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contributions to agrostology by workers in our own country. We 

 cei-tainly had a right to expect something beyond a re-issue of the 

 old slieets with a slightly different binding — for such is the book 

 now under review. If the transfer of the sheets from a New York 

 to a London house means that the translation was selling badly 

 because English workers are quite able to use the German original, 

 we are glad ; for the sooner our systematists recognize the fact that 

 ability to read German is an essential towards good work, the 

 better for them and the better for botany. A translation, under 

 such circumstances, is an edition tie luxe, a weakness for which may 

 be pardoned. To the wealthy and extravagant, who possess not 

 the American issue, we would heartily recommend the one in 

 question at the present moment. 



" True Grasses " are what we understand by the natural order 

 Gmmineip. of Bentham & Hooker's Genera Plantanim, and the 

 arrangement adopted by Bentham in that work is the basis of 

 Hackel's system. After the number of each genus, the translators 

 insert its number in Bentham's arrangement. This facilitates 

 reference, and shows the diversity between the two systems. It 

 also shows what a very excellent piece of work Bentham's was, 

 considering the material at his disposal, and the confusion in which 

 he found this most difficult of orders. For it is surprising to note 

 what a great amount of agreement there is in the limitation of 

 genera in the two cases. As Sir Joseph Hooker points out in his 

 introductory remarks to the GraminecB of the Flora of British India, 

 it is in the reduction of species and the working out of synonyms 

 that the student of the family will find that his work chiefly lies, 

 and the painstaking manner in which this has been done in the 

 two recently published portions which form the completion of the 

 Indian "Flora" make the monograph of Graminece perhaps the most 

 valuable in the whole work. 



A. B. E. 



ARTICLES IN JOURNALS.- 



A7in. Scottish Xat. Hist. (Jan.). — J. W. H. Trail, ' Florula of 

 waste ground at Aberdeen.' — A. Bennett, '■ J uncus tenuis in Wester- 

 ness.' — S. M. Macvicar, ' Flora of Eigg.' 



Bat. Centralblatt (No. 1). — S. Ikeno, 'Vorliiufige Mittheilung 

 iiber die Spermatozoiden bei Ci/ras revoluta.' — (Nos. 1-3). W. Fut- 

 terer, ' Zur Anatomie und Entwickeluugsgeschichte der Zitu/ihera- 

 cea: — (Nos. 2-3). S. Hirase, 'tJber das Verhalten des Pollens von 

 Ginhjo biloha.' — (Nos. 2-4). E. Kiister, 'Die anatomischen 

 Charaktere der Chrysobalaneen ' (1 pi.). 



Bot. Gazette (Dec. 24). — B. T. Galloway, 'A rust and leaf 

 casting of pine leaves ' (2 pi.). — L. H. Bailey, ' The Philosophy of 



* The dates assigned to the numbers are those which appear on their covers 



or title-pages, but it must not always be inferred that this is tlie actual date of 

 publication. 



