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has undergone changes for the better, and §. Romanzoviana, hitherto 
identified only on the western slopes of North America, where it was 
long ago found by Chamisso, and at the single station of Bantry Bay, 
Ireland, is found to be present in the northern part of our region. 
Liliacee now includes Melanth d Trilliacee, and the genus Nar- 
ste and the Junci have undergone a careful and critical revision 
e hands of Dr. Engelmann. Much laborious study has been given 
` the Cyperaceæœ, and we see the number of Carices raised from one 
hundred and thirty-two to one hundred and fifty-one; the Ferns have 
been contributed by Professor D. C. Eaton, of Yale College, who has 
introduced a few changes which we are glad to see, as with Pellæa 
and eagan aeeie and Phegopteris, and the species of Botry- 
chium. The unt of our species of Isoëtes has been contributed by 
Dr. sekeng an has given them much careful study, and who 
characterizes within our area seven species, while there are two more 
in the Southern, and three more in the Pacific States. 
í re glad to see the promise of a ‘‘simpler and more elementary 
work,” which will include the ‘‘Garden Botany” of the last sion 
and more, and ‘designed especially for school instruction, and fi 
those inte _ in on coe Field, Forest, and Ga fonts 
t Shall als with e 
volume, to aaa the ton ses and Liverworts, newly elaborated 
suppose, and the “ Lichens, if not all the other orders of Lower Cryp- 
togamia.” Above all we congratulate Botanists that there is a pros- 
pect of the issue, before many years, of a somewhat similar Flora of 
the whole national domain. 
The addition of six beautiful new plates (in the admirable workman- 
Ship of Mr. Isaac Sprague), of the genera of Cyperacee, is an impor- 
tant item to the beginner, and even to those more thoroughly versed 
in Botany. Every one will be pleased with the slight changes in the 
typographical execution and arrangement of the work.—H.M. 
NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
; BOTANY. 
_ Botanical Notes and Queries. A recent number of the Revue Hor- 
ticole (Aug. 16, 1867) calls in ques stion the native country of Sambu- 
cus Canadensis Linn. ., our common Elder, not only regarding it as 
a mere variety of the European S. nigra,— which it well may be, —but 
pyan if it be really indigenous to this country. The same mesas 
been raised in my own mind. Can any of the numerous 
