492 Scientific Intelligence, 
a rain-storm from the south, in March, when no pines north of 
Louisiana were in bloom and which must have come from the 
Sone of our sara 
Methodik der Speciesbeschreibung, und Rubus: ‘Monsyratie 
der emfachblittrigen und krautigen Brombeeren, ee 
on nTzE. Leipzig, Felix, 1879. 160 pp. 4 0, with 
a & lebseraphic plat e and seven statistic- phytouraphteal table / 
—A most elaborate discussion, first of the diversity of value and 
indefiniteness of botanical species, followed by a plan for’ a better 
ogeeirhoag toe of botanical relationship ; next an application a 
“speciesbeschreibung” to the simple-leaved Audi, The au 
cata out with the proposition—in one sense true—that Daten on 
one hand and Jordan on the other have shattered to the founda- 
tion the rpricten conception of species; but that this conception 
still fetters systematic botany; that the plan of describing only 
typical forms, or what we choose to consider such, is a deliberate 
negation of existing facts; and that to follow the rules of arrang- 
ing related forms under the successive stages of species, subspe- 
cies, varieties, subvarieties, etc., has become incompatible with 
a strict and faithful following of nature. He ipicioe Le ee 
rather than pees them. Of course the idea of apo : 
value of such a treatment as he has etter en af a part of t 
