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ment of the history, affinities, anatomy, morphology, biology, distri- 
bution, paleontology, and economic significance of the Myristicacez, 
yet all this is introductory to the elaborate systematic subdivision of 
the family. Fifteen genera are recognized, of which no less than 
eleven have been proposed by Dr. Warburg himself. Of these gen- 
era, five are American, six African, and four Asiatic. Probably no 
feature of the work,-not even its full descriptions and excellent plates, 
will add more to its systematic value than the detailed citation of 
ranges and herbarium specimens. 
Like some other compendious German monographs, Dr. Warburg’s 
work is provided with several special indices, which, for convenience, 
might much better have been united into a general one. p Į, R, 
List of Mosses of New Brunswick.'— In their recently pub- 
lished catalogue of New Brunswick mosses, Messrs. Moser and Hay 
enumerate 245 numbered species and varieties, and thirteen unnum- 
bered varieties, with localities appended. About fifty stations are 
recorded which are not found in Macoun’s Catalogue. Fifteen “new 
species ” and one “new variety” (six of which are briefly character- 
ized) are included, all of which were described in 1892,” or (in three 
instances) prior to that date.* A noticeable lack of uniformity is 
_ caused by the omission of the author’s name after more than a score 
of the specific and a majority of the varietal names. Every page 
contains a few minor typographical errors in scientific names. But 
even with these defects the list will be found useful. LRG 
The Orchids of the Sikkim-Himalaya.— The most sumptuous 
publications of any botanical garden in the world, not even excepting 
that at Buitenzorg, are those which emanate from the Royal Botanic 
Garden at Calcutta. The eighth volume of the Azna/s of this gar- 
den,* consisting of four parts, put up in two thick portfolios, is 
devoted to an elaborate monograph of the orchids of the Himalayan 
range, which for completeness and elaborateness of execution is only 
to be compared with Dr. King’s Anonacee of British India, Gamble’s 
1 Compiled by John Moser and edited by G. U. Hay. Bulletin xvi, Nat. Hist. 
Soc., N. B. (pp. 23-31). St. John, N. B., 1898. (Price 50 cents.) 
*Macoun. Catalogue of Canadian See Part vi. (Musci.) 
3 Ottawa Naturalist, vol. iv, and Lesq. and James’s Manual. 
t King, G. and Pantling, R. The Orchids of the Sikkim-Himalaya, Arnals of ; 
the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, vol. viii. iv + 342 pp-» 448 — Calcutta, ; 
is = Sq. Ft. £6-6, plain; £9-9, half-colored. 
