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description. The following species are described, five of which are 

 new: Sminthti7-us Eisenii, n. sp.; .5". luteus Ltibbock; S.niger Lub- 

 bock; S. plicatus, n. sp.; Papirius maculosus, n. sp. ; Tomocerus sp. ; 

 Entomobrya nivalis L. ; E. nmltifasciata Tullb. ; E. marginata 

 Tullb.; Sira purpurea, n. sp.; Drepayiura calif ornica, n. s^.; Or- 

 chesclla rufescens Lubbock; Isotoma vi?'idis Bourl; / pahish-is Miil- 

 ler; Achorutes armatus {^\co\zX); A. vialic2is TuWh.; Xenyllamari- 

 tima Tullb.; Liprira iyiermis Tullb.; or, in all, about 18 species. 

 The paper is handsomely illustrated. G. E. 



Revisio ge?ierum plantarum vasculariuni omnium, atque cellular- 

 ium, muliarum, secundum leges noynenclaturce internationales, cum. 

 enicmeratione plajitarum i?i itinere mundi colleciarum. Mil Erlau- 

 terimgen von Dr. Otto Kuntze. 



This book is likely to serve a most useful purpose — it shows to 

 what extent zeal without discretion may carry a reformer, and inci- 

 dentally may make clear to a few American botanists, ardent makers 

 of synonyms, their inability to cope in such matters with those who 

 are able at any time to consult the great libraries of Europe. 



Dr. Kuntze, in his journey round the world, collected a few 

 thousand species, and in working them out to his satisfaction, changes 

 about thirty thousand names. The means by which he arrives at 

 this result is the rather radical one of taking for his point of depart- 

 ure an earlier work of Linnaeus than the one generally adopted. 



Another method of changing genera which he uses with consid- 

 erable effect is the substitution of older sectional, for more recent 

 generic names. This though the logical outcome of the practice of 

 some American botanists in the matter of varietal names is as re- 

 pugnant to common sense as a claim of priority founded on the 

 distribution of named sets. 



The license, which the author allows himself, ot modifying (cor- 

 recting as he terms it) generic names, is not likely to meet with 

 acceptance. The principle of priority will appear to most per- 

 sons to be as absolutely overthrown by substituting Cumaruna, 

 Catutsjeron, etc., for Coumarouna, Katoutsjeroe, etc., as by making 

 entirely new names. The principle is the same, the violation differs 

 only in degree, and the inconvenience resulting from the alterations 

 in indexing is the same. 



A considerable number of his generic changes will probably be 

 concurred in, though not in the scrambling manner in which they 



