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aA ve again, the so-called suborders are reduced to 
, and the family is made very comprehensive, including even 
the Ribesiee iitiiek name there is hardly good reason for adopting 
in p a of Gros — and is placed immediately after Rosacea. 
By wri the original name Sazifragee, the authors fall into the 
edie dificult of ee precisely the same name both for the 
order and the tribe. We do not make out t the ground of their ob- 
in the present instance. In the synopsis, Rodgersia has lost its d, 
and Boykinia is credited with double its actual number of stamens 
The sixth section, Jsomeria, of Sazifraga, is superfluous, and belongs 
—_ inly to Boykinia, In the second line of the character of Astilbe, 
“vel” should be supplied after “liber.” Lithophragma is, not 
aturally, referred back to Tellima, but is perhaps better as a 
stinct genus. A very interesting new genus from California, 
Boland dra, ony = published, will find a place near Tolmiea, 
Tiarella, "and Tellima, ‘Parnassia is incorporated into this tribe, 
next to aaeneion and the position of the stigmas relative to 
the placente is corrected in the adden 
Crassulacee. Here we have only to remark that Echeveria is re- 
duced to Cotyledon, 
Droseracee, on account of a slight adnation in some species, are 
brought into the neighborhood of Sazifragacee ; but in Dionea, 
—— this is oo most pronounced, while the calyx-tube is 
said to be ‘ ovarii adnatus,” the petals and stamens are de- 
crib as ee ogynous,—statements which are not quite con- 
gruow 
A. Curtis, but the single species may as well be referred to Am- 
mannia, 
Onagrariee. In the seeds of some of Jussiea, an invest- 
ment derived from the pericarp is contounded with the testa; and 
Rothrock’ very distinct genus bonus Heterogaura 
oree. ae: — assiflora are inadvertently said to 
be iene: instead of wea. Our authors refer Papayacee di- 
‘o this order. 
*Seeroel The genus ee i ng rear oe oy in Tow _ 
from Bryonia, section Trianosperma ospermum - 
re ak Cia Flora. The original, 7. Boykinii, is abundantly 
i t from Bryonia, but is not altogether congruous with the 
West Indian Cionandra of Grisebach. | really “ fifteen 
always hexam Ore ganus is certainly Senehion anaes 
we net dhapemed to follow Nandinin regarding as Echinocystis, 
