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the naming of British plants, it may be well to call attention to the 

 grounds on which Buda (revived by Duniortier in 1827) is super- 

 seded by Tissa (revived by Prof. E. L. Greene in 1888). In a 

 review of Dr. Sereno Watson's edition of Gray's ' Manual of the 

 Botany of the Northern United States,' published in the ' Botanical 

 Gazette ' for March last, Prof. Trelease writes as follows : — " It is 

 to be regretted that Spergularia of the old edition appears in this 

 edition as Buda and not Tissa. The priority of the latter, to be 

 sure, is only that of a few pages of a book, both being used in the 

 same work by one author ; but the birthright of Tissa is not 

 invalidated by this fact, and its use in a recent monograph by Dr. 

 Britton, prior to the appearance of the Manual, is an additional 

 reason for its use there as a means of avoiding an increase in the 

 number of synonyms." As I have already pointed out in this 

 Journal, * the two names occur on the same page of Adanson's 

 ' Famille des Plantes,' so that the " birthright " of the two is equal, 

 and neither can claim priority; while the objectionable " increase 

 in the number of synonyms " is due, not to Dr. Watson but to Dr. 

 Britton, who deliberately ignored Dumortier's restoration, sixty 

 years before, of a name having equal claims with that preferred by 

 himself. — James Britten. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 

 Articles in Journals. 



Bot. Centralblatt (No. 14). — R. Herse, ' Zur Entwickelungs- 

 geschichte der Hypogaeen.' — (Nos. 14-16). M. Willkomm, ' Vege- 

 tationsverhaltnisse von Traz os Montes.' — (Nos. 15-17). R. Keller, 

 ' Beitrage zur schweizerischen Phanerogamenflora.' — A. Allescher, 

 ' Ueber einige aus dem siidlichen Deutschland weniger bekannte 

 Sphasropsideen und Melanconieen.' — C. Warnstorf, ' Sphagnum 



degenerans var. immersum. 1 . Correns, ' Zur biologischen Anat- 



omie der Aristolochia-Bliite.' . Hartig, ' Ueber Trametes radici- 



perda.' 



Botanical Gazette (March: issued April 12). — S. B. Parish, 

 'Botany of Slover Mountain.' — M. S. Bebb, 'North American 

 Willows.' — F. Renault & J. Cardot, ' New Mosses of N. America ' 

 (2 plates). — D. C. Eaton, Heuchera WilUamsii, sp.n. — J. N. Rose, 

 ' Notes on some Western Plants ' (Chorizanthe Vaseyi Parry & Rose 

 (1 plate), Erigeron Ticeedyana & E. Parryi Canby & Rose, Pentste- 

 won Tweedyi Canby & Rose, spp. n.). 



Bot. Zeitung (Nos. 13-15). — H. Solms-Laubach, ' Die Spross- 

 folge der Starigeria und der iibrigen Cycadeen.' — (No. 16). P. 

 Sorauer, ' Mittheilungen aus dem Gebiete der Phytopathologie.' 



Bull. Torrey Bot. Club (April). — J. Macoun, 'Contributions to 

 Canadian Bryology.' — N. L. Britton, Rusby's S. American Plants 

 (new species of Miconia and L'lidemia). — B. D. Halsted, 'A New 



Journ. Bot. 1888, p. 261. 



