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lina, &c. where it takes the place of U. sessilifolia. To Prosarf.es 

 Mcnziesii, belongs of course Uvularia Smithii. The Sir ept opus ma- 

 culatus of Mr. Buckley, (described in Vol. xlv, p. 170,) forms a third, 

 and the most showy species of Prosartes ; as the flowers are nearly an , 

 inch long, and the perianth beautifully spotted wiih purple dots. It 

 may be thus characterized : 



Prosartes maculata : umbellis sessilibus bifloris, sepalis lanceolatis 

 acuminatis patentibus (albidis maculis purpureis conspersis) basi sac- 

 catis, staminibus styloque glabro perianthium subsequantibus. — In mon- 

 tibus ' Cumberland,' Tennessee, legit cl. S. B. Buckley. 



There seems to be no good reason whatever for separating S. roseus 

 from the genus Streptopus. 



A. G 



4. Endlicher, Mantissa Botanica, sistens Generum Plantarum Sup- 

 pkmentum Tertium. Vienna, 1843. — We noticed in Vol. xliv, p. 

 198, the preceding part of this valuable supplement to the excellent 

 Genera Plantarum : that for 1843 has just reached us. About one half 

 °f it is devoted to a thorough revision of the Alga, with a complete 

 enumeration of the species ; to which is appended an account of the 

 fossil species by Unger. The author has availed himself of the highly 

 important contributions to our knowledge of this tribe of plants which 

 have recently been made by J. G. Agardh, Meneghini, Montagne, 

 Kiitzing, and especially by DeCaisne ; but Kutzing's admirable Phy- 

 cohgia generalis (Leipsic, 1843, Gr. 4to, with 80 colored plates) had 

 not made its appearance when the sheets of this supplement were 

 Printed. A full Bibliotheca of algological writings is prefixed to this 

 part of the work, in which three hundred and seventeen authors in that 

 department are alphabetically enumerated. A revision of the Cype* 

 r «ce<e is promised for the Supplement for the year 1844. 

 s °ny that Prof. Endlicher still continues to change generic names 

 wf iich have been earlier employed in zoology ;— an endless task, if 

 fully carried out, and surely needless. But certainly Acanthocephalus, 

 Kar *h (non Helminthol,) should not be replaced by Harpocarpus, 

 (Endl. suppl. 3, p. 70, while there is an earlier genus of Composite, 

 bearing the essentially identical name of Harpacarpus. (Vide Suppl. 

 2 > P- 45.) And further, as priority in publication is always to be re- 

 garded, we protest against the adoption of the Engelmannia of Klotzsch, 

 to the exclusion of the prior Engelmannia, Torr. & Gr. published in 

 Nuttall's paper on Composite in the Transactions of the American Phi- 

 lo $ophical Society, which Endlicher here changes into the more eu- 

 phonious name of Angelandra; although lie at the same time recog- 

 ni2 es the undoubted priority of the American publication, by the 

 Oppression of Klotzsch's Tuckermania, in favor of the earlier one of 



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