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We are glad to learn that the rnmoiir that only German botanists 

 were to be engaged on Prof. Engler's Das Pfianzenreich is incorrect. 

 The elaboration of JSaias for that work has been entrusted to Dr. 

 Rendle. 



Mr. a. a. Heller has issued a second edition of bis Catalogue 

 of North American Plants Xorth of Mexico, exclusive of the lower 

 cryptogams, which brings the enumeration up to Nov. 10, 1900. 

 It is arranged in accordance with Engler and Prantl's Pjianzen- 

 familien, the author being of opinion that *' the universal acceptance 

 of the change from the obsolete arrangement of Bentham and 

 Hooker" is "understood by all." The work of recent describers 

 and nomenclaturists is fully recognized, as may be gathered from 

 the fact that on one page (171), out of 79 numbered names, 60 are 

 assigned to Prof. E. L. Greene, and 7 to Mr. Aven Nelson. Mr. 

 Heller, finding that " a number of new combinations would have 

 to be published in order to secure uniformity of treatment," prefaces 

 his work with five pages of them : these subsequently appear in the 

 body of the book with the name " Heller " appended. It seems to 

 us that such alterations should be reserved for a work other than a 

 mere list of species, such as is this Catalogue, even supposing such 

 changes ultimately to be necessary. The work is well printed on 

 one side of the page, the other being left for additions and corrections. 

 It would be well in future editions to print the name of the order 

 and the genus at the head of each page, as is done in the British 

 Museum publications. No publisher's name appears on the title-page. 



The first number of his Muhlenben/ia — a new journal which, 

 with commendable frankness, Mr. Heller announces as "issued at 

 irregular intervals " — is entirely devoted to further changes in 

 nomenclature, and indeed is "issued somewhat prematurely" in 

 order to make room for them. These changes " were crowded out 

 of the Catalogue, enough space not having been provided in that 

 work to accommodate all of them." We are entirely in accord with 

 Mr. Heller in thinking that " the bare citation without discussion 

 in most cases is undesirable " ; and if " lack of time forbids a more 

 extended treatment of the different species under consideration," 

 we do not think botanical science would suffer were the changes 

 postponed until they could be properly investigated. 



The activity of our transatlantic friends is manifesting itself in 

 the establishment of botanical magazines, often small ones, in 

 various centres. The latest is Torreya, " a monthly journal of 

 botanical notes and news edited for the Torrey Botanical Club by 

 Marshall Avery Howe." It is dated January, but did not reach us 

 until early in February. There are short papers on Eudbeckia hirta 

 by Dr. Britton, on seedlings of Ariscema by D. T. MacDougal, and 

 on Lycopodinm by F. E. Lloyd, and others. The number contains 

 sixteen pages. 



Mr. Stanley Coulter, in his Catalogue of the Flowering Plants 

 and Ferns indigenous to Indiana (from the 24th Annual Report of 

 the Department of Geology and Natural Resources of Indiana), 



