 
from the Canadian Indians, and corroborate Dr. Gray’s conclusion 
that it is a cultivated A. doronicoides. Dr. Gray adds that he has 
for some years been convinced that the annual Sun-flower, Hi, an- 
nuns, said by Linneus to come from Peru and Mexico, is the 7. 
lenticularis of Deuglas, which again is probably only a larger form of 
H. petiolaris of Nuttall, natives of the western part of the Mississippi : 
valley and of the plains, to and beyond the Rocky Mountains. ”— 
According to Dr. Trumbull’s citations from Sagard and Champlain, 
it was cultivated by the Huron Indians for the oil of its seeds, which 
they used as hair-oil, In the botanical notes, Dr. Gray proposes the 
terms eutropic and antitropic to express the direction of a twiner, the 
former meaning with the sun, the latter contrariwise. | Those who 
possess Elliott’s Botany will value the dates of publication ascer- 
tained in this and the January,No. There 1s in this No. a very in- 
teresting notice of a paper in the Linnean Journal, by Bentham, on 
Classification and Terminology in Monocotyledons. In the June No. 
Dr. Gray has a notice of Beccari’s Organogenia dei fori feminei del 
