FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES 57 
ag beside Dr. Britton’s Manual of the Flora of the Northern States. 
r. Small has very wisely followed the Northern ov in its 
eoge features ; ~ sequence of orders is in the main that of 
ngl d Pranil, the nomenclature appears to co that - 
w iat Kuntze alin ‘**the inexecutable Rochester resolution 
In each te the entire cigars of even the briefest bibliographical 
references is, we think, a som what serious defect, accentua 
h ame 
indicated ; the adding of this would have given no  eabis to the 
author, and would have greatly increased facility of reference. In 
eden details—e. y. in the omission of all “English” names save 
those in aoe use, and the inclusion of all names in one index— 
Dr. Small’s book has improved upon its predecessor ; on the other 
hand, we Pai the information as po the extent and distribution of 
the genera and the origin of their names. The work is enriched 
by the Tontebetists of spaniels the plan adopted in the Kew 
floras of placing the name of the author and of the A an at the 
age 
o fewer than forty- six new genera, mostly scernieea, are 
oftabliahed the number of ‘“‘species’’—a term here taken to 
include new names—occupies nearly sixteen pages of small print ; 
the indication of the “type” of each novelty is a useful feature, 
though it suggests that the species are for the most part established 
on single specimens, as only one is cited for each novelty. This 
especially in the genus Crataegus, which occupies in North American 
botany the position which Brambles and Hawkweeds fill among 
ourselves. For the last few hg species have been peste in 
various journals, aiaindy by Prof. Sargent, whose supply is appar- 
ently inexhaustible; the last pik (iii.) of his Trees and Shrubs 
contains six new species. In the Flora before us, Mr. C. D. Beadle 
bases his “ bee of the genus”’ * only on the material at the 
Biltmore Herbarium, supplemented by brief notes taken at several 
of the leading herhasis .’ This material yields 185 species, divided 
into 33 sections: of this number 142 owe their literary existence to 
Mr. Beadle’s ingenuity; most of them, we fancy, are here first 
published, but here we are face to face with a difficulty, for not one 
of them mite in the *‘ List of Genera and Species published in 
the Flora 
American aed omplete, our attention. is arrested by th mer 
tion of Svida for a which authors lly are content to 
leave under Cornus, where they were originally placed. Svjda—for 
in 1852 by Opiz (Seznam, p. 94), who referred to it two species 
O. sanguinea and O. alba, retaining Cornus for C. mas sL. It is 
