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And now, there was I think little or no working here from 
the bibliopole standpoint on the species question. It appears 
as if there must have been an honest purpose to describe all the 
known vegetation of the territory embraced, regardless of the 
cost of printing, and in trust that the work would nevertheless 
be a success financially; and in this there was no disappointment 
if one may judge from the number of new impressions that have 
been made within the 9 years since the first issue was given forth. 
I am unwilling to put a period to the expression of these 
thoughts without adverting to another manual; one which, as 
to the great cost of publication, and the author’s apparent in- 
difference to the risk of pecuniary loss or gain, ought to be dis 
tinguished and celebrated as in contrast to the penuriousness 
that governs manual making under corporate institutions that rol 
in wealth. Need I name, after such preamble, the book and its 
author? Certainly I mean Dr. John K. Small’s Flora of the 
Southern States. Printed in good style, on good paper, it is a 
volume of almost 1400 pages of purely descriptive botany; and 
I can not doubt that in the printing, it has been the most costly 
—even by far the most expensive—one volume of such work 
that has been issued in this country; and at'the low price at which 
the book has been sold, I do not see how the author could have 
expected to make profit. It may well be that the principal invested 
has by this time been restored; certainly very little of the interest 
on it, if any at all. It is a great piece of good fortune to the botany 
of that subempire, our South, that an able and zealous botanist 
can afford to do his chosen work, and issue his splendid volume 
without descending to take the unscientific and bibliopole aspect 
of the species question, and can not go down to that abject view- 
point, the clansman’s outlook on the same. 
A New Genus of Rubiaceae. 
J. A. NIEWLAND. | 
The genus Galium of Linnaeus is composed of several distinct 
types of plants, as, for that matter, are most of the Linnaean 
genera. It is a composite of several older ones, especially A parine 
and Galiwm proper, both names originating with the ancient 
