go feecent Literature. , | ZOE 
with the genus strengthens my impression that the characters here 
admitted as of specific value are worthy of credence, and do not 
apply to mere forms or varieties, although the less differentiated 
species fall into groups, which some of the most conservative bota- 
nists might justly treat as species consisting of fairly marked sub- 
species, in a monograph of the genus as a whole.’’ The new 
species are &, delicatum, E. clavatum, and E. ursinum Parish in 
herb. The recently described species reduced are E. pseudo-lineare 
Hausskn. “unknown to me, and suspected by Professor Hauss- 
knect to be a hybrid of uncertain parentage ;’’ £. Americanum 
Hausskn. reduced to £. adenocaulon; E. exaltatum Drew. reduced 
to a variety of adenocaulon; and £. Oreganum Greene, considered _ 
a hybrid of glaberrimum, with perhaps adenocaulon. The plates are 
of much value in the future study of the genus. x. B. 
American Garden, xli, 247, makes an amusing contribution to 
the literature of Rhamnus Purshiana. It is described over the 
name of a contributor as “A very low, pretty shrub with bright 
scarlet berries, handsome light green, deciduous leaves and cinna- 
mon-colored stems. The tiny greenish-white flowers have four or 
five petals and stamens,’ The accompanying figure represents 
Prosartes Hookert. = 
Botanical Gazette, F ebruary, 1891. Notes on the apical growth 
of Osmunda and Botrychium (with pl. v.): Douglas H. Campbell. 
Two new plants (Zuina Piperi, Silene Suksdorfii), from the Cas- 
cade Mountains (with pl. vi.)\—B. L. Robinson. New species of 
Montana fungi (with pl. vii.)—J. B. Ellis and F. W. Anderson. 
Key to the North Amerian Genera of Labiate.—Alfred C. Stokes. 
Observations on the new Texas fern, Notholena Nealleyi and var. 
Mexicana—George E. Davenport. Sarcodes Sanguinea—Thomas 
Meehan. : . ree 
March, 1891. Black rust of cotton—George F. Atkinson. Flow- 
ers and insects, vi—Charles Robertson. Notes on Technique, ii— 
scribed species (4. Pringlei, A. &lobosa) of Apodanthes (with pl. 
iv)—B. L. Robinson. Erythrea Pringleana Wittr.—C. G. Pringle. 
New species of Montana fungi (with pl. x)—Ellis & Anderson. 
April, 1891. New or noteworthy Composite from Guatemala— 
John M. Coulter. Notes on North American Willows, vi (A review 
