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gracilis, N. tenuissimna, N. pygmaca, N. minuta, N. intermedia and 
N. Asagraecana. The text is full of interesting quotations and 
notes, several of which ought to encourage the collection of rare or 
undescribed species in many familiar Eastern localities, notably 
Green Pond, New Jersey, and Nantucket, Mass. We note in the 
case of NV. Leibergi the careful record made by the collector of the 
time and place of collection, but regret that this is not as exactly 
given inseveral other cases where it would be of great value. The 
illustrations are as handsomely lithographed, as Dr. Allen’s always 
are, but we regret a certain indistinctness and irregularity of letter- 
ing which mars several of the plates. E.G. B: 
The Bamboo Garden. By A. B. Freeman Mitford ; illustrated by 
Alfred Parsons. Macmillan & Co., New York, 1896. 
This is a work that will be welcomed by all plant lovers. It 
is a new departure in the way of ornamental gardening. Up to 
the last few years no one thought of introducing the bamboos in- 
to outdoor gardens; they were looked upon as belonging to the 
tropics, but the author has proved the possibility of making many 
varieties do duty as hardy plants. 
The work is written for the more favored portion of the British 
Islands ; there is no reason why it may not be just as useful in this 
country. On Staten Island several varieties have proved capable 
of resisting the cold of this latitude, and south of Washington 
many others would doubtless succeed if given a trial. 
The author is an enthusiast and carries the reader along in 4 
very pleasant way into believing as he does; he ridicules the at- 
tempts made of late years in copying a carpet, and other unnatural 
ways of planting for effect, advocates a return to the easy and 
graceful style of planting, and this he thinks can be helped by in- 
troducing the bamboo where available. 
Altogether it is a very useful work, and will be much sought 
after as an authority on the subject, for he gives a list of more than 
fifty varieties of bamboos available for the temperate garden. 
SAMUEL HENSHAW. 
Monographie der Gattung Euphrasia. Dr. R. V. Wettstein- 
‘Pp. 316. 7 cuts. 14 pl. 4 maps. Leipzig. 1896. : 
This exhaustive monograph touches on nearly every point a 
