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Amarella mexicana (Griseb.) n. comb.; Gentiana mexicana 
Griseb. Gen. Sp. Gent. 243. 1839. 
, Cirsium Flodmanii (Rydb.) n. comb.; Carduus Flodmanii Rydb. 
Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1: 451. 1900. 
J. C. ARTHUR 
REVIEWS 
Dinsmore's Plants of Palestine* 
Mr. Dinsmore's paper is practically a checklist of the plants 
now definitely known to occur in Palestine. From this list are 
omitted the various species and some genera heretofore credited 
to Palestine in Post's Flora of Syria, Palestine and Sinai and in 
the older Flora Orientalis by Boissier, now believed to be extra- 
limital, or included in other species under older names. А care- 
ful census of the first half of the list and of scattered genera through 
the remainder show that Mr. Dinsmore's checklist includes a few 
score species not credited to Palestine in the mentioned earlier 
floras. This number proves rather smaller than might be expected 
from a region where continuous exploration and collecting have 
given opportunities far beyond those available to the earlier 
writers. 
The arrangement, or classification, is that of DeCandolle, 
in the main, and follows almost seriatim the arrangement given 
in Post's Flora. The Latin names of families, genera and species 
are accompanied by proper abbreviations for the respective 
authorities, but there are no further references to the places of 
publication and occasionally a species is named after some author- 
ity where only close study of synonymy would show it to be not 
applicable to the original authority for the same name; in some 
cases referring to the same species, in others referring to different 
species. 
The species in Mr. Dinsmore's list are numbered and are ac- 
companied by five arbitrary signs which indicate the uses or 
* Dinsmore, J. E.—Die Pflanzen Palástinas. Auf Grund eigener Sammlung und 
der Posts und Boissiers, mit Beigabe der arabischen Namen von Prof. D. 
Dr. G. Dalman, pp. 1-122. J. C. Hinrichs’sche B Buchhandlung, Leipzig, тоїт. 
