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opinion. Suftice it to remark that the three classical suborders 
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botany through the old herbalists, adopted by Tournefort and 
Linneus. It is made to include not only Zheyopsis and Biota, 
but even Chamecyparis (Retinospora, ete.), which the arboricul- 
turists will hardly like. must wonder it was not extended 
to Libocedrus also, at least to the species of the northern hemi- 
sphere. 
Taxod: 
also gratifying that Seguoia goes into the same tribe, on the 
Sequoia. It should not be surprising that a type so early devel- 
oped and widely diffused of old should have representatives in 
the southern hemisphere. 
In the Abdietinece, the received genera are Pinus in the restricted 
sense, Cedrus, Picea (for the Firs, i. e. m Firs), Zsuga 
(Hemlock Spruces and 7% Williamsonii), Pseudotsuga (the 
Douglas Spruce), Abies (the true Spruces), Larix, the Larches. 
To the latter, rather than to Cedrus, Pseudolarix is appended, 
awaiting a knowledge of its male flowers. 
Many and profound are the thanks due from all systematic 
botanists to the authors of this Genera Plantarum. A. G. 
. 1e Popular Names of British Plants, being 
» planation of the Ori and Meaning of ndigenous and 
ost commonly cultivated Species. * 
, ult., in the 83d year of his age. He came from Lon- 
don to the United States, in the spring of 1830, accompanied by 
three young and motherless children and by his brother, Samuel 
Am. Jour, chip: em: Vor. XIX, No. 118,—May, 1880. 
