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not necessarily indicate a former closer relationship between the 
north temperate floras on the two sides of the Atlantic. It is quite 
probable that re eae have been transferred on driftwood, or by 
the agency of 
art eT a begins also in 1551, and this is a 
little ‘infsle to Ibn-Sina, Theophr astus , and the unknown Egyptian 
and Assyrian botanists who described, and in some cases figured, 
plants in ate a scientific way. Of course their work is of no use 
to us, but the way in which it was lost by too esoteric a termino- 
logy po oints a very valuable moral. Then, again, many will be in- 
clined to doubt the derivation of the Farinosa from Cyperacee, as 
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BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, 
We are glad to announce that the new edition of Babington’s 
Metta! on which the Messrs. Groves have been so long occupied, 
1as been publishe Pressure on our fees compels us to defer a 
notice of it until our : next issue. 
E learn with regret that the copehehainls practice of collecting 
whicteats rare British plants, to which td have on mo ia than one 
occasion adverted, is not yet extinct. Both the Lizard and Tees- 
e have, we learn, lately been visited ah a collector of this kind. 
We trust that botanists will discountenance in every way possible 
® practice as mischievous as it is cenvarme fic. 
Tue thir 
Tlustvéttiens of the Botany of Cook’s F First Serr which Mr, Britton 
useum, including 
a full account of the Herbarium and of the MSS. and drawi ings in 
the Department of Botany. 
Tue Fifteenth Annual Report of the Missouri Botani cal Garden 
is perhaps less interesting to the botanist than some of its we 
decessors. The principal paper “f Sy ecological compariso 
some typical swamp areas,” by Mr. M. Coulter ; this is natraisa 
by twenty-four excellent plates : A Trelease’s paper of two pages 
on ‘aberrant veil remnants in some edible agarics”’ has ten plates 
devoted to it. We in this country can hal help envying the 
has at a cae 
THE Hs peek (vol. ii. part 1) of Dr. Theodore Cooke’ 8 well- 
printed oe castaity executed Flora of the Presidency of Bomba 
earries the work almost through the Boraginacee, The biblioghiphie 
