474 Scetentific Intelligence. 
mere notes and indications by his ——- and from his own 
_ studies of the rich materials which were ready to his hand. 
spraneranee Sdre any particular reference to "the contents, after 
p. 48, Mr. Baker’s name would be used. The peg edition was 
issued, in successive aes Shyam 1865 and 1868. new one 
has lon ng been wanted, and still is so, in a certain sense. For, 
although the editor has “endeavored in this edition to briefly 
characterize and fit into their places the new discoveries and the 
plants found upon fuller information to have been inadequately 
dealt with in the first,” he has not been able to deal with them 
quite freely. The pages are in stereotype, so that the body of the 
old work has been reprinted—no doubt with corrections as far as 
might be—and the additions are collected in an appendix of 75 
pages, followed by a good new index to the whole. This must 
serve for the present, and Penta will be very thankful for 
the new help. But we hope that Mr. Baker, in due time, will re- 
Semen the ict completely. 
. Grisesacn, Plante Lorentziane.—An elaborate paper, “of 
13. pages and two plates, 4to, separately issued from the 19th 
volume of Transactions of the Royal Society of Sciences of Gottin- 
gen, 1874. It describes a good collection of plants of the Argen- 
tine Republic made by Prof. Lorentz of cue It is prefaced 
by a brief account of the region, followed by some remarks upon 
the more interesting plants of the collection, under their natural 
orders. Many new species are proposed and a few new genera. 
a 
scribed; also a new “ genus, valde anomalum,” Sterrhymenia, 
which is appended to the order, — with Cardiopteris! ada 
ig $s ecb is not appare 
ical ributions seen in the Pvonietinns oy 
ne American Academy oe Arts and Science colon x, 1875.—Thi 
Plants, with a ee of the Western Species of Silene ; by 
Sereno Watson. pp. 333-350. Thespecies of Ceanothus, mainly 
Californian, had i difficult of determination. They ar which 
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