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NOTICE OF BOOK. 
Nova Synopsis Ruborum Germania et Virginie. Pars I. [Mono- 
raphical contributions to the knowledge of the genus Rubus, 
especially of the Brambles of Germany and Virginia. By 
nst H. L. Krause, M.D. First Part. Quarto; pp. 105, 
tabb. 12. Saarlouis, 1899; published by the Author. Price 
13°60 marks. ] 
and ma e have formed tolerably sound and reasonable 
opinions about the value which can be placed, broadly speaking, 
on our ed species. The prolific Rubus-flora of a tl a 
identify the Rubus-forms observed in England and Scotland with 
those of N. Germany” leads one to suppose that his researches were 
not very thorough. 
The title of the work at once betrays a defective sense of pro- 
portion: it is not easy to see why one of the United States should 
be thus tacked on to Germany, nor could a single visit to Virginia 
qualify the author for attem ting a monograph of its brambles. 
A sentence from the prospectus illustrates his mental attitude :— 
of 
] ith ’ 
also of equal value with the universally acknowledged Central 
Kuropean species of Salix.” This assertion is incapable of proof; 
a glance at his « Synopsis specierum’’ shows its absurdity, to say 
nothing about the test of experience. So far as Britain is con- 
cerned, no genus approaches Rubus in complexity of forms, excepting 
Hieracium ; Carew or Salix may perhaps come third, but at a great 
distance, 
Dr. Krause was formerly a disciple of Dr. Focke, whose Synopsis 
