159 



Bttckleya distichophylla. C. S. Sargent (Garden & Forest, iii. 



-36. fig. 37)- 

 California Canon.— In a. C. H. Shinn. (Garden & Forest, iii. 



21 1-212). 



An account of the vegetation in Morrison Canoii. 

 California.— Native Shrubs of— III. E. L. Greene. (Garden & 



Forest, iii. 198, 199). 



Notes are given upon Garrya elliptica and Rihcs temtiflorum. 

 In regard to the latter species, the author says that it has gener- 

 ally been confused with R. anrenni, from which it is, however, dis- 

 tinct, the flowers being entirely scentless and its berries large, 

 cherry red and without aroma. 

 Californian Plants. — Nczv. J. G. Lemmon. (Pittonla., ii. 67- 



69). 



Prnnus sfibcordata, var. Kelloggii ; Arctostaphylos Parry ana, 



and Allium obtitsum, all from California. 



Catalogue of Plants Found in Nctv Jersey. N. L. Brit ton, Ph.D., 

 with the Assistance of the Botanists of the State and Con- 

 tiguous Territory, and of Specialists in the Several Depart- 

 ments of the Science. (Final Report of the State Geologist, 

 ii. pp. 25-642. Reprinted. Dated 1889. Issued May, 1890). 

 Of this work we can .say, as did P^naeas of the battle of Troy, 

 " all of which T saw and a part of which I was." Since the dis- 

 tribution of the interleaved copies of the Preliminary Catalogue 

 of the Flora of New Jersey, nearly a decade since, this work has 

 occupied the attention of perhaps a larger number of careful ob- 

 servers than have ever given their special attention to any similar 

 local study. The author's introduction does not contain a list of 

 these CO -laborers, for the probable reason that it would have in- 

 cluded the name of almost every working botanist in and about 

 the State of New Jersey. More than one man has trodden his 

 first steps in the paths of systematic botany since the appearance 

 of the Preliminary Catalogue, and has progressed until able to 

 contribute his mite to the finished work ; and upon the other 

 hand, the book is enriched by the mature studies of such men as 

 Porter, Martlndale, Redfield and Canby. But these contributions 

 alone could never have given us such a work as lies before us. It 

 is much more than a mere compilation of the observations fur- 



