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that we have learned of late j'ears that plants 

 are almost as restless as man. They are con- 

 tinually on the move, and the very term " in- 

 digenous" has to be limited to modern times. 



According to this list there are now known as 

 indigenous to Indiana 1,432 species and 577 

 genera. Among some recently suggested changes 

 here adopted, the critical botanist will notice 

 his old friend the " Pearl Everlasting'' Gnaph- 

 alium, or Antennaria margaritacea, has been 

 removed by Bentham and Hooker to AnaphaJis. 

 It is now Anaphalis margaritacea. This genus 

 was made manj'- years ago by De Candolle to 

 cover a dozen or more of old time Gnaphaliums 

 of the East Indies, and this change gives 

 America a representative in this Indian family. 



Indian Corn. — An essay by Prof. Beal. This 

 is another of those little pieces of excellent work 

 which Prof. Beal is continually performing. One 

 might read a heavy volume on corn, and not 

 learn more than is taught here. A point which 

 interested us very much in this paper is that 

 though the effects of crossing will often be 

 shown in the grain of the same season, it is not 

 always so. Sometimes the characteristics of the 

 male parent do not appear in the seed till the 

 succeeding generation. This is a very impor- 

 tant fact which Prof. Beal should have the 

 full credit of discovering. Even the fate of a 

 lawsuit might hang on such knowledge. 



General Index to the Nine Eeports on the 

 Insects of Missouri. — By Charles V. Eiley. 

 Published by the United States Entomological 

 Commission. 



The great want of the age is the indexing of 

 the facts brought to light of late years. Socie- 

 ties and public bodies year after year give to the 

 public " original papers," which are in no sense 

 new, but a sheer waste of time and money to 

 publish ; and chiefly for want of good indexes, 

 few know what is new. The government can 

 do no more useful work than issue papers like 

 these. 



A Glimpse at Michigan Horticulture. — By 

 Charles W. Garfield, Secretary of the State Hor 

 ticultural Society. This should have been enti- 

 tled Michigan Pomology, for it deals with this 

 single branch of horticulture. It shows a won- 

 derful advance in fruit culture in the State, and 

 how well the State is adapted to fruit growing. 

 Mr. Garfield concludes his able remarks by ob- 

 serving : 



"Michigan has a motto upon her coat of 



arms. Si quccris pemnsulum ammnam circumspice — 

 If you wish to see a beautiful peninsula, look 

 about you. That is no flaming advertisement 

 of exaggerated proportions, but is a simple in- 

 troduction to those who enter our borders, the 

 apparently complimentary language of which 

 is found by every visitor to be a truthful state- 

 ment. 



"The old derisive songs that told of ague, 

 marshes, rattlesnakes and wolverines as the 

 natural products of Michigan, are not sung any 

 more ; and none visit the peninsular State who 

 do not go away with pleasant accounts of her 

 climate, soil, productions and people." 



The Hessian Fly.— By Dr. A. S. Packard, Jr.; 

 being Bulletin No. 4, United States Entomologi- 

 cal Commission. Published by the Department 

 of the Interior. 



This is another of the very useful treatises 

 published by the United States Government for 

 which the people will thank their representa- 

 tives. 



No. 5 of the same series is by Dr. Cyrus 

 Thomas, and treats of the chinch-bug. 



The Wild Garden; or, our groves and gar- 

 dens made beautiful by the naturalization of 

 hardy exotic plants ; being one way onward 

 from the dark ages of gardening, with sugges- 

 tions for the regeneration of the bare borders of 

 the London parks. By Wm. Robinson, London, 

 and New York, Scribner & Welford. 1881. 



This heavy title reminds of the revival of 

 learning, indeed, when the mighty warriors in 

 the cause of truth, issued their "Sandy foun- 

 dations shaken," or " Satan attacked by his own 

 sword," or some other equally valiant book 

 which carried defiance on the very title page. 

 Yet we sympathize heartily with the object of 

 the work, and hope it will be the means of not 

 only inducing a greater love of hardy exotics, 

 but also for the many pretty native plants in 

 which British woods abound. 



Mr. Robinson's books are always as beautiful 

 as they are useful, and this, to say the least, is no 

 way behind any of its predecessors. We hope 

 it will have a large sale, both in this country as 

 well as in the old world, aiding, as we are sure it 

 must, a genuine love for flowers. In perusing 

 its beautiful and instructive pages, the only thing 

 we are sorry for is to find that Mr. Robinson is 

 not yet convinced that his well-meant efforts to 

 avoid the use of hard Latin words of plants are 

 only leading to unutterable confusion. We had 

 hoped it would have stopped with the Garden, 

 and not have found a place in a work of such 



