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Jamaica. — Bulletin No. 15 of the Botanical Department. 



(Pamph. 4to. pp. 8, Government Printing Est., Kingston). 



Contains memoranda upon sugar cane, Cinchona^ Coca, and 

 the various plants used for the extraction of " Sisal Hemp, 

 Lepidiiim VirHnictim. Z.. in Italia. 



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Aficora Sulla Snbspontan 



eita. L. Micheletti. (Giorn. Bot. Ital. xxi. 523, 524). 

 Lessons in the Structure, Life and Grotvth of Plants for Schools 

 and Academies. By Alphonso Wood ; revised and edited by- 

 Oliver R. Willis. (8vo. pp. 220, New York, 1889). 

 This book contains the introductory portions of Dr, Wood's 

 famous '^ Botanist and Florist,'* revised and, in part, entirely re- 

 written by Dr. Willis, and issued in a very attractive form. The 

 original edition was published over twenty years ago. The progress 

 of knowledge concerning all the more minute portions of vegetable 

 structures has been so great during that period that what was then 

 written has now become, to a very considerable extent, erroneous, 

 and correction and emendation have been necessary parts of the 

 editor's work. We have examined the book carefully and can say 

 without hesitation that he has done it well, and that it will stand 

 comparison with anything of the same scope which has preceded 

 it. The type is beautifully clear, the illustrations, for the most 

 part, capital (we do not like No. 526), and many of them new, 

 and the treatment of the subject clear and concise. We congratu- 

 late Dr. Willis and his publishers on the production of a school 

 book which must have a large sale. N. L. B. 



I^ythrnm. — The Genus, in California. Edward L. Greene (Pit- 

 tonia, ii. I1-13 : advance sheets). 



L. Californicum, T. & G., the widely distributed West Coast 

 species is now supplemented by L. Hyssopifolia, L. from two 

 localities and the charge made that it is obscurely lurking and 

 rare, which is quite as true of it on the east side of the conti- 

 nent; L. adsurgens, n. sp., from meadows near San Francisco 

 Bay, and L. Sanfordi, n. sp. from Stockton. 



Mucronoporus.-^A New. J. B. Ellis and B. T. Galloway. (Journ. 

 My col v. 141, 142, PL XII.) M, Everhartii is figured and 

 described. 

 Nymph(£ace<2. — On the. George Lawson. (Trans. Royal Soc. 

 Canada, vi. Sec. IV. g7-i2S; reprinted). 



