^ 5 ^ BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 



Napoli della Soo. bot. ital 1891.'-J. Mueller, - Lichenes Yatabeani 

 in Japonia lecti. -- A. De Bonis, < Le piante del Polesine.' - B. 

 boinmier, 'Eisultati botamci di un Viaggio all' Ob inferiore.' 



T JaTT B n ZeiUc ! iri J l i*»M— 0. Baenitz, ' Cerastlum arcticum 



Eas ™-s n - n ^r^ Fnt scl . N latorische Bemer , 



Wettstem, 'Die Arten der Gattung Gentiana' 



lcungen.' — E. v. 



{ lZ^, : h I ^ yn ' Plantfe n0Vfe Orientals' (contd. : Phaopappm 

 Frevn^w' ^'» v V^" fata Freyn A Sint., C. psephelhides 

 ill?? w ' ^f mmt Fre y n ' & "Wrocephala Freyn & Sint., 

 f/«-Ato7tew. (gen. nov. «,w»a Freyn & Suit., spp. nn ) 



BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, dc. 



Thk Bououcal Gazette for June contains a short paper "On 

 Nomenclature" by the late Dr. Sereno Watson, dictated by him in 

 his last illness, and published at his request. His adhesion to tie 



wlKL° ( ^r 11 ^ thG S UMl name ^rtkcjenus, no mat i 



wi, .n ? ,1 P6Clfac ™T\ the ^ e ma ? be '" was wel1 ^wn, and it 

 SnoX y T» re00g ? ,S , ed 1 that Dl *- Asa Gray favoured th * s *>^ 



sen en! • . t "^ b(We?er ' » ^worthy for the fallowing 

 sentence— "I must express surprise that Dr. Britton has nor 

 considered it his duty to publish the last written wo -ds of Di Gray 

 Which were addressed to him upon this subject, and which ex^esed 

 his positive opinions upon this point." When, in tl e exeicise of 



SteTnote "of T^' 2 ™k *° m P^Hc^a Lb^u ntly 



sav tint thi r ' ? ntt ° n ° n thlS Sub J" ect ' he did * ot triple to 



say tnat tln 3 was because we were "apparently afnid nf tlm 



Britton^ £?*" T^^ ^ ^ l - wTwTth^ W D 

 britton s statement of the reasons which have induced him to 



suppress the last utterances of America's greatest systematise 



ftn 7" E , Aw Bulletin to* May and June has at length been issued 

 and contains, as usual, not only "miscellaneous information ''but 



be ra ^nK^° tan ^ , , PaPerS -r Mr - MaSSGe ^^\nrfs 

 me vanilla Disease (Calospora Vanilla) Mr N t? -r, i 



some useful "Notes on the Plants TpSuciug Pa ra ^„av tI^'Tu 

 "£± he t re ™?f »-*i work, and%nnmerate? t fe sLefes em 



P ojed : two of these /to „„,,„.„ Bonpland and /. a™ZS« C 



J *#nm rienisl., Uerodendnm ctmyense Baker, 



