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from San Diego (which is probably mature Parryz), scarcely differs 
at all; and C. pluriseta* Greene, which was described from old seeds 
picked out of crevices in the ground, may belong to either. The 
“secondary awnlets’’ described, are probably the slender, usually 
unequal tips of the cleft paleze, which in Lzzd/ey7 are often of con- 
siderable length. Mr. Greene, in a subsequent note,t describes the 
leaves—which in this group are of comparatively trivial moment— 
but fails to confirm the previous description of the pappus; and the 
writer, who spent some weeks subsequently upon Santa Cruz Island 
and sought carefully for the species, could only find “nearifolia and 
Lindley. 
nina ne 
[ For “Gobius Nicholsoni” page 66, second line from top, substi- 
tute ‘‘Gobius Nicholst.”’ On page 93, 23d line from top, for “ gen- 
uine” read “generic.” ] 
ene anenal 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
The Nautilus, iii, No. 11. A New Species of Tylodina, by W. 
H. Dall. A New American Budimulus, by H.A. Pillsbry. Onsome 
Northern Pupidz (describing six new species), by V. Sterki. On the 
Generic Position of Arion foliolatus, by T. D. A. Cockerell, proposing 
for it a new generic name, Phenacrion. A Few Last Words on 
Crepidula, by John Ford. 
West American Scientist, vii, No. 1. C. C. Parry (with portrait), 
by C. L. Orcutt. Fauna and Flora of Colorado, by T. D. A. 
Cockerell. A New Locality for Helix Ayresiana, by Lorenzo G. 
Yates. Palmerella, by Edward Palmer. A Handsome Astragalus, 
by C. C. Parry, suggesting a possible variety (coccineus ) of A. Purshit. 
Torrey Bot. Club. Memoirs, i, No.4. On Seedless Fruits, by E. 
Lewis Sturtevant, concluding the volume of 186 pages. This is a 
semi-popular compilation of interesting, but not at all unknown facts 
relating to the occurrence of seedless varieties in cultivated plants — 
such a paper, in fact, as we are accustomed to see in agricultural 
reports. z 
Garden and Forest, No. 118.— Of interest to American botanists 
are Notes on North American jin’ xvii, by C. S. Scola Notes 
-*Pitt, ee ee at 
+Bull. Cal. Acad., ii, 405. 
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