82 Scientific Intellagence. 
fifth sont of the Természetrajzi Fiusetek, edited by the National 
Hun n Museum. In this treatise, Dr. Brendel discourses 
from hie ‘fall knowledge of the topography, climate and vege- 
tation of Ilinois, and in particular of the relations of the latter 
to the former ; and he ends with a Catalogue of the Flora 
around Peoria, his residence; adding to each species an abbre- 
viated indication of its geographical range, also specifying sar 
which on either hand approach the limits of his district. So tha 
eo is Seo an important contribution to the pytlogy 
he United Sta 
pat Manvipeat of the Genus Lilium ; by Henry oat “Ee 
s, F.LS., F.ZS. Hlustrated me W. H. Fitch, F.L.S. 1880. 
finds it possi sible. He re epeat 8 me ates descriptions 
with only occasional and generally very slight alterations, but 
wisely differs from him, not only in his limitation of species, but 
in their grouping. e recognizes but two main phages ‘Car- 
diocrinum and Hulirion—the first including only the two very 
peculiar Asiatic species, Z. giganteum and ee co era teliee: The 
other proposed sections, Martagon, Isolirion, etc., he considers 
too artificial to be kept 
merican cL he retains and illustrates the eastern L. 
Alsat ele petit a Catesbei, L. Canadense, L. superbum and 
L. Carolinianum. Of the more recently propo abe L. Grayi, of © 
the Sonciers Alleghanies, he had seen no specimen before the 
ree of his work, Of ao Coast Soutdes, ee abet are 
en of L. Waskinajeinianivn and var. purpureum, L. Parryi, L. 
Humbotitit, L. pardalinum with te se, Se dom DL. parvum, 
L. maritimum and L. Columbianum. The v urpureum of 
the first species is obviously more sta a vidios 3 and it is only 
through mistake that Z. rubescens, of the Botany of California, a 
quite different species of the Coast Ranges, has been suppose ed to 
have any connection with it. The forms of Z. pardalinum are 
left somewhat in confusion, inasmuch as the plate which repre- 
