1074 The American Naturalist. [ December, 
graph? “So also the names in some cases might have been changed 
with advantage, but it was decided to follow the nomenclature of the 
6th edition of Gray’s Manual of the Botany of the Northern United 
States.” It used to be the boast of Science that her votaries had the 
courage of their convictions; let us hope that this may continue. 
As a list, however, the catalogue speaks well for the activity of the 
botanists of Maine. We note in the supplement the unlooked for 
occurrences of several far-western plants, viz., Oxytropis lamberti sericea, 
Glycyrrhiza lepidota, Artemisia biennis, Cenchrus tribuloides. 
In the ‘‘ Flora of Pasadena,’’*°—In a pamphlet of 45 pages 
Professor McClatchie has catalogued 1056 plants which he has found 
upon an area about ten miles north and south and six miles east and 
west, lying about the city of Pasadena, California. The southern edge 
of this tract is 500 feet above sea level while the northern edge rises to 
5000 or 6000 feet upon the San Gabriel Mountains ; at its western edge 
is a deep cañon traversed by a swift stream, and numerous small streams 
flow from the interior of the tracts. 
Upon this small, but varied region have re found of Protophyta 
40 species; Phycophyta, 50; Carpophyta, 350; Bryophyta, 53; 
Pteridophyta, 21; Spermaphyta, 542. The catalopas is therefore a 
list of the plants of the region, not of “ the flowering plants and vascular 
cryptogams,” as is so commonly the case in similar undertakings. 
Several things about the catalogue are especially commendable; thus, 
the place of publication of the new species (sixty-two) is given in all 
cases, a most helpful feature. This sentence, also, is significant, and 
hopeful ; “ being opposed to the naming of new species after collec- 
tors. I have attempted to prevent any being given my name, and have 
succeeded in all cases except one.” Another commendable feature is 
that the author has “attempted to follow the Rochester rules for 
nomenclature.” If we compare the two catalogues, we find that both 
show excellent work as their basis, but the western author is shown to 
have a broader conception of systematic botany, and to be less tram- 
meled by the traditions of conservatism than the eastern one.—CHARLES 
E. Bessey. 
Frank’s Diseases of Plants.‘—The first volume the new edition 
of this useful work has recently appeared from the hand of Dr. Frank, 
5 Flora of Pasadena and Vicinity, by Alfred J. McClatchie. Reprinted from 
Ried’s History of Pasadena. Los Angeles, California, 1895. 
Die Krankheiten der Pflanzen, Dr. A. B. Frank. Erster Band, Zwiete Auflage, 
Breslau, Verlag von Edward Trewendt, 1895, pp. 344. 
