EDITORIAL. 
Many Botanists in the United States have felt that the time has 
come when it would be profitable to make a compact and complete 
Presentation of the North American flora, so far as it is known. It is 
thought that such a work will make information so accessible that 
study will be stimulated and knowledge developed much more rapidly. 
Such a work does not represent the end of investigation so much as a 
ation for its more vigorous prosecution. It is with this purpose 
ertain botanists now announce that arrangements have been per- 
fected for the publication of a “Systematic Botany of North America.” 
that ¢ 
Stapher wi] Onsistent nomenclature will be adopted, but each mono- 
OF si a ne responsible for his own matter. It is hoped that five 
X parts will appear annually, beginning with 189s. 
the hi but feel that this large undertaking marks an epoch in 
d extensive organization, and the large response al- 
ifies to a fine fraternal feeling among American 
but the ‘ieee “e very nature of things such a work will be uneven, 
Yelopedi “nness will be no more noticeable than that of our great 
it will also q There can be no doubt that in the course of Sp agg 
bespeak for ag many. new investigators of our varied flora. : 
monument to als the widest co-operation, that it may be made ee 
datum tine f : “hte and industry of American botany and a notable 
Made Tom which Subsequent advances can be more rapidly 
