Botany and Zoology. 497 
Ill. Borany AND Zoonoey. 
1. The Wild Flowers of — illustrated by Isaac Spracus. 
Text by Grorce L. Goopats, M. D., Assistant Professor of Vege- 
sey Fhysilogy and Lassitees in Botany in Harvard University 
Houghto Seg emer of 
so closely as to adopt the genus rep Sp might have been 
mentioned that the cogent reason for t e rehabilitation of ‘Rafin- 
esque’s genus was not the sterile = Saeed ich were known 
from the first and suggested the name, but a involution of the 
petals in the bud around the fi pei ee enwrapping 
each, which was a new discovery. In the letter-press accom- 
panying the very pretty plate of Viola saps (which is well 
set off with a tuft of sedge behind it), the method of the discharge 
of the seeds is clearly explained, and the _ gpa mode in 
amamelis is incidentally alluded to as = it were a recent dis- 
covery of the persons mentioned. Far rlier dates are referred 
to in this Journal for Feb., 1873, with a aeruace to the amusing 
muddle of the subject into which an English — periodinal 
was led. Eastern flowers have served hitherto; but in the present 
fasciculus the ultra-Mississippian Rudbeckia cemnnaal columna- 
ris i Sibec nd to great advantage, especially the two-colored 
vari The velvety red-brown bases of the drooping dane 
rende 
a me before the Botanical Society of France (printed in 
ite Bulletin, xxiii, agg in which he described the production 
of fruit and seeds in Jmpatiens ee apparently without 
rticipation a the male. sex, and when two learned botanists 
since lost. A. G 
Am, Jour, Sc1.—Tutrp oe Vou. XIV, No. 84.—Derc., 1877. 
