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of critical plants, a stronger tendency towards specialism, and greater 
facilities for exploring remote regions, have resulted in a large 
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aggregate addition to our list.’ e ninth edition count 543 
genera and 1,958 species, as aap’ the 542 genera and 1,858 
species of the eighth editio ‘Changes in nomenclature are, 
unfortunately, again numerous. It could hardly have been other- 
wise,’ as Mr. Hanbury says. But there must bea finality even in this 
department, greatly to be desired. If we stick rigidly to the rule of 
priority—the genera not being accepted farther back than the year 
1735, when Linnzus published the first edition of his Systema Nature, 
and the sfecies farther back than 1753, when Linnzeus first established 
the binominal system, now universally current, by the publication of 
the first edition of his Species Plantarum—a fixed nomenclature will 
be the result. The folly of following any other rule is aptly 
illustrated by the five names we have for one genus—Auda, Lepigonum, 
insta 
even worse confusion in Weckeria ( = 8th ed. Corydalis). Rosa, Rubus, 
and Hieracium are worthy of our present information, Sa/ix especially 
so, thanks to the lists of Messrs. White and Linton. The Batrachian 
Ranunculi, on the other hand, are most disappointing. Have nine 
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edition of the London Catalogue faithfully. All our larger floras are 
far behind date at the present time, and a mere list of names—many 
of them new—is absolutely useless without the specific pee 
and distinctions they represent being known and ‘get-at-able’ 
a convenient form.—E.A 
— AND NEWS. 
Another of Mr. a Massee’s valuable contributions to our rope oe of 
fungi lies before us in a reprint from the March number of the ‘ Annals of Botan 
The paper is ‘A Revision of he ends Cordyceps,’ and it is well prone by a 
double-page plate. These are the fungi so om a as parasitic on insects, 
which Dr. Cooke lately gave us a popular acco’ 
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he have again the pleasure of noticing one of the solid = useful contributions 
to our knowledge of the habits and life-history of marine are the 
made on examples dredg he Mink seas. It would oe difheult to over- 
estimate the value of such jeseasehias as are embodied in this fuk 
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