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classification and description which he intends to follow. In a small 
group like the Hepatice, there should be no difficulty in having ah 
this ready before beginning the publication, and its att it by hi 
readers would give them a more intelligent interest in the 
must take exception also to the 1 method of willing some plant 
names adopted by Dr. Carrington. is first genus Scalius he quotes 
as of ieee Bennett. But the cn, atural Arrangement of British 
Plants,” is by S. F. Gray, and there is in the work not the slightest 
indication that he was not the sole author. No one could ever trace 
ius in. ‘‘ Gray and Bennett’s Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl,” for no such work 
exists. Scalius must always be quoted as established by S. F. Gray, 
even though Dr. Carrington and others have ascertained some fifty 
years after the publication of the name that the work was chiefly 
prepared by Dr. J. E. Gray, and that in the Hepatice he had the assist- 
ance of Edward Turner Bennett, who in his zoologicat memoirs gave 
high promise of an illustrious future which was too suddenly cut 
re 
4 quoted n spite, however, of such blemishes, the book, to judge 
from this first part will be a most useful one to English sale api 
Botanical News. 
7 ' ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 
American sexe: oe —J. G. Cooper, ‘‘ Botany of Cuya- 
aca Mountains.’ arry, ‘* Botanical Observations in Western 
Wjomine” ee ee in No. for March). 
APRIL. 
a evillea.—J. M. Crombie, translation of Nylander on Schwen- 
les hypo ae is, nutrition : chens, &c.—M. J. Berkeley, N. 
American Fungi” (contd.).—E M. Holmes, “ “ Bryological Notes.” 
Scottish Naturalist.—J. Ke ith, « List of Fungi in the Province 
of Moray ” (contd.),—H. M. Drummond-Hay, ‘¢ Flowering Plants of 
in se of Gow: Perthshire.” —J. Fergusson, ‘* Bryological 
Quarterly Journ. Microsc. Seience.—W . Archer, ‘¢ Further resumé 
recent ena on the Gonidia haeesnaad 
Mont. thly Microsc. Journ.—R. Braithwaite, ‘'On Sphagnum acuti- 
fon, Ehrh,” (tab. 57, 58).—T. Taylor, “ Fungus of the Hawthorn, 
lia lacerata, Tul. ; Geidium lacerata, Gr ev.” 
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Bap y) Sse eee es A 
b- 
n Soc. (April 25th.) —J. D. Hooker, ae Su 
‘pine Vegetation of oe. (Apt jaro, E are “On a 
ge of Barbadoes” (pl. xi., Rhipilia i). aie 4 
oa “No the Development of the Sa ae ae oo soe 
—W. T. Thiselt er, ‘On the Pert : 
o Carer (pl. 12).—J "E. aa ey «On the Genus Cinchona.”—G. 
