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reviewers with a bias arc employed that we reproduce some of 



them here : 



*' The autlior of this book," says Mr. Murray, '* deserves the 

 hiHicst credit for his sjood intentions. * * * The plan of the 



book and the idea of producing it are most creditable to Mr. 

 Cooke, but he should have induced someone else to carry the 

 matter into effect. * * * Over the ground covered by the 

 Ust of subjects there is, indeed, wanted a good, trustworthy, popu- 

 lar guide. Mr. Cooke would have been the better for such a 



guide. 



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In defense of his work, Dr. Cooke contents himself with re- 

 printing Mr. Murray's review in " Grevillea," and pointing out 

 the fact that Mr. Murray is an officer of the Botanical Department 

 of the British Museum, while he, himself, is similarly attached to 



Kew. 



N. L. B. 



Index to Recent American Botanical Literature. 



Adies grandis. A. D. Webster. (Garden, xxxviii. 291, illus- 



trated). 

 AcrosticJunn Yatesii, Sodiro, R. P. Luis Sodiro. (Anales Univ. 



Quito, iv. No. 29). 



A new fern, related as A, succis(Efolia, Thonars, discovered 



on Mt. Pinchincha, Ecuador, and dedicated to Dr. Lorenzo G. 



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Yates. 



Asclepias Uiherosa. (Vick's Mag. xiii. 309, 310, illustrated). 



Aspleniiun blepharodes, a new Fern from Lozver California, D. 



C. Eaton. (Zoe, 1. 197. Plate VII). 



A species allied to A, parvulnm collected by Mr. Prandegee 

 at Sierra de Laguna In January, T889, differing from that species 

 in its stouter habit, and especially in its beautifully ciliate indurium, 

 that of A. parvuluni and other allied species being nearly or 

 quite entire. 

 Azolla Caroliniana. (Proc. Nat. Sci. Assn. S. I., Oct. 9th, 1890. 



At the meetincr held on the above date, Mr. Thomas Craig 



showed specimens collected near Clove Lake, Staten Island, 

 where it had been introduced by Mr. Samuel Henshaw in 1885. 

 The plant is evidently thoroughly established in its northern 

 home. 



