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this important " Contribution." Among tliem is a new 

 Bolandra and a new Sullivantia from Oregon, both very 

 much like (we fear too like) the original species. Here and 

 in the Bibliographical Index, the name Sullivantia Ohionis 

 is changed (perhaps accidentally) to S. OJuoensis. We 

 knew of no law against genetive names of geographical more 

 than of other places or stations, and such are not extremely 

 uncommon. The name Ohionis was purposely chosen, and 

 we hope may be retained. 



The interesting new Erigoneous genus Hollisteria, discov- 

 ered by the enthusiastic Mr. Lemmon (in San Luis Obispo 

 County, east of the Coast Range), is of rather doubtful in- 

 terpretation as to some points of structure. The inflorescence 

 we suppose to be only seemingly axillary, the involucre is 

 possibly a genuine trimerous one, and we take the two small 

 stipule-like leaves to be real stipules, — a point which the 

 published character does not decide, though it is implied in 

 describing the leaves as alternate. 



Being one of the most important of recent contributions to 

 North American Botany, this publication deserves even a 

 fuller notice than we can here give it. 



DE CANDOLLE'S PHYTOGRAPHY. 



Valuable as the present volume ^ is, it may very probably 

 not be translated into English. So we propose to give a run- 

 ning account of its contents, adding here and there some brief 

 comments, critical or otherwise. Treatises like this can be 

 written only by botanists of long experience ; and long ex- 

 perience, founded upon good training and accompanied by 

 good judgment, gives the right to speak with a certain author- 

 ity, particularly upon v;riting and publication in systematic 

 botany, in which rules and method are most important. De 



1 La Phytographie, ou VArt de decrire les Vegetaux consideres sous 

 differents points de vue. Par Alphonse De Candolle. Paris, 1880. 

 (American Journal of Science and Arts, 3 ser., xx. 150, 241.) 



