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is taken and the other left. A similar case of partial citation occurs 

 with regard to vol. v. of the Bvletim da Sociedude liroteritma ; two 

 plants therein described — Proidcnuis thomensis Henriques (p. 20G) 

 and Ctenium Newtonli Hackel (p. 229) — are not in the Consijcctus. 

 The names of Welwitsch's Apontanientos nve in m lu y cases left out, 

 as will be seen by comparing the Conspectus with the article on 

 these in our present number. Ilcewanthus bivaivis and Littonia 

 Hardegi/eri, described by Dr. Giinther von Beck in Paulitschke's 

 Harar (1888), are not included, and the work does not appear to 

 have been consulted. 



Misprints are almost absent, though Sporubolus Melleri (p. 822) 

 should be Molleri. It may be well to supply the number (714) of 

 the Welwitsch plant on which Reichenbach founded his Habenaria 

 huHlensis; it was (evidently by accident) omitted from his description, 

 but the plant was written up by him in Welwitsch's herbarium. The 

 index seems to have been carelessly revised, and contains many 

 wrong references. 



We venture to take exception to the citation of this Journal 

 (p. 245), &c., as " Britt, Jouin. Bot. 1878," not only because the 

 abbreviation "Britt." is open to misunderstanding, but because as 

 a matter of fact the present editor did not occupy that position in 

 the year cited. Tiie quotation of our volumes by the names of the 

 editors is not only unnecessary, — "Jouvu. of Bot." and the year 

 amply sufiice, — but very frequently inaccurate, notably in the Flora 

 of Britisli India.* 



Our high opinion of the value of the Consj-iectus will have been 

 sufficiently manifest from what has been said : it only remains to 

 express our hope for its speedy completion. 



James Bkitten. 



Flora of ycbrasha. Published by the Botanical Seminar, University 

 of Nebraska. I. Introduction. Part i. Protophyta — Pliyco- 

 phyta. Part ii. Coleochsetacefe — Charace*. Lincoln [U.S.] . 

 1894. 8vo, pp. 128 ; xxxvi plates. 



The University of Nebraska has undertaken, by its Botanical 

 Seminar, a great work, and we wish it strength to carry it through. 

 It is going to describe the entire Flora of the State, freely illus- 

 trating the lower plants, and to complete the book in twenty-five 

 parts, at a dollar the part. AVe have here the first instalment, and it 

 bears the marks of resolution, and an independent desire to hold its 

 course. Its course is not always that of other floras, and in a 

 monotonous life one does not wish it to be so ; and honestly, where 

 it exhibits novelty, it is often an improvement. We had hoped, 

 however, that in the classification of the Cryptogams the day had 

 gone past when Fungi and Alg^ were mixed up in the bad style of 

 the Sachs Textbook. It was bad enough in a morphological 

 treatise ; it is vexatious in a flora. On this side of the Atlantic 

 systematic students have rarely leisure or longevity enough to 



* E.g. vol. iv. pp. 81, 648, 659, where " Trimen Journ. Bot. 1868 " is cited; 

 Dr. Trimen did not become editor until 1872, 



