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upon the collections made on the western coast by the 

 Wilkes Exploring Expedition has at length been published 

 by the United States Government, under the editorship of 

 Dr. Gray. It forms a large quarto volume, and is illustrated 

 by a number of finely engraved folio plates. 



A Flora of Colorado has been published in connection with 

 Professor Hayden's reports, prepared by Professor T. C. Por- 

 ter and Dr. J. M. Coulter. Notes by Dr. C. C. Parry upon 

 the botany of Western Wyoming, with descriptions of new 

 species, the result of his collections the previous year in that 

 region, and by Dr. J. G. Cooper upon the botany of the Cuy- 

 amaca mountains in Southern California, have appeared in 

 the "American Naturalist," with articles by Dr. F. Brent- 

 nel on the distribution of oaks and the origin of the vegeta- 

 tion of Florida. Catalogues of Lieutenant Wheeler's collec- 

 tions, made in 1871-73 in Southern Nevada and eastward to 

 Colorado, add somewhat to the knowledge of the plants ~ 

 that section. A catalogue of the plants of New Jersey has 

 also been published by O. R. Willis, with notes upon many 

 of the species. 



In Europe, among the English botanists, Dr. J. D. Hooker 

 has finished the second part of the Flora of British India, in 

 which he was assisted by Edgeworth, Masters, Dyer, and oth- 

 ers, and which continues the polypetalous orders through the 

 Geraniacece. J. G. Baker has made revisions of the Tidipew, 

 including the numerous American species of Calochortus, 

 Fritittaria.) Liliwn, etc., and of the Asiatic species of the 

 genus Allium, while the fungi of Ceylon have been elab- 

 orated by Berkeley and Broome. The collections made on 

 the Challenger expedition by Mr. Moseley at various islands 

 in the Atlantic Ocean, from the Bermudas to Kerguelen Land, 

 have been carefully worked up, and the results have ap- 

 peared in the Journal of the Linncean Society. In France, 

 M. Baillon has continued his "Monographies" by one upon 

 the genera of the Saxifrar/acece, in which he includes the 

 Platanece / Franchet and Savatier have begun an enumera- 

 tion of the plants of Japan, assisted by Maximowicz of St. 

 Petersburg; and M. Planchon has made a study of the vine 

 and its enemy, the Phylloxera, visiting the United States for 

 the purpose. An interesting essay by Alphonse de Candolle 

 proposes the division of the vegetable kingdom into certain 



