Botany and Zoology. 421 
revocation of the name of the 92d species, S. Nove-anglice, un- 
der which the author has combined two sub-species and sev 
varieties, no one of which is recorded as inhabiting our New Eng- 
land States, or any district nearer than Saskatchawan ig 
ains. 
. Flora Brasiliensis of Martius.—The 42d and 43d fascicles of 
this great work, were Geuels in April last. One includes the 
eee, by Dr. J. D. Hooker, with 22 pate done in perriguigise Of the 
rises sson, oo Ae 60, age important 
_— “ the close of the summer. ‘The propositions, g asasg a4 
ae a. 
4, Those features of the botany of Japan and Pua regions. 
which are of ee Lenpspen interest to us, have recently been consid- 
ered by Miquel in a pamphlet, entitl 
Sur les Afinit é la Flora du Japan avec celles de 0 Asie e 
de PAmerique du Nord, (extr. des Archives at ag am ii, 
- 1867.)—The first special notice of the now familiarly known rela- 
tionship of J open with Eastern United States botany, — pereny 
i WwW 0! earlier 
FO ee ee Te a 
ET ASSN, ieee eT 3 ee 
sis. Mr. Sater onoun voiene if monet ee had not reached 
ae country when this paper was read, although its leading idea 
as known here. oP 
bility “that what are termed closely related species may, in many 
eases, be lineal descendants { from a pate stock, 
Iti Prof, Miquel credits only a single 
Hydran; ea to North ey wl restricts Malvastrum to Eastern 
North ica, while it is wanting east of the Miss ssissippi, and 
abounds west of the Rocky agit and deprives the eastern side 
of Prosartes, So far as we know, it is a mistake to to credit Symplo- 
