A Catalogue of North American Carices has been compuea anu 
recently published by Mr. L. H. Bailey, Jr., of Cambridge, Mass. 
It includes the names of two hundred and mnety-three species and 
eighty-fout varieties, and is intended as an exchange-list, a check 
list for herbaria and as a contribution to American caricography. 
Copies of the catalogue will be given for desiderata. 
Parkinsons '' Paradisus:—.^ good many people we suspect, 
have experienced difficulty in construing ' Paradisi in Sole Paradisus 
terrestris." The editor of Aunt Judy's Magazine and the venerable 
Rev H T Ellacombe are confessedly among the number, but they 
have been the means of eliciting from correspondents oi Notes ar- 
Queries the explanation that the title is a wretched pun. ^laradisus 
is a park; " Paradisi " is, of course, the genitive of this; m sole is 
in (the) sun (son). Hence the title would run, The Terrestrial 
Paradise of Park-in-son." Such punning titles were not uncommon 
'ardeners Chronicle. 
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