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orders the stupendous and too thankless task which the author has undertaken. 
The employment of the American system of citation is notable-—C. R. B. 
Das Pflanzenreich.°—Of this work parts 22 and 23 have lately appeared, 
including respectively the Primulaceae by Pax and Knurs, and the Halorrha- 
gaceae by SCHINDLER. The rate at which these monographs are appearing is 
remarkable, and shows something of the energy of the editor and his sagacity 
in the selection of his collaborators. The publisher’s part, too, is admirably 
done—C., RB, 
Eucalyptus.— Marpen’s revision’® has now reached part 7, which includes 
EE. regnans, vitellina, vitrea, dives, Andrewsi, and diversijolia, and is illustrated 
by four plates.—C. R. B 
NOTES FOR. STUDENTS. 
Items of taxonomic interest —ZAHLBRUCKNER lists (Beihefte Bot. Cent. 19?: 
75-84. 1905) the lichens collected by Professor D, H. MreveEr in the Ecuador 
highlands in 1903, describing six new species.—Carpor (idem 85-148. figs. 39) 
enumerates 125 species of the mosses of Formosa, collected by Abbé Faurre in 
1903, bringing the total known species of this island to 130, of which 39 are 
new. Herpetineuron (C. Mill. as Anomodon §) is raised to generic rank.— 
ENGLER describes (Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 37: 95, 96. 1905) a new genus of Araceae, 
Ulearum, and in his tenth contribution to a knowledge of the Araceae, (idem) 
adds to the family nearly a hundred new species, chiefly from Central America, 
the subequatorial andine province, the Philippines, and East Indies——Drere1, 
in his sixth paper on Japanese Uredineae (idem 97-109) describes 16 new species, 
and in one on Japanese fungi (dem 156-160) ten others.—RADLKOFER (idem 
144-155) describes 8 new species of Serjania and 8 of Paullinia (Sapindaceae) 
from Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, and Columbia.—StTEPHANI (Bull. Herb. Boiss. IT. 
5: 885-900, 917-946. 1905) in his Species Hepaticarum concludes the treatment of 
the genus Plagiochila, describing 26 new species, a number of them from equa- 
torial America.—Domn (idem 947, 948) describes 2 new species of Koeleria from 
Asia, and BEAUVERD (idem 948) a new Burmannia from Brazil and (g90-991 
a new Hesperantha from the Transvaal.—FERNALD characterizes (Ottawa Nat. 
19: 156. 1905) a new variety of Antennaria nevdiica Green from E. Quebec.— 
SCHNEIDER, in a prodromus to a monograph of Berberis (Bull. Herb. Boiss. 
II. 5: 139 ff. 1905) recognizes 159 species, among them a number of new ones 
of his own creation, which he divides into 21 sections. The regions of their 
9 ENGLER, A., Das Pflanzenreich. Heft 22, ere by F. Pax and R. 
KnurH. pp. 386 Ae. 75 (311), maps 2. M 19. 20.—Heft 23. Halorrhagaceae by 
ANTON K. SCHINDLER. pp. 133, figs. 36 ae M 6. 80. Leipzig: Wilhelm 
Engelmann. oer 
10 MAIDEN, J. H., A critical revision of the genus Eucalyptus. 4to. pp. 183-205, , 
pls. 33-36. Sydney: Government N. S. Wales. 1905. 2sh. 6d. 
