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Plants and Animals, 1835, is wrongly placed by De Candolle among 

 the yellow-flowered species of the second section. It has purple flowers 

 and should stand next U. purpurea. The name U. Greenei, Oakes, 

 in Hovey's Mag. must stand as a synonym ; as there is no good reason 

 for changing the prior name imposed by the discoverer. 



The order Primulacece is elaborated by M. Duby of Geneva ; who 

 follows Endlicher in the general distribution of the family. From some 

 inadvertance, Glaux maritima is 

 Naumburgia thyrsiflora, Mcench, 

 L. capitata, Pursh. The L. revolt 



thyrsijli 



plant. 



Jongifc 



Pursh. The common Samolus of the south western United States, which 

 has smaller flowers than the true S. Valerandi, is referred to S.fioribundus, 

 H. B. K. S. ebracteatus, is not noticed as a plant of the United States, 

 although it is common along our southern borders ; nor is it distinguish- 

 ed even as a subgenus, although, on account of its nearly free ovary and 

 want of sterile filaments, a recent writer (M. Baudo, in Ann. Sci. Nat., 

 ■Wee. 1843,) has separated it, to form his genus Samodia. In the Myr- 

 *inace<z, elaborated by the editor, we meet with two North American 

 species, both natives of Florida, viz. Myrsine Floridana, Alph. DC, 

 and Ardisia Pickeringia, Torr. & Gr. To the small order Theophrasta- 

 w®, Alph. DC, our author has joined Jacquinia, a West Indian genus, 

 °ne species of which extends into Florida. In the order Sapotacea, the 

 editor has proposed one new North American species of Bumelia. In 

 bbenacea, we have only our Persimmon. From this, the order Sty- 

 rac e<z (embracing Symplocinfce and Halesiacece of Don,) is distinguish- 

 6(1 cll iefly by the position of the cells of the ovary opposite the lobes of 



e ca, y x - Hopea is kept as a mere section of Symplocos ; including a 

 °zen Asiatic species as well as our S. tinctoria. 



The order Oleacece is published from the manuscripts of the late Prof. 

 ~e Candolle. The American species of Fraxinus still require the la- 

 1)018 of a monographer. 



The order Jasminea is made to comprehend Bolivaria, (of which 

 there is at least one Texan species,) and Menodora; and the family 



Bol ^ariacece is shown to have been founded upon misconceived char- 

 acters. 



p or the elaboration of the Apocynacea, we are indebted to the younger 

 e Candolle. The only North American genera are Amsonia (is not 



Echites Fr 



aseri, 



Walt 



difformis, DC.,= Echites diffi 



The order Asdepiadece has been very faithfully studied by De Caisne. 



the North American representatives belong to the tribe of True As- 

 c e Piade<p, with the exception of Gonoloius, of which we have several 

 s Pecies, (one of them, collected bv Dr. Short, forms the new G. tiliafo- 



