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Early  Journal  Content  on  JSTOR,  Free  to  Anyone  in  the  World   This  article  is  one  of  nearly  500,000  scholarly  works  digitized  and  made  freely  available  to  everyone  in   the  world  by  JSTOR.     Known  as  the  Early  Journal  Content,  this  set  of  works  include  research  articles,  news,  letters,  and  other   writings  published  in  more  than  200  of  the  oldest  leading  academic  journals.  The  works  date  from  the   mid-­‐seventeenth  to  the  early  twentieth  centuries.      We  encourage  people  to  read  and  share  the  Early  Journal  Content  openly  and  to  tell  others  that  this   resource  exists.    People  may  post  this  content  online  or  redistribute  in  any  way  for  non-­‐commercial   purposes.   Read  more  about  Early  Journal  Content  at  http://about.jstor.org/participate-­‐jstor/individuals/early-­‐ journal-­‐content.                     JSTOR  is  a  digital  library  of  academic  journals,  books,  and  primary  source  objects.  JSTOR  helps  people   discover,  use,  and  build  upon  a  wide  range  of  content  through  a  powerful  research  and  teaching   platform,  and  preserves  this  content  for  future  generations.  JSTOR  is  part  of  ITHAKA,  a  not-­‐for-­‐profit   organization  that  also  includes  Ithaka  S+R  and  Portico.  For  more  information  about  JSTOR,  please   contact  support@jstor.org.   OPEN LETTERS. Flora of St. Croix. I HAVE, quite by chance, just come across The flora of the island of St. Croixr, published by C. F. Millspaugh in the Feld Columbian Museum Bot. Series, Vol. I, no. 7, which was issued at the end of last year. In Mr. Mills- paugh's work no notice whatever is taken of the species published by Mr. Paulsen and the writer in a floristic appendix to our work "Om Vegetationen paa de dansk-vestindiske Oer;" though Mr. Millspaugh in his introduction gives a complete translation of the lines from Urban's "Bibliographia" dealing with our work: " In a floristic appendix six phanerogams new to the Danish islands and Rostrup's fungi and lichens are listed." We are thus led to believe that the author has not taken the trouble to read our paper.' Nor has he apparently made himself acquainted with the additions to Urban's "Bibliographia," which occur in later numbers of the Symbolae Anti/lanae. The result is that none of the species of phanero- gams, fungi, and lichens published by us have been included. The author also gives a short list of algae, containing, according to his typography, spe- cies new to the island. But hardly any of them are really new, as almost all of them, and several others, are mentioned in my short paper, "A contribu- tion to the knowledge of the marine algal vegetation of the coasts of the Danish West-Indian islands." I have, moreover, distributed some St. Croix algae in Wittrock and Nordstedt's exsiccatae, and in Phycotheca Amer.-bor. It is of course of great interest to have the new finds in St. Croix pub. wished, but this could have been done as an appendix to the flora of the islands. But when Mr. Millspaugh sets out to give a complete list, we are justified in expecting that everything published regarding the flora of the islands will be included.- F. BORGESEN. IT is distinctly stated on page 459 of the publication referred to that it only includes the work of the Rickseckers, checked by the only published general list of the island flora, viz., Eggers's. It was not the intention to include scattered lists. All of Urban's publications which were available up to the date of sending in copy were made use of.- C. F. MILLSPAUGH. Bot. Tidskrift, i898, and Revue G6n. Bot., i900. I58 [AUGUST