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well er should remain upon a morphological basis, wie 
mixture of other considerations. And his strength is main! 
voted to a natural arrangement of the families (orders of Tassie) 
under more comprehensive orders, cohorts and classes, ete. 
sacha he begins the series of Phanerogame, class reget 
he Monocotyledones. We should et do that now, if we 
had i begin anew, and if we keep Gymnosperme as a class, 80 
as to give the latter ‘its proper position an eel the higher Cryp- 
iy pau and the er Pan ‘ale, Oe nes. Of course, a 
first. includes amopetalous and ‘al ieeaiee orders generally; 
the t 
etc. ; the third has Begoniacez, Euphorbiaces, Urticacez, etc., as 
well as the Amentaceous orders, A class, Anthos erm y ha 
equivalent weight to Asiviosporme and Gymnosperme, is inter- 
osed between - them, and consists only of the order Spermiflore 
(Loranthaces and Viscacee). We need not present the new 
7 a of what used to be called Cryptogamia. Nees 
sh ae t the Phanerogamez, our only remark need be that such 
essays are full of interest, "perhaps s of future fitted na that — 
none of the recent schemes are in condition to replace the Jus- 
siwan and Candollian arrangements with all their imperfections. 
6. Necrologia Botanica.—The annual record which aa ‘oak 
lished in this Journal for many years has not appeared for the 
Jast three years; yet some biographical notices of deceased bot- 
hie of March, at the a age 0 of 4 is. Cuar.es C. ee 
Samusr B. Mxap of Augusta, Tllingte died spt 1, ata 
pout old age. ts the year 1881, January 4, died Professor — 
Atrnonso Woop in the 71st year of his age. In 1882, THOMAS 
Pg James, one of our few adepts in Bryology, died Feb. 22, : 
in the 79th year of his age, leaving the venerable Lesquereux t0 
sau Gh: in Manual of Mos pei 
