132 



T. S. B. 



re- 



Mamial—TJie New. C. E. Bcssey. (Am. Nat. xxiv. 278, 279). 



Professor Bcsscy, in a qiiict way, voices the disappointment 

 of all progressive botanists, that the Manual should have failed to 

 commend itself to any except those who are wedded to old and 

 rapidly decaying ideas. lie says: "The time-honored arrange- 

 ment of orders, time-honored genera, the time-honored rules as 

 to capitalization, punctuation and citation of authorities, are strict- 

 ly adhered to. The gymnospcrms are still wedged in between 

 monocotyledons and dicotyledons ; Carya is Carya still. * 



Nymphma is Nymphtva still. • * • We had hoped 

 for something different. Meanwhile we arc glad to get the book, 



for it was much needed." 



Mamial of the Botany of the Northerii United States. 



(Zoe, 1. 30). 



In this review of the new edition of Gray's Manual 

 viewer says : '* Very few names are changed, a matter of con- 

 gratulation in the present unsettled state of botanical nomencla- 

 ture. It will be quite time enough to make these changes in text 

 books and manuals when some degree of permanency shall have 

 been reached.'' We fail to see how permanency can ever be 

 reached, so long as compilers of text books and manuals are con- 

 tent to use any names that may suit their fancy. There is evi- 

 dently not a concensus of opinion between T. S. B. and the wri- 



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ter on page i of the same publication. 



Massangea hieroglyphica. (Garden, xxxvii. 244, illustrated). 



Mousses Nonvelles de LAmerique du Nord. F. Renauld et J- 



Cardot. (Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. xxviii. 125-134, tt. vii-ix). 



This is a translation of the description and a reprint of the 

 plates already published in the Botanical Gazette for April, 1889, 

 with the exception of a few additional remarks under Dicrannm 



Hoivellii, 



Mycological Notes. Geo. Massee. (Journ. Mycol. v. 184- 187, 



pi. xiv.) 



Stella Amerieana is described as a new genus and species, 



from Lower Carolina. 



Necessity for a Redescription of the Type Species in Kew Herha- 



riuin. B. T. Galloway. (Journ. Mycol. v. 215, 216). 



The author says : ** Thcreare over seven thousand type spec- 



