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and ornamental species are described. Sedges and grasses 

 are entirely omitted. The work is a valuable addition to 

 our botanical literature. 



The American Entomologist, a monthly periodical published 

 in St. Louis, has been changed in title to The American 

 Entomologist and Botanist, a department in botany having 

 been added under the editorship of Dr. G-eorge Vasey. 

 The articles on botanical subjects have been instructive, 

 interesting and practical, and well illustrated by numerous 

 engravings. The suspension of this valuable periodical for 

 the term of one year will be regretted by both entomolo- 

 gists and botanists. 



At the beginning of the year the publication of The 

 Monthly Bulletin was commenced by the Botanical Club of 

 New York City. It is a little paper of four octavo pages, 

 with W. H. Leggett as editor. The primary object of its 

 publication seems to have been to make a revised cata- 

 logue of the plants found growing within thirty miles of 

 New York City, but many interesting observations are re- 

 corded in it, making the paper very readable. 



Possibly it may not be strictly within the province of 

 your committee to make any note of publications on the 

 other continent, yet they can scarcely forbear mentioning 

 two or three interesting works by English authors. 



The tenth volume of Sowerby's English Botany has been 

 finished. The eleventh volume, which is to contain de- 

 scriptions and figures of the grasses, will complete this 

 magnificent work. In it will be a life-size figure of every 

 species of flowering plant found in England. As an evi- 

 dence of the general interest taken in botanical studies in 

 that country, overflowing as it is with works on this sub- 

 ject, we would mention the fact that the celebrated bota- 

 nist, Dr. Hooker, has within the year past given to the 

 world another text book entitled, The Student's Flora of the 

 British Islands. 



