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Alps” and an intimate acquaintance with ‘‘the sheltered coast 
_ he has known since 1859. He talks about plants and their 
, their uses, their le rege and ee with 
intelligence and in a pleasant readable and a good many 
amusing anecdotes diversify the nar bktte, “The illustrations, with 
the exception of those which represent some of the delights of 
Mr. Thomas Hanbury’s garden at La Mortola, do not add to the 
attractiveness of the volume, but this might be said of many books 
nowadays. We do not always agree with the author in his expla- 
nation of plant-names. For example, he supports ‘‘ beadstraw ”’ 
instead of “ bedstraw,” by saying that ‘‘a pious peasant who ha 
no rosary to hand might find the Galium useful” as a substitute ; 
E Jouis has published in no. a = the pene de Botanique 
for 1898, <a issued as a Soper aon a ‘* Protestation contre le 
Revisio generum plantarum IL1.*,” which he indignantly replies to 
the free eri ue Dr. Kuntze has ‘piles himself in with reference 
to his treatment of the nomenclature of Algw. The paper is too 
full of vrentatiees to be altogether ee reading, but there 
appears to have been provocation. Some of the con Seatous have 
regard (except aging as to gender) to the dominant or generic 
part. ‘The article in ay isto on Trifolium oa QO; K.; 
constituted as a Sonotioas creation, with the varieties « levieriantim, 
visio IIT.#. some confusion occurs (as was likely) in counegaao 
of two series of pages being each numbered in arabic nume: 
E have received the first number of Rhodora, the Jo acl of 
‘* editor-in-chief.” e number contains a monograph of New 
England Goodyera—a name which we are glad to see retained in 
preference to Peramium of Salisbury, whieh, although earlier, is a 
nomen nudum ; numerous notes on various groups of plants; an 
een a and figure of a new Lactuca—L. Morssii Robinson. We 
Fag new age every success. 
HE first part of the Archives de l'Institut Botanique of the 
Lidge U Gaiversity | (Braun 112, Rue de Louvain) is mainly devoted 
to the anatomy of the Ran unculacea, i in which Dr. Lenfant deals 
with the genus Delphinium, Dr. Mansion with Thalictrum, and 
Sterckx with the Clematidea, especially with Clematis Vitalba. Each — 
memoir is illustrated with numerous plates. . Gravis, who 
e Archives, contributes some ‘“‘ notes ique micro- — 
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