30 Recent Literature. [ ZOE 
A Review of the American Species of Sturgeons ( Acipenserida. ) 
By P. H. Kirscu and Morton W. Forpick, Proc. Acad. Nat. 
Sci, Phila., 1889, pp. 245-257. 
Description of a New Species of Bathymaster (B. jordani) From 
Puget Sound and Alaska. By CuHarLes H. GinBert. Dated 
August 27, 1889. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 1888, p. 554. 
Notes from the San Diego Biological Laboratory. Part I, The 
Fishes of Cortez Banks, issued November 9,1889. Part Ji, Ad- 
ditions to the Fauna of Cortez Banks , additions to the Fauna of San 
Diego; Fishes of tna Springs, Napa County, Cal.; Fishes of 
Allen Springs, Lake County. Cal; The Young Stages of Some 
Selachians, issued December 1g, 1889, by C. H. and R. S. EIGen- 
MANN. Reprinted from West Am. Scientist. 
Notes from the San Diego Biological Laboratory, 111. Additions 
to the Fauna of San Diego. Issued March 24, 1890. Ibid. Ex- 
tract Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 2, Vol III, pp. I-24. 
In these papers are included fifty species which are new to the 
vicinity of San Diego, being about 33 per cent. of the entire fauna. 
Of this number nineteen are here described as new. 
BOTANY. . 
Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States. Sixth ed., 
revised and extended westward to the Zooth meridian. By SERENO 
Watson and Joun M. Courter. The present edition of Dr. 
Gray’s familiar manual includes, besides the phanerogams, all the 
vascular cryptograms with the exception of the mosses, which would 
make the volume inconveniently large. Very few names are changed, 
a matter of congratulation in the present unsettled state of botani- 
cal nomenclature. It will be quite time enough to make these 
changes in text-books and manuals when some deree of permanency 
shall have been reached. a. 82 
In a paper by Dr. F. Niedenzu in Engler’s Jarhrbuch, 1889, enti- 
tled ‘ Uber den Anatomischen Bau der Laublatter der Arbutoidee 
und Vaccinioidez,” Arctostaphylos alpina is raised to generic rank 
under the name Arctons alpina (1.. Gray)—Arctous being the sec- 
tional name applied to it by Dr. Gray. Drude, in the Ericacece of 
Natural. Pflanzenf. adopts his view and writes the name A. alpina 
- Niedz. Dr. Parry, in Bull. Cal. Acad. ii. 489 (1887), referred this 
plant ‘‘to an older genus Mairania, Neck., viz.: 1, alpina Desv.”’ 
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