396 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Gray's New Manual of Botany. A Handbook of the Flowering 
Plants and Ferns of the Central and North-eastern United 
States and adjacent Canada. Rearranged and extensively 
revised by Benzamin Lincoun Rosinson, Asa Gray Professor 
of Systematic Botany in Harvard University, and Merritt 
Lynpon Frrnaxp, Assistant Professor of Botany. Seventh 
Edition, Illustrated. 8vo, cl., pp. 926; 1036 figures in text. 
ew York, Cincinnati, Chicago: American Book Company. 
‘Price 2 dollars 50 cents. . 
HIS new and “extensively revised” edition of a book which 
_ made its first appearance sixty years ago and which of late years 
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own little group of islands have long had three British floras at 
their disposal, it cannot be regarded as superfluous, notwithstand- 
ing the existence of Dr. Britton’s Manual, which has for the last 
and Hooker to give place in any new British flora. But there are 
he chief of which is the introduction into 
the text of the new “Gray” of more than a thousand small but 
I and everything is 
in one alphabet—a time-saving arrangement which should be 
t 
Dr. Britton in his Manual has adhered to the nomenclature of 
what is known as the “Rochester Code,” thus ignoring the 
decisions of the representative meeting at Vienna. is m 
be desired that some uniformity of action should be arrived at, 
Orchidacea, retains Serapias L. for the plant which until lately 
has been generally known as Epipactis latifolia, while he substi- 
