, 1893.] Open Letters. 35 
the Pringle collections of 1890 and 1891, and has just published* some 
of his results. Nearly forty new species are described, the majority 
of which are Composite. Two new genera are proposed: Coultero- 
phytum, a genus of umbellifers belonging to Se/imee; and Geissolepiss 
a genus of composites belonging to Galinosogee. We regret the 
omission of the index, which always made Dr. Watson’s contributions 
so easy to use, anda thing which Dr. Gray never would provide. 
OPEN LETTERS. 
The meeting at Madison in 18938. 
No one need fear that there is not enthusiasm among the botanists 
of America. There isan unlimited supply of botanical enthusiasm 
a 
photographic views of the different botanical laboratories of the 
country. Let the gathering together of this exhibit be placed in the 
fe) 
advertised thoroughly so that the exhibit will be a complete one and 
acreditable one. To the “distinguished foreign guests” promised us 
by the Gazerre such an exhibit would c 
science who are unable to get beyond the notions of their childhood 
about botanical methods and still believe that the botanist is a man who 
analyses flowers and busies himself principally with the beauties and 
incidentally with the sterner realities of Nature. My old friends the 
from their sectional meetings of the refining, broadening and inspir- 
ing influence of the botanists. 
_ And even the leaders of the zoological wing might be afforded some 
information that would be of value to them by such an exhnbit. I 
*Rosinson, B. L.—Descriptions of new pfants collected in Mexico by C. G. 
Pringle, in 1890 and 1891, with notes upon a few other species. (Reprinted 
rom Proc. Am. Acad. 27. pp. 165-185.]. 
