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have from time to time appeared in the BULLETIN. At the close, 
the chapter treats of herbarium cases, with a recommendation of the 
> small and inexpensive cabinets proposed and illustrated by Dr. Parry 
= in the American Naturalist, VIII, 471. : 
We have next a much needed table of the usual abbreviations of 
the names of botanists and botanical authors, and of the other 
abbreviations and signs used in botanical works. : 
Finally, the Glossary or Dictionary of botanical terms, English 
and Latin, is muchenlarged. We find here, for example, the aljec- 
tive “‘drunneus, deep brown,” for which we have searched the Latin 
lexicon in vain. The Index part is a reference, at the end of a defi- 
nition, to the page where the term has been introduced. Neverthe- 
less, we feel the want of a separate index, for the attempt to combine 
the two is apt to lead to oversights and omissions: vide polembryony 
or polyembryony, for an oversight, and antidromy, for an omission, per- 
haps intentional, but the word as it is used, p- 157, it is entitled to a 
place in the glossary. 
The generally excellent illustrations have been retained as far as 
possible, perhaps unnecessarily so in Fig. 221, and many new ones 
have been added. We have noticed but few typographical errors, 
such as are common toa first impression of a text book, and these 
chiefly in the numbers referring to the figures. On page 281, Fig. 
576, 578 occur repeatedly for Fig. 579, 581. 
There are several expresssions in the course of the volume imply- 
ing the author’s satisfaction or dissatisfaction with his formerly pub- 
lished views, which will be regarded with peculiar interest by those 
who have long regarded Dr. Gray as their great teacher and model. 
In the Utica Morning Herald, of June 26th, is published the 
Plant Exiles, the annual poem read before the Society of Hamilton 
Alumni, by Benjamin D. Gilbert, of Utica—a pleasing tribute to 
the illustrious botanist who : 
* sprang from the hills that rise in the midst of Oneida.” 
the teacher whose genius translated the tale of the Glaciers, 
Read in the levaes of the plants the runes that within them lay.” 
irs 
§ 321. Notes from Prof. I. H. Hall.— A few days since, on a 
short trip to Western New York, I visited some familiar localities to 
see how things were growing, and noticed that the thinning out of 
_ Some damp woods had greatly increased the number of seedlings of 
Sanguinaria. I presume that others, like myself, have often seen 
seedlings of this plant, and noticed how the very young leaves are 
almost always round-reniform. I have hau this plant in cultivation, 
to which it takes very kindly, and in so doing becomes highly orna- 
mental ; and I have noticed that it readily multiplies from the seed. 
It is worth extended domestication ; and it does not depend very ~ 
much upon shade for thriftiness. 
: I also saw that the Onoclea in several localities was very much 
given to sporting; that is, to putting forth fronds that were midway 
between the shapes of the sterile and fertile normal shapes ; and of 
course all the erratic forms were more or less fertile, as far as could 
_be inferred from the present green stage. No one whois accustomed 
