96 The Botanical Gazette. [Februay, 
forty-one species. Nine species are added to the state flora as here 
fore listed in Arthur’s “Contributions to the flora of Iowa” and Hitt 
cock’s “Catalogue of the Anthophyta and Pteridophyta of Ams’ 
They are the following: Echinodorus rostratus Engelm., Lophotocari” 
Sagittaria Arifolia Nutt., and Wolfia brasiliensis Wedd. It is am 
excellent piece of local botanical work. The data are very full ands 
critically considered that they can be taken as authoritative. Lo 
lists of this kind are most welcome, and their number should increst 
A CHARMING little book is that Professor W. W. Bailey has wrilit 
about Rhode Island wild flowers. It has the breath of the woot 
about it, especially as we follow the author to the “favored spo 
where grow the floral prizes. Like the trumpet to the war horse, ti 
book stirs us and arouses the desire to wander afield again and gate 
the treasures which used to awaken our earlier enthusiasm. With 
entertaining chapters go some of scientific value which record Rhot 
Island ferns and trees; but the book is primarily for the nature love 
A MOST COMMENDABLE and serviceable work has just been p» | 
lished on the bibliography of Italian botany by Prof. P. A. Saccatll 
Brief biographical items and the titles of chief works of 1434 Itil# 
and 287 foreign writers on the botany of the country are given. wl 
ever has been anticipated in Pritzel’s Thesaurus is referred tom 
not duplicated. The work also includes notes on all public, pee 
and educational botanic gardens, of which the number is surprisilf 
large, including a list of their publications. Some other matters as 
find place. 
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1 Bailey, W. W.—Among Rhode Island wild flowers. 12mo. pp. ii * *T 
Pl. 3. Providence: Preston & Rounds. 189s. . at : 
, -accardo. P. A.—La botanica in Italia: materiali per la storia di 
Scienza. 4to. pp. 236. Venezia, 1895. 10 fr. . 
