VOL. I. ] Recent Literature. 233°) 
Eriogonum Nealleyi, Euphorbia Vaseyi, Panicum capillariotdes, 
Muhlenbergia Lemmoni, Sporobolus Nealleyi, Sporobolus Texanus, 
Trisetum Hallii, Bouteloua breviseta, Triodia eragrostoides, T) riodia 
grandiflora, Poa Texana, Notholena Nealleyt. 
The grasses were determined by Dr. Vasey. The paper shows 
careful work, and proves that the very numerous misprints of the 
previous number are not a necessary concomitant of Government 
botanical publications. The author’s notes on Castalia; the vari- 
ability of Greggia camporum; Hosackia rigida, to which he reduces 
H. puberula, 7. Wrightii and H. Bryantz,; and on Arigeron stri- 
gosus, are of much interest. 
Torrey Botanical Club, Bult. August. Of special interest to 
botanists of the Pacific Coast are A New Fern ( Cheilanthes Brande- 
get), by D. C. Eaton, and A Descriptive List of the Genus Heu- 
chera, by William E. Wheelock, in which twenty-one species are 
enumerated. with descriptions, and a list of the specimens examined, 
a commendable feature of recent revisions. The author proposes one 
new species, A. Nova- Mexicana, and several new varieties. /7. 
maxima Greene, is kept up on the author’s specimen, although 
more recent collections from the same locality have shown that he 
failed to collect the small forms which connect it with those of the 
mainland. 
Catalogue of Flowering Plants and Ferns of Santa Cruz County. 
Compiled and Edited by ¥. L. CLARKE, for the Board of Education 
of Santa Cruz County. Although this pamphlet bears on its cover 
the name of Dr. C. L. Anderson, its contents furnish abundant 
proof that he had no hand either in its arrangement or in the proof- 
reading. The list ‘‘ embraces 628 flowering plants, 17 varieties of 
ferns (Filices), and 75 grasses.” This, which is the last sentence in 
the work, sufficiently shows its character. For the rest there is such 
an assemblage of misprints, and laborious attempts to mix botani- 
cal names with popular ones as must have a remarkably confusing 
effect upon the minds of the school children for whom it is princi- 
pally intended. For instance, the following: ‘‘ Potatoes (Solona- 
cee)—Solanum nigrum, S. umbelliferum, Datura Stramonium, Petu- 
nia parviflora.’ No localities are given for the plants, nothing but 
the bare list of names. It is claimed that this is ‘‘the first of its kind 
published in the State.’’ Let us hope that it is also the last, and 
