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a month’s Pon in Brazil, in 1879, special attention having 
apparently been paid to the Bromeliacee, more than half of 
the ales! eth Piece to that natural order. 
he greater part of the novelties discovered, and here figured 
for the first time, have been already published by Dr. Wawra in the 
‘(sterr. Botanische "Feit chrift’; so that we have in the pre- 
sent sags only seven species hitherto undescribed :—Psidium 
Itatia @, P. paraibicum, Oxymeris Itatiaie, Symplocos Itatiaia, 
bermaiera gracilis, EF. Itatiaie, Argostemma javanicum,—all, save 
the last, being from Brazil. 
lad to welcome the first number of vol. xii. of the 
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I. echin mospora—are entirely new: it is, w e thin x; to be pines 
that some of the old plates—notably the very inadequate one of 
Osmunda regalis—should not also have been superseded. The 
plant which Prof. Babington and Mr. Carruthers ares in referring 
to that species.* It is scarcely correct to say Dr. . Moo 
described his Isoetes Morei as ‘‘ a distinct sub- eae: : he called it 
a new species of Isoetes.” We are glad to note the absence of the 
so-called ‘‘ popular portion” of ‘ruse dass creaas It is to be hoped 
that the work will quickly proceed to completi 
In the 10th part of the ‘Flora of British ee Sir J. D. Hooker 
describes the Asclepiadee and Scrophularinee, the remaining orders 
—Loganiacea, Gentianacee, Polemoniacee, Hydrophyllacee, Borra- 
ginea, Convolvulacea, Solanacee—being the work of Mr. C. B. Clarke. 
In th 
lepis, cpap Pentabothra, Adelostemma, Lygism vs Pablo athe and 
Dittoceras. The inaccurate method of citation const s charac- 
tertaed the work almost throughout still continues ; ins, the five 
species of T'rigonitis are ascribed to ‘‘ Be cay n Gen. Pl. ii. 558,” 
but not one of them is there specifically nam 
We regret to see that Messrs. George ae & Sons have printed 
the misleading words “eighth edition” and the date 1883 on the 
cover of a recent issue of the ‘ London Catalog? It is merely 
the seventh edition in a new wrapper, not the smallest alteration 
eing made in the text: this is obvious from the reference, at p. 31, 
to “this seventh edition,’ ’ while the work ends with the announce- 
ment that ‘‘ inquiries may be addressed to the ea ag Hewett C. 
Watson”! The mistake has since, we understand, been rectified 
as far as possible, but copies are in circulation lettered “eighth . 
edition 
* Journ. Bot. 1882, 391, t. 233. 
