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dication of the present boreal vegetation has been had prior to 

 Glacial time. While this fact remains it appears that we cannot 

 regard the prevalent theory as wholly acceptable. Mr. Fowler's 

 tabulations of the Flora are of great interest and a valuable con- 

 tribution to geographical botany. N, L. B. 

 Asclepias tnberosa, var. flexiwsa, n, var. Joseph F. James. (Bot. 



Gazette, xiih, 271.) This novelty is native in the Cumberland 



Mts., Tennessee. 

 Botanical Nomenclature in North America. Edward L. Greene. 



(Journ. Bot, xxvi., 326-328.) 



This forms another chapter in a discussion now In progress, and 



we commend Its perusal to those botanists who are still anxious to 



use binomials as against specific names of greater antiquity, wiiile 



the many who hold to the other view will find in it facts and 



arguments which cannot fail to strengthen them in the better 

 practice. 



California Woods in Aiiinnifi. Edward L. Greene. (Garden 



L. H. Bailey. (J 



and Forest, I., 422-423.) 



^ex Notes from the British Mnsenm. 



Bot, xxvi., 321-323.) 



Professor Bailey is doing Cyperology valuable service 



World 



m examining old types in the great Herbaria of the Old 

 If we mistake not, he will be able to show that such comparisons 

 were much needed. In the present paper he gives us a few of 

 the results reached at South Kensington, including descriptions 

 of Carex nova — surely a fitting name for a new species — the C. 

 (ttrata^ var. nigra of various American botanists, a native of the 



Rocky Mountain region. 



tonia, i., 231-237,) 



f Authors. Edward L. Greene. (Pit- 



Prof Greene here gives especial attention to the faulty prac- 

 tice adopted by some writers of citing Bentham and Hooker as 

 authors of binomials which they never created. His arguments 

 are, we judge, conclusive on this point. He also consistently 

 maintains the position that accepted and familiar binomials, if 

 Pre-Linnaean, should be cited as of pre-LInnasan authors, and 



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gives us examples of cases where this has been done by botanists 

 ^f as eood rennte as Dn Grav and Baron von Mueller. The 



