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West American Scientist, vol. vi, September. New Coccids from 
California, by D. W. Coquillett, ( Dactylopius ephedre, Pseudococcus 
yucce, Blastothrix yucce). Outline of the Geology of Vancouver 
Island by M. Lopatecki. Californian Turtles, by C. R. Orcutt. 
A list of State and Local Floras of the United States and British 
America, by N. L. Britron. Ann. N. Y. Acad., v, 237-300, 1889. 
This paper is a reprint with some additions of the various lists 
which have appeared from time to time since 1881 in the Bulletin 
of the Torrey Club. The author says in the prefacing note: ‘‘No 
attempt has been made to incorporate all the notes and short lists 
of local observations, but it has been found difficult to draw the 
line in many cases. As in the former contribution, lists of species 
without exact localities have been indicated by (A); those giving 
stations by (B); those giving stations with notes or occasional de-. 
scriptions by (C); and descriptive floras by (D).”’ 
This lucid explanation is calculated to make it perfectly plain 
why such a paper as No. 565—Flora of Southwestern Colorado— 
twenty-two pages, with many notes and the descriptions of nearly 
a dozen new species, should be marked (B), and such others as 
No. 631—Botany of San Miguel, or 651—A List of Plants Col- 
lected by Mr. J. Albert Rudkin on a trip to Mt. St. Elias in the 
summer of 1883—with few notes and no descriptions at all, should 
be marked t) 
The geography of the author is to say the least peculiar. The 
Yellowstone National Park, the Big Horn Mountains, etc., are evi- 
dently on their travels, and Wyoming would do well to apply for a _ 
writ of replevin. The islands off the coast of California are also 
most of them transferred from the counties in which we are accus- 
tomed to find them, ~ 
The confusion in the author’s mind concerning the distribution of 
western plants is evidently so great that unless the locality is es- 
pecially given ina title, one may expect to find it in the wrong list. 
Thus King’s Report, which dealing with the plants of Utah and 
Nevada, one would expect to find in the “ Great Basin Region,” 
is under “ Catalogues of Transcontinental Expeditions,” and nearly 
all the Surveys for the Pacific Railroad, certainly equally “‘trans- 
continental,’ are in the California list. ee ee 
The author may have overlooked or considered of trivial 
