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American plant-names, compiled from various. trustworthy sources 
y Mrs. Fannie D. Bergen. It is intended as a preliminary to a 
complete collection of these names, which it is hoped may do for 
the United States wine the Dictionary of English Plant-names has 
done for iB Britai 
Mes St oe and R. Lloyd Preger have published in 
the tareer eee of the Royal Irish Academy (8rd Series, ii., No. 2) 
a full and interesting ‘Report on the Botany of the Mour. - Moun- 
tains, Co. Down,” from which we make an extract on p. 2 The 
nomenelatore is somewhat odd: e. g., ‘* Lepidium smithii ‘(Linn } 
Tue price of the Kew Bulletin has been raised to fourpence 
monthly. The contents of the November number are entirely 
economic. 
NEW magazine, to be oe be to Orchids, is announced 
to AppeAE on the Ist of Janu There are already a large 
number of Sunday newspapers, bk a Sunday Oke of this 
class is a novelty, and, as it seems to us, an undesir 
chid Revi 
Messrs. R. A. Rolfe and F. Leslie. Mr. Rolfe’s connection with 
ill be of great advantage to the new venture, and the 
“e ere of Orchids,” which have appeared somewhat out of place 
in the Kew Bulletin, ath no do ubt form an important and appro- 
sei Prete of The lew’, 
A new monthly magazine, to be called Hrythea, will begin with 
the new year. It will be under the direction of members of the 
Botanical Department = -_ University of California, the editor 
ete Mr. —— L. Jep: 
obse T Grate a note that “ the statements respecting 
[its]  aonctetneahip that have appeared in the Journal of Botany 
and elsewhere are entirely imaginary and incorrect.’”’ The point is 
one of the very slightest importance, but, so far as we are con- 
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OBITUARY. 
We greatly regret to record i death of CurisrorpHer Parke 
mitH, an authority of prominence in the study of British Muse. 
ne@, especially Hepati ce. He was born at Brighton on the 18th 
October, 1835, and began to work at botanical subjects (at first 
flowering plants) in 1858, the year of ar \bout 
twelve yeas = this date he acquired the herbarium of the late 
Mr. E. Jen A.L.S., and particularly after this ric) congas 
himself with ‘Gatbvlikinah to botanical pursuits. His ur and 
energy as a collector brought him te communication ope corres- 
