No. 4 is before us, and seems to promise for the work a long and useful life. Botany has especial attention. There is an extended note on Aquilegia chrysantha, the yellow aquile-gia, showing that Grant Allen's pleasant speculations about colored flowers being evolutions from a yellow type, are not according to facts in many Ranunculaceous plants. The other useful notes are on the flowering of Asarum canadense; on the probability of the English Pansy being a true native of this country - or rather, a form named by I Michaux, Viola tenella; on a new station for the rare Clematis verticillaris; on the existence of two distinct forms of the American crab, Pyrus cor-onaria, with brief notes on Vitis cordifolia, Poten-tilla paradoxa, Erythronium Americanum, and Sisymbrium thalianum.

Botany must be rapidly growing, as a popular study, when so many periodicals give attention to botanical notes.