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fastidious. Perhaps we should have added Gaillardia amblyodon 
to the list, if we had not placed by the side of it Sprague’s figure 
in the Chloris Bor -Am., which belongs to some of this artist’s 
early work. We could wish that Meadow Beauty (Rhexia Vir- 
ginica) had a better opportunity to display her charms. We learn 
be dir i 
that the work will ectly continued in a second series, in 
which we hope that the success of the enterprise will stimulate 
— further improvement in the drawings A. G. 
0. Observations on Several Forms of "pauih oleyniee; by FRANK 
B. INE, B.S.—This is a thesis, submitted for the degree of 
BS., at Cornell University, and "the pamphlet is an article ex- 
tracted fr he American Quarterly Microscopic Journal, vol. i. 
It is illustrated by pasion excellent plates, dra y the author 
from 1e figures and the letter press (20 pages) give a 
very favorable ‘ene aac of the author’s ability, judgment, and 
taste. The two latter qualities are shown in his forbearance to 
give new specific names to forms of which the sexual reproduction 
is not made out, notwithstanding their apparent difference from 
described species; and he refrains from proposing a new genus in 
another case upon a new point of structure which he observed, but 
which may not require or justify this distinction. An indisposi- 
tion to introduce new n ames which may be needless, and therefore 
er ee is a hopeful sign. . G 
lar Ca aiornia ge or Manual of Botan ao Sor 
Beginn we Votney Ratr x, Teacher of Natural Sciences in 
the Girls? “High aor "Ban Wareaes (S. Francisco: Bancroft & 
Co. 1879).—The schools o alifornia have long been needing an 
ne iors this by which they may study the flowers whieli abound 
them, and which in spring make gay the whole face of the 
coutry. This book, of 103 pages, in the form bi “ How yikes 
petalee, and a second part will cpt ah work. Itis very well 
Monterey, and west to ~~ foot-hills of the Sierra Nevada. e 
Sh ep and Composite are omitted because “too difficult for 
beginn In cond edition these might be added, and rend- 
ered alidut as ene as the rest, with askillful popular veagacssattn, 
for which we could give the worthy author some 
12. hera, eine neue ptenin graner ae aloes aus dem 
Mittelmeer ; by Dr. fos Scumitz.—The ea paper, taken from 
he 
