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the continent during the war with France, and the firm establishment of 

 the Linnoaan artificial system consequent upon the great popularity of 

 Smith's Flora of Britain, &e. " At the conclusion of the war," says 

 Mr. B., " we had become so wedded to the system of Linnaeus, and it 

 may even perhaps be allowable to add, so well satisfied with our own 

 proficiency, that, with the honorable exception of Mr. Brown, there was 

 at that time scarcely a botanist who took any interest in, or paid the 

 least attention to the v classification by natural orders, which had been 

 adopted in France, and to the more minute and accurate examination of 

 plants which was caused by the employment of that philosophical ar- 

 rangement. * * * * The publication of so complete and valua- 

 ble a Linnsean work as the English Flora, greatly contributed to the 

 permanency of this feeling ; and accordingly we find that, at a very 

 recent period, working English botanists were unacquainted with any 

 of the more modern continental floras, and indeed, even now, many of 

 those works are only known by name to the great mass of the cultiva- 

 tors of British botany." The author has adopted Koch's plan of dis- 

 tinguishing the essential and diagnostic portions of the specific charac- 

 ters by italic type, which thus strike the eye at a glance. The author, 

 or, perhaps we should say the printer, seems quite undecided whether 

 to write specific names derived from persons with a small initial, as 

 recommended in the report of the committee on nomenclature to the 

 British Association; or with a capital initial, according to common (and 

 proper) usage ; for in this manual both modes are followed in about an 

 equal number of cases. A. Ge. 



9. Kunze's Supplemente cler Reidgrciser (Carices) zur Schkuhr^s 

 Monographic, &c. Part 3d, (Leipsic, 1843.) Plates 21— 30.— The 

 third part of Prof. Kunze's valuable continuation of Schkuhr's Carices 

 contains' good figures of the following North American species ; viz. 

 C. rnfina, Drejer; C. nardina, Fries (— C. Hepburnii, Boott. in Hook.;) 

 C. subspathacea, Hornem. (=C. bracteata, Giesecke? C. salina, var. 

 Wahl. C. Hoppneri, Boott.;) C. Wormskioldiana, Hornem. (z=C. Mi- 

 chauxii, Sclnueinitz ;) C. Careyana, Dewey; C. aestivalis, M. A. Curtis; 

 and C. stylosa, Meyer (z=C. nigritella, Drejer.) We also learn that 

 the well-marked Carex stenolepis of Torrey must needs bear the name 

 of C. Frankii given by Kunth ; as there is a prior C. stenolepis estab- 

 lished by Lessing (Reise durch Norwegen, etc.) so long ago as the year 

 1831 ; although Kunth does not mention it in his Cyperographia, pub- 

 lished six years latei\ As if to increase the confusion of synonymy, 

 we find that the name of this species is changed to C. Shortii in Steu- 

 del's Nomenclator Botanicus, cd. 2, the anterior C. Shortii of Dewey 

 being omitted. — It may be remarked that Dr. Knieskern has lately 



