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of the various orders, suborders, families, and tribes as understood 
by the authors above mentioned, after which come the generic 
relating to distribution, a posisaty of Sms aie a goo 
This is not the place to criticize the slaaeifioation Dr. ‘Dhoni 
classification. To take one instance—his morning’s haul may 
include specimens referable to ee Saxifragee, Pitto- 
sporea, Hamamelidacee, Platanacee, Rosacee, and Leguminose, 
ese 
rsosat ayes twenty-one saad will easily be understood. 
however, he has overcome these difficulties and discovered the 
“family” to which a plant belongs, the book will doubtless be of 
great service, for although letterpress arrangement into sub- 
families and tribes is faulty, inasmuch as it does not smtheddibely 
arrest the eye, st salient jeatntos of the genera are set out with 
— — 
carpe ils one notices that Hiernia is transferred to 
the ee gamit of Pse udosopubia in Scrophulariacee. Professor 
Engler is the authority for this; but seeing that he referred to 
Scrophulariacee, Zenkerina, ‘an undoubted Acanthad of the tribe 
Nelsonie@, some hesitation might have been expected before his 
lead in this matter was followed. Camarotea is retained among 
the Ruellieg, although its true position is now known to be near 
Isoglossa. This last is made to include Melittacanthus, a pro- 
ceeding quite uncalled for and not what one would expect to find 
in a compila tion he case of Siptiaeid: raises an interesting 
nd by Baker in the Flora of Tr fires apriéa, its retention as & 
distinct genus would seem advisable, at least for the present. 
enlandia; Forsythiopsis is as certainly a bad one, having no 
characters to distinguish it from Ruttya. 
