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Reviews. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm 
August,  1897. 
Saturday,  August  28th. 
Third  General  Session  (Final  Business)  
Boat  Ride  (    *«  Session)  
Lectures  by  President  Northrup  and  Prof.  F.  J.  Wulling,  of 
,  10.00  A.M. 
.   4. co  P.M. 
the  University  of  Minnesota 
8.00  P.M 
Tuesday,  August  31st. 
Trip  by  cars  and  carriages  through  the  Twin  Cities  (Minneapolis  and  St. 
The  arrangements  about  transportation  have  not  yet  been  completed.  It  is 
understood,  however,  that  a  one-fare  rate  has  been  secured  from  Chicago  and 
St.  Louis.  Members  desiring  to  start  from  either  of  those  cities  should  address 
Mr.  A.  E.  Ebert,  of  Chicago,  or  Prof.  H.  M.  Whelpley,  of  St.  Louis.  Professor 
Caspari,  of  Baltimore,  is  arranging  for  a  lake  trip  of  three  days  from  Buffalo  to 
Duluth  ;  those  desiring  to  go  by  water  should  address  him. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
An  Illustrated  Flora  of  the  Northern  United  States,  Canada  and 
the  British  Possessions,  from  Newfoundland  to  the  Parallel  of  the  Southern 
Boundary  of  Virginia,  and  from  the  Atlantic  Ocean  Westward  to  the  One 
Hundred  and  Second  Meridian.  By  Nathaniel  Lord  Britton,  Ph.D.,  and  Hon. 
Addison  Brown.  In  three  volumes.  Vol.  II.  Portulacaceae  to  Menyanthacese, 
Portulaca  to  Buckbean.    New  York.    Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  1897. 
The  first  volume  of  this  illustrated  flora  was  reviewed  in  the  American 
Journal  of  Pharmacy,  November,  1896,  p.  630,  the  second  volume  contain- 
ing the  work  in  the  sequence  of  the  Naturliche  Pflanzenfamilien,  by  Bngler 
and  Prantl,  to  the  buckbean  family,  has  now  been  issued.  The  publishers  are 
to  be  congratulated  upon  the  prompt  publication  of  a  work  requiring  so  much 
original  labor  of  authors,  artist,  engraver  and  printer.  This  volume  contains 
647  pages,  and  the  binding,  typography,  illustrations,  descriptions,  biblio- 
graphical references  and  the  other  excellent  features  of  the  preceding  volume 
have  been  fully  maintained. 
The  second  volume  contains  figures  of  1,467  species.  In  most  instances 
these  are  good  representations,  but  in  a  few  we  are  disappointed.  The  magni- 
tude of  the  author's  undertaking  is  such  that  the  students  of  our  flora  will 
willingly  overlook  these  minor  defects. 
As  was  to  have  been  expected,  the  adherence  to  the  Rochester  rules  of 
nomenclature  has  presented  us  with  a  number  of  new  binomials  for  our  old 
friends,  as,  for  example,  our  common  apple  becomes  Malus  malus  (L. ),  Britton 
and  American  Wistaria  (the  erroneous  spelling  Wisterea  is  persisted  in ) ,  be- 
comes Kraunhia  frutescens  (L.)  Greene.  The  rigid  enforcement  of  the  law  of 
priority  is  illustrated  on  page  358,  where  Polygala  viridescens  L.  replaces  the 
familiar  P.  sanguinea  L.,  both  having  been  used  by  Linnaeus,  on  page  705, 
Paul). 
Evening,  Banquet. 
