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respecting the general habitat and full range within the State, 
of all the species. The territory embraced within the 
boundaries of West Virginia is very likely, as the author 
surmises, as promising a field for botanical research as can 
be found in any part of the United States east of the Missis- 
sippi. Anyhow, the zeal of Dr. Millspaugh and the success 
which has followed his few years of labor there, would have 
rendered interesting many a district eastward whose vege- 
tation has not yet been catalogued. This neat and handy 
volume numbers more than five hundred pages, and the list 
of plants is carried through the lower Orders, while a Fossil 
Flora Supplement concludes the whole. 
Next toa full descriptive Flora of a state or county, there 
is no better stimulus to local botanical investigation than 
publications like this; and we shall hope that Dr. Millspaugh 
may eventually be enabled to complete a descriptive hand- 
book of West Virginian botany. 
It is scarcely necessary to state that the author is governed 
by principle rather than by time-honored bad precedent, in 
the matter of nomenclature. The botanists of the United 
States are, as a body, so rapidly conforming to principle, that 
few if any are left to exemplify the old irregularities. But, 
as there are not only new species diagnosed in this volume, 
but new binary combinations made, the author should have 
been more particular about his date of publication. The 
title-page bears the date of “June, 1892.” We suppose the 
actual appearing of the volume was made a half-year later 
than this, at the least. We hope the author will give us pub- 
licly the exact date of issue. It is really important.—E. L. G. 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. 
Dr. ANsTRUTHER Davinson, of Los Angeles, has issued a 
printed list of the names of plants found growing spontane- 
ously within the county of Los Angeles. The species are 
