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tamount to publication.” So of names and original observations attached 
: = in herba - These names are always attached antecedently 
to publication; and a monographer, having, as ‘he should, free access to 
all herbaria within his ak might work a deal of harm if he did not 
regard such names as to him "all the same as if already published. The 
full recognition of an obligation to do this has sensibly quickened the 
advance of botany, by securing the early distribution of materials which 
pee cea have been long withheld, and by widely opening herbaria 
all competent working botanists, and especially to monographers, who 
should o the last to deprecate the system. No doubt, like other good and 
of the Prodromus. And he, of all others, would be most surprised to 
learn that Leptocaulis echinatus, &c., Trepoca rpus Athuse, and Eulo- 
that, finally, a Fouminal Congress, suc ver which, last spring, 
the ‘distinguished editor of the Prodromus so si presided, wou 
have been a pr ody to consult upon subjects of such een and 
4. Mémoire sur la — des Pipéracées, par M. Castmir DaCax- 
DOLLE. 4'° pa — pp. 32, and with 7 plates. (Extr. from Mém. Soe 
. American Heather.—The question, whether Calluna is or is not 
indigenous to the New World,—which during several years past has been 
repeated yr - to in this Journal, as additional sig came to our no- 
tice,—has no en a new turn, Dr. Seemann, in his rnal of Bota’ 
side a = Pe Earopen Hea ther. The diagnosi attempted, 
Dr. Seemann adm be as yet far from satisfactory, sais as to & 
lencsl: dstinntion, obiertah Dr. Moore, viz., “that whilst the New- 
foundland one always suffered Seal frost, and turned brown anne the 
