868 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, 4c. 
Tue Thirteenth Report of the Missouri Botanic Garden is mainly 
occupied by a revision of the Yuecew by the Director, Mr. William 
Trelease, of which we hope to say more next month. A new genus, 
Samuela—dedicated by the author to his ceittle son Sam Farlow 
Trelease, who in the springs of 1900 and 1902 accompanied and 
specific name: what will the Rochester codists say to this? The 
volume is, as usual, profusely and admirably illustrated. 
We are glad to notice an improvement in the spelling of the 
English notices in the Botanisches Centralblatt, but there is cag 
abundant room for further advance. In no. B4, for example, 
A. L. Batters is disguised as “EH. G. L. Balters, % aiid the Ft 
‘appeared ” is divided into two equal parts. On another page of 
the same hamper, localities and authorities are indistinguishably 
printed—e. « Oldenlandia apse Salisbury, Cynanchum precov 
Schlechter ’ the former bei a place and the latter a person. 
Prof. Bower's name appears am nong the editorial staff at the head 
of each number, and it may be suggested that proofs of the notices 
relating to English work should be referred to him or their author 
for revision. 
Tue Rey. E. Paque, 8.J., has published (Wesmael- -Charlier, 
Ines a ‘4 lore laine et deco iptive des Provinces de Namur et de 
Lua The work includes the commoner cultivated ee 
gs is tea by 841 not very satisfactory figures, apparen tly 
taken from various sources. 
Tue Flora Arctica, edited by Dr. C. H. aap which the 
first part, containing the eee Wink Gymnosperme, and Mono- 
cotyledones, by O. * Geler and C. H, Ostenfeld, pe fatale been 
published at Copenhagen, i is to contain the whole of the Flowering 
Plants and Ferns of the Arctic Regions ‘north of the Wood 
boundary.” The whole of Greenland is included, but Iceland 
and the Scandinavian Peninsula are left out. This of course makes 
some difference in the range in Europe and Asia; in the latter the 
—T vegetation is much less rich in species. The figures are mostly 
ood, but it seems a pity that the examples selected for drawing 
should be from countries not included—e. g. Iceland, Norway, &e. 
Soc. xxiii. pp. 251-348, 1860). The printing is clear and distinct; 
the Gusaeeca. so far as one can test them offhand, are distinctive 
and clear, and the — decidedly helpful. With regard to the 
eee probably if the herbaria of this country could have been 
sulted it would have resulted in many additions—thus Potamo- 
panei sie us Balb. occurs in Alaska; P. rie as L. must come 
very near in America, fs Lewis River, lat. 62°,” &. A curious slip 
oceurs in a date at p. 72: “C. gracilis Curt, Fl. Lond. 1877-87; 
p. 282 ’’—the date of this is about 1788. The volume, when com- 
tiated, will be a valuable contribution to Arctic Botany.—A. B. 
