188 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
with Silene, and there is already a Silene Behen L. (Sp. 
Pl. 418). The name latifolius is thus the earliest name 
available for the species and should not be rejected. 
Art. 36.—For the present article substitute: “The publication of 
names of new groups is valid only when they are accom- 
panied by a diagnosis preferably in Latin, but permissively 
in English, French, or German.” 
Art. 39.—Eliminate the last sentence. 
Rec. XX.—Eliminate all after “ diagnoses.” 
A. B. REenpuwe. 
JAMES BRITTEN. 
E. G. Baker. 
A. & E. 8S. Gepp. 
W. E. St. Joun Brooks. 
Wim Fawcerrt. 
SPENCER Moore. 
’ Annte Lorrain Smita. 
REVIEWS. 
Les Iles Canaries: Flore de lV Archipel. Par J. Prrarp et L. 
Proust. 8vo wrapper, pp. 502; 19 plates. Paris: Klinck- 
sieck. Price £1. 
Tuts useful and needed addition to the steadily extending 
number of local floras will be weleomed by students of botanical 
geography as well as by systematists. The fine and costly work 
of Webb and Berthelot was not easily accessible, and was con- 
subject. 
In the volume before us, the phanerogams and vascular erypto- 
Dr. Négri and in the hepatics that of M. Corbiare. Another 
volume, which will be finished by the end of the year, will contain 
the alge, by MM. Borzi and De Toni, and the lichens, by M. Pitard 
with the plants characteristic of each, the types—divided into 
“ ubiquistes,” “ méditerranéo-canariens,” and “ endémiques”’ (these 
