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newer system cores ot been elaborated, mainly by the efforts of 
Scandinavian botani 
n the Bam yintas ‘are are a few oo perso ; Basidiomycetes 
are placed at the end, i. ¢. after instead of before Ascomycetes, and 
the Fungi Imperfecti are more fully elaborated. 
In the higher plants the arrangement is unaltered; the group 
Cycadofilices appears as an appendix at the end of the Pteridophyta, 
while in the flowering plants there are a few alterations in the 
details of arrangement of the natural orders and their subdivisions. 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, éc. 
Tue third volume of Dr. Carlos Reiche's Flora de Chile, which 
was begun in 1895, appeared paren: the end of 1902. Unfor- 
tunately no exact date is given, an e work is rendered difficult 
for ready consultation by the fact that "ar the author’s name an 
an extended title (‘* Estudios criticos sobre la Flora de Chile’’) 
appear as headings throughout: neither order nor genus 
b 
The prese i ie contains the bao Umbellifere, Rubiacea, 
Composite, old some smaller orders 
The Naturalist for January satttains an interesting and sugges- 
tive paper by Dr. William G. Smith, of the Yorkshire College, 
Leeds, on ‘‘ Botanical Survey for Local Naturalists’ Societies.” 
a W. D. Roebuck, who has been editor of The gag vi: since 
1889, has resigned that post, and is succeeded by Messrs. T. 
Sheppard an . W. Woodhead. 
Vout. x. of the eae of the Torrey Botanical Club is devoted to 
a paper, full of interest and learning, r. Edward Sandford 
Burgess, detailing ‘the *« History of Pre- roa Botany in its Rela- 
tion to Aster.” We hope to notice it late 
Tue last part of the important eae der pega: begare 
Flora by Drs. Ascherson and Graebner contains 
Sarmoeperne: | Pendanalss, and Helobie, and the first portion of 
that to the S. 
Tue first ad ae Prof. Sargent’s Trees and Shrubs, to which w 
referred in our last volume (p. 898), has appeared. It sonkaien 
twenty-five plants, gangs new, — >. new species of 
Crataegus by the editor and four of Lonicera by Dr. 
as well as a new genus, Vitemeces (after She ms Edwin Tu) 
Mr. J. oe Greenman on no. 8 ; 
is not mentioned. ioc oleais appear Fo call aguas teal 
