tt a *  BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 851 
attained its final stage. The revision has so far progressed that the 
first instalment has been put in the hands of the printers, and in 
due course a prospectus will be issued for the information of sub- 
scribers. The work is receiving the invaluable attention of Sir 
Joseph Hooker, who, besides carefully annotating the manuscript, 
has undertaken the care of the geographical distribution. Although 
the printing will be proceeded with the utmost practicable speed, 
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arrangement is assured, the Delegates of the Oxford Clarendon 
Press having ig ee the duties of publishing the Index Kewensis 
Nominum Omni mE tonten um Phanerogamarum (1735-1885). 
Dr. Sereno Warson’s last neces oes to American Botany, 
issued July ast, plea op ea of new North American a 
Mexican species, with a revision of the tierisa species of E 
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the Island of Ascension, in which three new species—Rubus nanus, 
Asplenium Ascensionis, and Nephrodium? viscidum—are described. 
E have receive ed the Smithsonian ee for ree pie 
address on Botanical Biology delivered by Dr. Dyer at the British 
Association in 1888. 
Ichthyomethia is the euphonious substituke for Piscidia which, as 
Mr. A. 8. Hitchcock points out in Garden and Forest for Oct. 7th, 
must, on the ground of priority, be adopted. This is undoubtedly 
e case, however much we may regret it; for the longer name was 
published by Patrick Browne in his Natural History of Jamaica 
(p. 296) in 1756, while Piscidia of Linneus dates from 1759. 
rand-new syn 
which has ing just three weeks. The plant, Prof. Sargent points 
out, must now be called Ichthyomethia Piscipula Hitchcock, and to 
this we do noi demur, as Mr. Hitchcock has a right to choose his 
own "tg name. 
Dr. Brrrron is proceeding apace on his campaign of restoration 
and festeualion. In the sel pen number of the Torrey Bulletin 
he makes the following chan 
Neckeria Seop. (1777) a Corydalis Vent. (1803). 
Bikukulla Aaa: (1763) ,, Diclytra Backh. (1797). 
Coronopus Hall. (1768)  ,, Senebiera DC. (1799). 
Pombalia Vandelli (1771) ,, Ionidiwm Vent. (1803). 
Kraunhia Raf. (1808) » Wisteria Nutt. (1818). . 
Cruminium Desv. (1826) ,, Centrosema Benth. (1840). 
Vleckia Raf, (1808) » Lophanthus Benth, (1829). 
