BOTANICAL NEWS. 185 
Of foreign plants that have been introduced into Britain, the fol- 
lowing are given in the 'Manual' as certainly naturalized :— 
Melilotus parviflora, Desf. Claytonia perfoliate, Bonn. 
Trifolium hybridum, L. Galinsoga parviflora, Cav. 
(Enothera odorata, J acq. 
Erucastrum Pollichii, Schimp., and Erin** alpinus, L., at least for 
the present, are kept as aliens not really naturalized. 
Besides the changes in the nomenclature of the genus Arctium, in 
accordance with Professor Babington's published opinions, we find our 
Muscari determined to be M. neglectum, Guss., and we part with 
regret from the familiar name of our pet grass, Knappia agrostidea, 
Sm., and substitute for it, by the inexorable law of priority, the per- 
haps somewhat more euphonious name of Mibora minima, Guss. 
Everywhere throughout the ■ Manual ' there is evidence that Professor 
Babiugton continues to be an active critical botanist. Too often the 
comforts and duties of a university chair divert its occupier from those 
labours which were the stepping-stones to the honourable position. 
No indications of carelessness or oversight can be detected in this edi- 
tion, but it is obvious that the most exact attention has been given 
both to what is added and to what is omitted. Many of the emenda- 
tions that are introduced into this edition will escape the observation 
of those who do not institute a verbal comparison between it and the 
la st. It is interesting to notice how the text becomes more and more 
exact in each successive edition. 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Dr. Seemann has just returned from his recent tour to Nicaragua, and brings 
w 'ft him a complete set of the plants of the Chontales gold region. 
Professor TJnger's " Sunt en Island of Atlantis" has been translated from 
0l »- Journal into Spanish by Mr. A. Ernst, and published as a pamphlet in the 
c,t y of Caracas, Venezuela. 
SchlechtendaPs journal, the « Linnsea,' will be continued bj Dr. Garcke, of 
Berlin. 
Our readers will be glad to learn that the eminent services rendered by the 
***■ M. J. Berkeley to science, and especially to botany, as applied to horti- 
, tUre and agriculture, have been recognized by the present Government, 
P a «ng him on the Civil List pensions for an annuity of £100. 
Uenry Trimen, M.B. (Lond.), F.L.S., has ben appointed Lecturer on Botany 
the Medical School attached to St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington. 
