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total absence of Pi matter here is conspicuous. Moreover, while 
°o 
ny rarely of equal or greater economical importance. The gait 
may be said of the fr uits. If as re spects the botanical part 
have not the complete superstructure, we have a good foundation 
2. Macoun’s Catalogue of Canadian Plants; Part IT. Gaur: 
petale. Issued by the Geological and Natural ao Survey of 
Canada, A. R.C. Siew, ees" , F.R.S, ete., Director, Montreal; 
Dawson Brothers, | 1884, , 193-394, oe Pook essor John 
sense of the whole British Dominion in North America, and even 
Alaska is included, scientific prevailing over political considera- 
tions. Geogi rephicad ranges and stations are given with fullness 
and critical particularity. A little donigéé delay in the printing of 
e Composite would have secured more uniformity in the 
nomenclature with that of the Synoptical Flora of North America. 
Jong stretch to bring in Arnica Sa chalinensis, Sachalin 
bles belie Sadeed very far ‘“* off the coast of Alaska.” Perhaps 
the present _ r may be somewhat to blame for this, by not 
Stating where the Sachalin or Saghalin, or pi alin, is situated 
when he sharseeneaes a species. Profes acoun may be 
quite right in the opinion that Andromeda apie has been 
credited to Canada only eres the unreliability o shag hand the 
misconception of later botanists. _ as Carey and Washburn 
have collected it in Vermont s Oakes saa that Rob- 
bins found it as far north as Gate. Maine, it may well have. 
reached the Canada lin 
In respect to the extnaol of this name, Canada, which has 
80 long had a definite meaning restricted to the two haeeaa 
Upper and Lower, it seems to us as wrong as it is confusing to 
extend it across the continent nee include in it British Columbia 
Better make a new — if one is wanted, for the British arr 
sions in North Am 
3. Histoire des geal et des Savants depuis deux Sica, 
précédée et suivie d’ autres études sur les sujets ea Lat 
sega sur [ Heredité et la Selection dans 0 Espéce sot - 
ar ALPHONSE DE CanDOLLE, Associé étranger de ikea des 
ciences de Paris, etc., ete.—This is a second edition, much en- 
arged and in some particulars changed from the first, which was 
published twelve years ago. It bears the date of 1885, but was 
issued toward the close of the preceding year. It discusses so 
many topics, and some of them with such particularity that a re- 
view, or even a full notice of the contents, of this stout octavo of 
