88 REPORT ON BOTANICAL GARDENS AT SAHARANPUR AND MUSSOORIE. 
satisfactory if namers of new cultural varieties would turn their — i 
attention to this matter H. N. Riptey. 
Report on the Progress of the Botanical Gardens at Saharanpur and 
ssoorie for the year ending 81st March, 1885. J. F 
oti: Superintendent]. Allahabad, 1885, fol. pp. 51. 
Tuts Report contains, besides information connected with the — 
Saharanpur Gardens, an interesting account of an excursion under- — 
taken by Mr. Duthie o North-eastern eo rE in 1884. He | 
looked :— Primula Reidii, n. sp —Leaves ovate, lanceolate, clothed i 
with silky pubescence ; pat erect, Brash 2. to 4 inches long; flowers 
= in umbels, larg , drooping; calyx broad, snowy white 
capsule globose.” (Saharanpur Report, 1885, p. 80). The Appendix : 
of «New species and others not previously recorded for Kumann’ = 
(PP- Sa os ere also the following :—Delphinium densijlorum, — 
Biep. 69; ria ferruginea, 0. 8p., Sawifraga Stolitzka, TL. 8P+y_ 
Sedum eae: n ae S. filicaule, n.sp., Tricholepis hypoleuca, D. SP +) 
Lactuca filicata, Nh. §p., Polygonum parvulum , D. sp., Scirpus dissitus 
ke, MS., Kobresia Duthiei OC. B. Clarke, MS. Of th 
48 respectively. On a saxifrage is styled “‘ S. lycopodioides, 
followe remark ‘ Probably aegis Aitch 
Helmsley” Eaomaley; ; and on p. 37 Mr. ie writes, “I pr 
a distinct s cacian from A. Oz zycedri ; and adds in a eee: 
“previously named by Sir Joseph Hooker A. minutissim 
course such nomina nuda are entitled to no recognition ; ager it is 
much to be regretted that, in the last two cases especially, they 
should be allowed to appear in print. 
In ‘Studies of Plant-life in —— (Ottawa, Woodburn), the — 
author, Mrs, C. P. Traill, gives us a handsome book, the Preface to 
which contains an anteresn secs of her difficulties in becoming 
Wi with the native flowers of Ontario. ‘At the age of © 
eighty-three years” Mrs. Traill completes her work ; and although 
we may feel that her hope that — volume may r rank with White's 
two books have more in common han might be supposed. There 
is the same strong personal interest and affection runnin g through 
) j simple record of careful chemraticn kanes 
