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158 ARTICLES IN JOURNALS.
the naming of British plants, it may be well to call attention to the
grounds on which Buda (revived by Dumortier in 1827) is superseded
by Tissa (revived by Prof. E. L. Greene in 1888). In a
review of Dr. Serene Watson's edition of Gray's ' Manual of the
Botany of the Northern United States,' published in the ' Botanical
Gazette ' for March last. Prof. Trelease writes as follows :— " It is
to be regretted that Spoyularia of the old edition appears in this
edition as Buda and not Tissa. The priority of the latter, to be
sure, is only that of a few pages of a book, both being used in the
same work by one author ; but the birthright of Tissa is not
invalidated by this fact, and its use in a recent monograph by Dr.
Britton, prior to the appearance of the Manual, is an additional
reason for its use there as a means of avoiding an increase in the
number of synonyms." As I have already pointed out in this
Journal, := the two names occur on the same 2jai/e of Adanson's
' Famille des Plantes,' so that the " birthright " of the two is equal,
and neither can claim priority; while the objectionable " increase
in the number of synonyms " is due, not to Dr. Watson but to Dr.
Britton, who deliberately ignored Dumortier's restoration, sixty
years before, of a name having equal claims with that preferred by
himself. James Britten.
NOTICES OF BOOKS.
Articles in Journals.
Entwickelungs-
Bot. Centralblatt (No. 14). — R. Herse, ' Zur
'
geschichte der Hypogaeen.'—(Nos. 14-16). M. Willkomm, Vegetationsverhaltnisse
von Traz os Montes.'— (Nos. 15-17). E. Keller,
' Beitrage zur schweizerischen Phanerogamenflora.'—A. Allescher,
'Ueber einige aus dem siidlichen Deutschland weniger bekannte
Sphferopsideen und Melanconieen.' — C. Warnstorf, ' Sphagnum
degenerans var. immersum: . Correns, ' Zur biologischen Anatomie
der Aristolochia-BlxxiQ: . Hartig, ' Ueber Trametes radici-
penla.'
Botanical Gazette (March : issued April 12). — S. B. Parish,
'Botany of Slover Mountain.' — M. S. Bebb, 'North American
Willows.' — F. Eeuault & J. Cardot, ' New Mosses of N. America
(2 plates).— D. C. Eaton, Heuchera Williamsii, sp.n.— J. N. Rose,
' Notes on some Western Plants ' {Chorizanthe Vaseyi Parry & Rose
(1 plate), Erigeron Tweedijana & E. Parryi Canby & Rose, Pentste-
iiKiii Tweedyi Canby & Rose, spp. n.).
Bot. Zeitung (Nos. 13-15). ~ H. Solms-Lanbach, 'Die Sprossfolge
der Stangeria und der iibrigen Cycadeen.' — (No. 16). P.
Sorauer, ' Mittheilungen aus dem Gebiete der Phytopathologie.'
Bidl. Torreij Bot. Club (April). — J. Macoun, 'Contributions to
Canadian Bryology.' — N. L. Britton, Rusby's S. American Plants
(new species of Miconia and Clidemia). — B. D. Halsted, 'A New
* Journ. Bot. 1888, p. '261.