404 Scientific Intelligence. 
return to the subject upon a future occasion. There are now 
very few peculiar Eastern North American types which are not di- 
rectly represented (not rarely by identical species) in Japan or the 
adjacent regions, and the connection of all this with the former ex- 
tension of North American types into Europe is now manifest 
rae 8 A. G 
Genera Plantarum; auct. G. Bentoam et J. D. Hooxer. 
Voli i, 1862-1867.— We have already announced the completion of 
the first volume of this important work. It may be useful now to 
take note of its pages merely as they affect North American 
Botany. 
Ranunculacee. The ambiguous Thalictrum anemonoides is 
-aeccie back to — where Linneus placed it. Its tay 4 
) 
Grnashyaate of Nuttall, though quite peculiar, is most properly 
referred to Ranunculus is Aphanostemma of Sout erica,— 
which interests us on anaes of a new Californian species, with 
white Anemone-like sepals and minute glandular pe petals. 
Dilleniacec te this order Nuttall’s Crossosoma is appended, 
as it technic ranges here rather than with : 
ycanthacece following a view propounded long ago by 
Hooker, stan xt to the following order jes 2” of 
Maapeoliiation This sidaei made to include both the Winteree 
and the Schizandree, according to views with which we are here 
familiar. As in older works, the seeds of Magnolia are said to —o 
upon a filiform funiculus —which i is — = earn the case. 
faniculus there is to these nearly sessile seeds is thick; as sey 
separate from the placenta, the copious aint ducts in their center 
are stretched out and form the extensile thread. Our Schizandra 
has its character enlarged, to take in Spherostemma, a Japanese 
species collected in our N. Pacific Expedition connecting the two. 
Berberidec, is made to include ardizabalew, which does se 
meric: 
to confirm this union. The flowers of Canto ophiylsitd were be 
described by the word ridi than “ lutei,” and the discovery of ‘the 
the pulpy arillus to the seeds of Podophyllum, attributed in the 
oe A. Gray, — sto og Torrey, and was first published 
: Flora of the Sta mbt Mew York. 
The The genus Rioeietigenis takes in Nuttall’s Me. 
, P. Oreganum and P. Californicum. Stylo- 
awkiee close approximation to to Chelido- 
and sane 
