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" Forsellesia " and " Bourdonia " for the genera known to us as 

 Glossopetalon and Keerlia, of course with transference of the 

 species as well as genera to the credit of the author. The third 

 instance, more aggravated than even the first two is the trans- 

 ference of Calj'canthus L. to Butneria Duhamel, which if 

 adopted would lead to the changing of the large Sterculi- 

 aceous genus Buettneria. No species was ever named under 

 Duhamel's Butneria, and Mr. Greene fails to inform us how he 

 succeeded in satisfying himself that it had priority over Beureria 

 Ehret published in the same year, and taken up by Kuntze. 

 Lotzis sidpluireus and L. tomentosus are supplied with new names, 

 the author's attention having been called in Zoe for April to their 

 previous use, but Lotus macrantlms is still unchanged. Astrag- 

 aius campestris Gray is changed toyi. <:t'«z'a//<a;r/z/5 Greene because 

 of A. campestris L. — now known as Oxytropis campestris, and A. 

 pectinatus Boiss., a Syrian species is to be called A. elegantulus 

 Greene, though the author has not the least idea whether it is a 

 valid species or not. The remainder of the pages are occupied 

 with the doings of American botanists at Madison, which are 

 discussed elsewhere. 



The November number under Novitates Occidentales describes 

 seven new species of which, waiving for the present the question 

 of their value, Astragalus demissus Greene, is a homonym of 

 Boissier's species published in 1849 in Diagn. PI. ser. i, No. 9, 

 page 50. and Saxifraga iimbettata Greene bears the same rela- 

 tion to a species of Hooker & Thompson Journal Linnaean 

 Society, ii, (Bot.) 71 (185S). We note for most of the species 

 the usual vagueness of station; Mr. J. G. Lemmon gives some 

 notes on Piniis insignis and P. tuberculata, which he would 

 have called respectively P. radiata Don and P. attemiata 

 lyemmon; Mrs. Blochman continues her interesting Herb-I^ore 

 notes; and Mr. Greene laments over Baron von MUller's com- 

 ments on Polanisia which " show that he wholly misapprehends 

 the characters on which Rafinesque's Jacksonia is based, though 

 we have twice announced them very distinctly in Pittonia." 



K. B. 



Revisio Genermn Plantarum Part III. By Otto Kuntze. 

 So far as this part is concerned the title is a misnomer. It is 



