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cess it deserves, it will not be long before a second edition will be 
required, which should also be an augmented one. 
It is particularly gratifying to note that for the first time in any dic- 
tionary the much abused words “ fungoid” and “ fungous” are cor- 
rectly defined and their proper usage indicated. 
The book is admirably printed and bound, and makes a convenient 
reference volume. 
Minor Notices. 
West Vircinia has been incompletely explored, and containing a 
knot of mountains that is neither ee nor southern, botanists have 
long regarded it as very desirable territory. Even a hasty survey has 
yielded rich results, as Dr. Millspaugh’s Preliminary Catalogue', now 
before us, will testify. It will-be impossible for us to note all the in- 
teresting features of the flora. The nomenclature used is practically 
in accord with the Rochester rules, and several combinations appear 
for the first time. The catalogue includes not only all the observed 
existing flora, from Clematis to Epicoccum, but a supplement presents 
to us the rich fossil flora of the State. Quite a number of new species 
are described, the two plates illustrating a new moss and a new 
liverwort. The list contains, exclusive of the fossil flora, 1,189 species of 
phanerogams, 39 pteridophytes, 107 bryophytes, and 164 thallophytes, 
1,499 in all; to which number may be added numerous varieties and 
forms. Dr. Millspaugh has been unfortunate in his state printer, a 
thing with which others who print without proper control of the 
proof can sympathize. 
Tue Conirers have long occupied the attention of the distinguished 
editor of the Gardeners’ Chronicle, Dr. Maxwell T. Masters. There 
are now before us two reprints? containing some of the results of his 
labors. The Chiswick address is a very interesting presentation 
of this important group of plants, and its completeness may 
be judged from the following captions: antiquity, genealogy, 
stages of growth, physiology, movements, etc., practical illustrations, 
beauty of form and color, stature, utility, nomenclature, introduction 
of species into cultivation, economic value. 
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iMitispauGcu, CuarLes F.—Flora of West Virginia. Bulletin No. 24 of 
W. Va. Agricultural Experiment Station, Morgantown, W. Va. 1892, pp- 
314-538, with two plates 
*MastTers, MAxweLu T—( Some efeatures of interest in the order of 
Conifers, being an Introductory address at the Chiswick Conifer Conference 
(Oct. 1891), [Reprinted from Jour. Roy. Hort. Soc. XIV, pp. 20.] (2) List 
of Conifers and Taxads in cultivation in the open air in Great Britain and Ire- 
land. [Reprint, 1. c., pp. 80. 
3-—Vol. XVIII.—No. 1. 
