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gentlemen, whereat they need not, however, feel undue elation, 
having in this land of republican simplicity to share the honor with 
a large number of fellow-citizens, including ‘‘ astrologers,” “ ton- 
sorial artists,’’ etc. The tabulated list is chiefly remarkable for the 
number of errors contained. Many of the species occur under two 
different names, and no notice has been taken of reductions even 
when made by the authors of the species. The errors in the spell- 
ing of names are much beyond the average of official publications— 
the short list of lichens being almost a model in this respect. - We 
doubt whether even so eminent an authority as Dr. Farlow, who is 
credited with their identification, would know what was meant by 
“ Rawalina howalea,’” if taken out of its connection. 
Botanical Gazette April. Flowers and Insects iv, by Charles 
Robertson. Mycologic Observations i, by A. P. Morgan. Gland- 
ular Pubescence in Aster patens, by A. A. Hitchcock. Revision of 
North American Cornacez, by John M. Coulter and Walter H. 
Evans, concluded from February number. The authors describe as 
new Cornus Baileyiand C. Greenti, founded principally on difference 
in pubescence and seed characters, which have, perhaps, been too 
much relied upon, as the authors themselves hint in a parenthesis, 
to the description of C. pubescens. Six species of Garrya are rec- 
ognized, G. Lindheimeri being, we think, very properly reduced to 
a variety of the Mexican G. ovata, and G. flavescens to var. flaves- 
cens of G. Veatchii Kell. This last species, as well as G. buxifolia, 
will probably be found to be too closely related to G. Fremontit. 
Torrey Botanical Club, Bull., April. Contributions to Canadian 
Bryology 2, by John Macoun, the following mosses described as 
new by Dr. Kindberg: Andrea Macounii, Gymnostomum platy- 
phyllum, Dicranum angustifolium, D. Canadense, D. sulcatum, and 
D. subulifolium. Enumeration of the plants collected by Dr. H. H. 
Rusby in South America 1885-1886,—xii, by Dr. N. L. Britton, 
with the following new species by A. Cogniaux: Miconia elongata, 
M. Brittonii, M. polygama, M. Rusbyana, M. flavescens, Clidemia 
Boliviensis. A New Entyloma (£. Ellisii on Spinach), by Byron 
Halsted. The New Edition of Gray’s Manual, by Sereno Watson. 
A New Moss of the Genus Bruchia (2. longicollis), with pl. ci, by 
D. C. Eaton. Notes on some of the Plants found in Muskoka © 
Lake, K. B. Claypole. © 
