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which illustrate those of his brother, and was associate-author of 

 some of them, died a year and a half earlier. Both were devoted 

 Roman Catholics, and it is understood that, in giving up botany 

 on account of broken health, they retired to a specially religious 

 and recluse life, filled with acts of charity. 



Between the years 1841 and 1865 L. R. Tulasne was a pro- 

 lific author, and his work was always excellent in matter and in 

 finish. Excepting a single essay upon embryology, the phseno 

 gamic papers and memoirs all relate to systematic botany. The 

 most considerable of them are his classical monographs of Podos- 

 tomacece and of Monimiacem. The mycologists tell us that his 

 Fungi Hypogaei and the Selecta Fungorum Carpologia are the 

 most important works of the age in that department. A. G. 



2. Drugs and Medicines of North America, a publication 

 devoted to the Historical and Scientific Discussion of the Botany, 

 Pharmacy, Chemistry and Therapeutics of the Medicinal Plants 

 of North America, their Constituents, Products, and Sophistica- 

 tions. Vol. I. Ranunculaceae. J. U. Lloyd, Commercial History 

 and Pharmacy. C. G. Lloyd, Botany and Botanical History. 

 Cincinnati, 1884-85, pp. 304, imp. 8vo. — With the ninth fascicle 

 this volume is completed, and an index, new title-page, etc., are 

 given. It appears that, besides the very numerous figures (over 

 one hundred), which are scattered through the letter-press, there 

 are twenty-five full-page illustrations, chiefly figures of the plants 

 under consideration, and very good ones too. An idea of the 

 thoroughness and extent of the work may be had by considering 

 that this whole volume is devoted to the plants of one order, the 

 Banunculacece / and " it cannot be denied that a plan so compre- 

 hensive has involved great expenses and difficulties." One reads, 

 therefore, with a gratification not unmixed with wonder, the 

 courageous announcement that: " We next take up the succeeding 

 natural orders, and hope to continue until we have completed the 

 subject." 



Having already given a notice of the earlier parts of this vol- 

 ume, now brought to completion, we have only to state that the 

 last two fascicles are devoted to Cimicifuga and to Nanthorrhiza. 

 The authors will notice that we follow their orthography of the 

 name. It is the unquestionably correct form. The only reason 

 . why it has not been altogether adopted is that the form given 

 by L'Heritier, Zanthorhiza, was supposed to have been earliest 

 in publication, and botanists are not allowed much discretion in 

 mending faulty names. But as the origination of the name is 

 genei'ally attributed to Humphrey Marshall, and as he published 

 it with the correct initial, in the same year (1785) which is borne 

 on the title-page of that fascicle of the Stirpes Novm by L'Heritier, 

 who prints it with a wrong initial letter, no rule of priority is 

 violated in the correction of a faulty orthography. This may be 

 done without charging, as the authors of this volume do (in a 

 foot-note), "that L'Heritier deliberately stole the name and ante- 

 dated its publication." They have themselves antedated it, by 



