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lina, &c. where it takes the place of TJ. sessilifolia. To Prosartes 

 Menziesii, belongs of course Uvularia Smithii. The Streptopus ma- 

 culatus of Mr. Buckley, (described in Vol. xlv, p. 170,) forms a third, 

 and the most showy species of Prosartes ; as the flowers are nearly an 

 inch long, and the perianth beautifully spotted with purple dots. It 

 may be thus characterized : 



Prosartes maculata : umbellis sessilibus bifloris, sepalis lanceolatis 

 acuminatis patentibus (albidis maculis purpureis conspersis) basi sac- 

 catis, staminibus styloque glabro perianthium suJjsequantibus. — In mon- 

 tibus ' Cumberland,'' Tennessee, legit cl. S. B. Buckley. 



There seems to be no good reason whatever for separating S. roseus 

 from the genus Streptopus. A. Gr. 



4. Endlicher, Mantissa Botanica, sistens Generum Plantaruvi Sup- 

 plementum Tertium. Vienna, 1843. — We noticed in Vol. XLiv, p. 

 198, the preceding part of this valuable supplement to the excellent 

 Genera Plantarum : that for 1843 has just reached us. About one half 

 of it is devoted to a thorough revision of the Algce, with a complete 

 enumeration of the species ; to which is appended an account of the 

 fossil species by Unger. The author has availed himself of the highly 

 important contributions to our knowledge of this tribe of plants which 

 have recently been made by J. G. Agardh, Meneghini, Montagne, 

 Kiitzing, and especially by DeCaisne ; but Kiitzing's admirable Phy- 

 cologia generalis (Leipsic, 1843, Gr. 4to, with 80 colored plates) had 

 not made its appearance when the sheets of this supplement were 

 printed. A full Bibliotheca of algological writings is prefixed to this 

 part of the work, in which three hundred and seventeen authors in that 

 department are alphabetically enumerated. A revision of the Cype- 

 racece is promised for the Supplement for the year 1844. We are 

 sorry that Prof. Endlicher still continues to change generic names 

 which have been earlier employed in zoology ; — an endless task, if 

 fully carried out, and surely needless. But certainly Acanthocephalus, 

 Karel, (non Helminthol,) should not be replaced by Harpocarpus, 

 (Endl. suppl. 3, p. 70, while there is an earlier genus of Compositse, 

 bearing the essentially identical name of Harp cecar pus. (Vide Suppl. 

 2, p. 45.) And further, as priority in publication is always to be re- 

 garded, we protest against the adoption of the Engelmannia of Klotzsch, 

 to the exclusion of the prior Engelmannia, Torr. & Gr. published in 

 NuttalTs paper on Composit83 in the Transactions of the American Phi- 

 losophical Society, which Endlicher here changes into the more eu- 

 phonious name of Angelandra ; although he at the same time recog- 

 nizes the undoubted priority of the American publication, by the 

 suppression of Klotzsch's Tuckermania, in favor of the earlier one of 



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