« 
te 
1 Die 
yeep i. Die Insekten, Von Dr. VITUS GRABER. München, 1877, 12 mo. pp. | 
F S 2 403, 2 I; ji = 
1878. | Recent Literature. 689 
Onosmodium molle is made a variety of O. Carolinianum. 
pages cies cs is referred to L. i ic Nita 
Myosotis palustris, var. laxa, becomes M. laxa, 
Gnoglossum J AN is transferred to SPE eatin as £. 
Virginicum, 
m. 
SUPE R tenellum, Torr., is to be added as found in Ken- 
y- 
Ellisia ambigua is reduced to a form of Æ. Nyctelea 
Phlox ovata, Linn., is restored for the broad- leaved form of P. 
Carolina, while var. nitida is referred to P. glaberrima, var. suffru- 
ticosa, Gray. P. amena, Sims, is substituted for P. procumbens 
(not Lehm.), and P. Stellaria, Gray, is adde 
Diapensia and Pyxidanthera are united with Galax and the 
southern genus Shortia to form the order Diapensiacee. 
Calystegia is returned . CONVENER, where our species were 
originally placed by Linnæ 
The species referred in the “Manual to Bonamia are transferred 
(following Benth. & Hook.) to Breweria, R. Br., as distinguished 
rom Bonamia, Thouars, by the plicate corolla. It is perhaps 
through oversight that the species are not credited to Benth. & 
ook., who Ai to the Manual for the three known North 
American speci 
The perennial Fiore of Physalis are referred to P. Virginica, Mill., 
instead of to P. viscosa, Linn., and to P. lanceolata, Michx., i 
place of P. Pennsyloanica, inn. 
Gentiana detonsa becomes G. serrata, Gunner, and var. “nears 
of G. Saponaria is kept distinct as G. linearis, Fries. The recent 
discovery of G. amarella, var. acuta, in Vermont should be noted. 
Forsteronia difformis is transferred, with some doubt, to Zrache- 
lospermum, Lemaire, a genus of Eastern Asia. 
cerates paniculata is prede to Asclepiodora, a genus proposed 
by Dr. Gray for all the later species of Anantherix, Nutt., which is 
rinte to the single species upon which it was founded. 
Ligustrum vulgare i is inadvertently omitted. 
Americana is separated from Olea, Tourn., by Benth. and 
Hook., and carried to the Chinese genus Osmanthus, Lour.— 
Sereno Watson 
GRABER’S eae 1_The author of this work is Professor of — 
Zodlogy, at the University of Czernowitz, Austria, and is well a =f 
most favorably known by his beautiful and elaborate histologi 
researches on the organs of hearing in insects, and other points 
in their minute anatomy, especially of the digestive canal of or- 
thoptera, &c. The popular work on insects is a comprehensive 
and original treatise on their anatomy, general and minute, | 
physiology and biology. The illustrations are new and es 
Naturkréfte. Eine naturwissenschaftliche Volksbibliothek, xxi, xxii, Band, 
> 
