58 The Amer, 



era. But the fact remains that Dr. Kuntze has only attempted to do, 

 a little radically perhaps, for all the flowering plants at one stroke, 

 what monographers had been doing piecemeal in every group of the 

 vegetable kingdom. No one objected to their motives, and few to their 

 alterations. Their alterations became a part of " current nomencla- 

 ture." Had the reform been conducted haphazard and piecemeal, it 

 would have seemed quite proper to many who now vigorously denounce 

 it. — Roscoe Pound. 



The Flora of Ohio.— In the " Catalogue of Ohio Plants " in Vol. 

 VII of the Geology of Ohio, Professor W. A. Kellerman and W. C. 

 Werner make an admirable contribution to our knowledge of the 

 plants of one of the older regions west of the Allegheny Mountains. 

 The catalogue is prefaced by twenty pages or so of historical matter in 

 which we learn that the earliest catalogue of Ohio plants (Miami 

 County) was prepared in 1815 by Dr. Daniel Drake ; this was followed 

 in 1818 by a paper on the Scenery, Geology, Mineralogy, Botany, etc., 

 of Belmont County, Ohio, by Caleb Atwater in the American Journal 

 of Science (Vol. I), and later, 1831, by Short and Eaton's paper 

 (Southern Ohio) and two by Riddell ,— Franklin County, in 1834, and 

 the Flora of the Western States, in 1835, to which a supplement was 

 added in 1836. Then follow lists by Sullivant (1840), Bigelow (1841), 

 Lea (1849), Clark (1852 and 1865), Lapham (1854), Klippart (1858 

 and 1860), Newberry (1859), Hussey (1872), Beardslee (1874), Wright 

 (1889), besides many short papers in periodicals. 



Following the introductory pages one comes at once to the enumer- 

 ation of plants, in which the arrangement of the families is that of 

 Engler and Prantl, but oddly enough— in reversed order. Why the 

 authors gave themselves the trouble to invert the natural sequence is 

 not stated. It is awkward, to say the least. We notice with pleasure 

 that the revised nomenclature has been used, and that all specific names 

 have been decapttalized. Double citations of authorities are given 

 when necessary, and varieties are given as trinomials. Altogether the 

 catalogue is a modern one in plan and execution. 



After the Angiosperms, there follow the Gymnosperme, Vascular 

 Cryptogams, Bryophyta, Hepaticse, Lichenes, Fungi, Alga? and Myxo- 

 mycetes. Of the last six groups the authors state that the list " must 

 be considered very fragmentary and a mere beginning," yet this is an 

 excellent beginning, of which the State of Ohio needs by no means to 



