Botany and Zoology. 327 
intercalated into one class; it fills 575 pages and is illustrated by 
237 wood-cuts. We had deferred notice of this admirable work 
ious, and able contribution 
to morphological botany should have. Being a eciall 
definition of the flower, its development, and its parts, precede a 
brief discussion of the arrangement of the floral organs, the rela- 
tion of the blossom as a whole and of its outer members to bract 
his former views in consequence of the later researches of others), 
log 
im systematic sequence, mark this work as one of the first impor- 
tance, G 
A. G. 
4. Repertorium Annuum Literature Periodice, car. G. Bou- 
NENSIEG et W. Burcx. Tom. iv, for 1875. Harlaem, 1878. 283 
- 8vo.—Having noticed the preceding volumes, we would renew 
the expression of admiration for the careful and thorough manner 
In which this work is planned and executed. The classification of 
topics is very detailed and special; and there is a full index of 
names of genera and orders, and another of authors. A. G. 
©. Synopsis of the Genus Aquilegia, by J. G. Baker.—A con- 
tribution to the Gardener’s Chronicle, London, concluded in the 
number for August 17, 1878; intended specially for horticultural 
use, but also of botanical consequence, arranging under artificial 
a 
from the sepals only giving the measure. A. truncata, the Cali 
fornian Species, is quite distinct from <A. formosa (which grows 
i en 
ers 
mens, there will be no need of again confusing them. 
Am. Jour. Sct.—Turp Series, Vor. XVI, No. 94.—Ocr., 1878. 
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