us BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 



Plii/llanthus Caroliniarms, Euplwrhia polygonifolia, Ipomea Pes-caprse, 

 and Batatas Uttoralis. The last is in the same genus with the sweet 

 potato which it closely resembles in tlower and mode ol' growth. The 

 leaves are thick but rather small, and probably present as great va- 

 riety of form as any known plant. The daylight fails us ere we finish 

 our search, the moon has risen, and the light-house fires begin to 

 shine through the darkness. A parting stroll along the shore and 

 we will bid it farewell. The sandy waste gleams white in the moon- 

 light with a cold wintry aspect. Listening to the voices which arise 

 from the dark abyss of waters, we hear tales of centuries past, when 

 (quaintly built ships from Spain and France sought these shores and 

 upon them landed mailed warriors and adventurous cavaliers. For 

 more than three centuries the armies of foreign nations fought for 

 possession of the "llowerv land," while the title of each was disputed 

 by a warlike race of Indians. But they have all passed away, and of 

 all scarcely a relic remains. This bloody epoch in the history of 

 Florida is ended and this favored region, where so much of human 

 life and energy has been wasted, has at last become, as designed by 

 nature, an as3dum for suffering humanity. Thousands do now resort 

 to this land of perpetual verdure, seeking, not like De Leon, for a 

 fountain of immortal youth but for renewed health and prolonged 

 life. 



Alternanthera lanuginosa in Kansas. — Among some collections 

 made by Mr. I. C. Martindale and myself in Central Kansas last sum- 

 mer, I find Alternant] ler a lanuginosa of Torrey in the Mexican Bound- 

 ary Survey. I am not quite sure of the location, but it was between 

 Fort Harker and Fort Hayes. I have seen this enumerated in no list 

 of Kansas Plants, and I suppose it has not been found anyAvhere near 

 so far north before. — Thojias Meehan, Germantouni, Pa. 



Bentham on Nomenclature. — In the American Journal of Science 

 and Arts for April, Dr. Gray gives a review of Bentham's "Notes on 

 Euphorhiacene^'''' in which some remarks on nomenclature are made. 

 They are so timely and interesting that we cannot refrain from pub- 

 lishing them. 



The general laws of nomenclature of our da3% and the principles on 

 which they rest, are laid down in the code which was reported by 

 Alphonse DeCandolle to the Paris International Convention, in the 

 year 1867, and being approved, was published with a commentary in 

 the autumn of that year, and in an English translation e'a.r\y in the 

 ollowing year. The laws, without the commentary, Avere printed in 



