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as did, also, Tuckerman for the Lichenes, and M. A. Curtis and 
Berkeley for the Fungi. The two groups last named were revised 
by Willey (Lichenes), and Peck and Ellis (Fungi). 
e arrangement of the Phanerogams follows that of Bentham 
and Hooker, but that of the Cryptogams is in confusion, and is 
decidedly antiquated, particularly so in the Fungi. However, the 
list is a very useful one, and a credit to author. 
Watson’s CONTRIBUTIONS To NORTH AMERICAN Botany, 
A V.—In this contribution the new cruciferous genus Lesquerella 
is described. It includes American species hitherto referred to 
CANADIAN Priants.—Part IV. of the Catalogue of Canadian 
Plants, by John Macoun, completes the list of flowering plants. 
The list includes 2,955 species. Two more parts are still to appear ; 
art V. to be devoted to the ferns and their allies, and the mosses 
and liverworts; and Part VI. to lichens, fungi and alge. 
ENGELMANN’s BoranicaL Works.'—When Dr. George Engel- 
mann died, in 1884, his botanical writings were scattered through 
the pages of so many publications as to make much of his work 
inaccessible to the ordinary student. This has been remedied by 
Henry Shaw, the well-known philanthropist of St. Louis, through 
Whose liberality the scattered writings have been brought together 
* The Botanical Works of the late George Engelmann. Collected fo 
brid . Edited by William Trelease and Asa Gray. Cam- 
ge, Mass. : John Wilson & Son, University Press, 1887. 4to. 
