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perhaps too greatly increased. The Polemoniacece are admi- 

 rably worked out by Bentham, who has reduced to sections of 

 Gilia his Hugelia, Fenzlia, Linanthus, Dactylophyllum, Lep- 

 tosiphon, Leptodactylon, and the Ipomopsis, Michx. The 

 elaboration of the Convolvulacece by Professor Choisy does 

 not appear to give entire satisfaction to botanists. The term 

 " infelicissime intricatus " is perhaps still applicable to their 

 family ; and the genera are probably unduly increased in 

 number. Of the Borragiiiece, printed from the elder De 

 Candolle's manuscripts, with valuable notes and additions by 

 the editor, we have the first three tribes, namely, Cordiece, 

 Ehretiea^^ and Heliotropece, But for the true Borragece 

 we must wait until the appearance of the tenth volume, which 

 is already in press. 



The long-expected eleventh volume of this work was pub- 

 lished at the close of November last, or rather in December, 

 and is now in the hands of botanists throughout Europe and 

 America. It comprises, first, the Orohanchacece, by Mr. 

 Renter of Geneva ; the true genera of which are Epiphegus 

 of the United States ; Phelipsea, containing thirty-eight sjiecies 

 of the Old World, and two of North America west of the 

 Mississippi; Conopholis (for the Orohanclie Americana^ L.) ; 

 Orobanche of over ninety species belonging to the temperate 

 regions of the Old World ; Boschniakia of two liigli north- 

 west American and Siberian species ; Clandestina of one south 

 European species ; Lathraea of two Old World species ; and 

 Anoplanthus, Endl. (Anoplon, Wallr.), which is made to 

 embrace not only the three genuine species of North America, 

 but also a separate section corresponding with Anblatum, 

 Endl., of two sjDccies of Central Asia. The earlier recent 

 name of this last genus is Gymnocaulis, Nutt. ; the next is 

 Anoplon, by Wallroth. This was changed by Endlicher to 

 Anoplanthus, because there is an Anoplon in zoology — an 

 insufficient reason — with which, however, we need not trouble 

 ourselves, since all three must give way to the early and ex- 

 cellent name of Aphyllon, founded by Mitchell, and published 

 in 1748, on the typical species afterwards called Orobanche 

 uniflora by Linnaeus. This name, the revival of which is 



