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sativum. Willd. Coriander is cultivated in England, and the seeds, 

 which are aromatic, are used for seasoning and in some forms of 

 confectionery. Its occurrence here may be traced perhaps to its use, 

 by the English operatives in our cotton mills. Centaiirea vochinetisis, 

 Bernh.. a pretty composite flower, was found in both of the neighbor- 

 ing towns of Dartmouth and Westport. Hypochaeris radicata, L. 

 mentioned in an early number of Rhodora as found at Wood's Hole 

 grows in great abundance in and about one of our public parks. Jt 

 resembles greatly the Eall Vt-xMaXxow, Leontodou autumnnlis, '^nA is 

 already a troublesome weed and difficult to eradicate. Another rare 

 weed found for tlie first time in this locality is Camelma microcarpa, 

 Andrz. I am indebted to Mr. M. L. Eernald for his valuable assist- 

 ance in determining these vmcommon plants. — E. Williams Hervey, 

 New Bedford, Massachusetts. 



NOTES ON FUBLICA'J'ION KECEN TLY RECEI VEI) . 



En his popular work on the ferns ' of the Northeastern States Dr. 

 C. E. Waters has told with great clearness and in excellent literary 

 style practically all that most amateurs will wish to know about the 

 Eilices and ( )phioglossaceae of our Hora. The book is profusely illus- 

 trated by tine half-tone reproductions of very cleverly taken and well 

 selected photographs, exhibiting all phases and features of fern life 

 from massed individuals in the natural habitat to microscopic details 

 of the sporangia. 



Mr. Alfred Rchder has recently pul)lished an admirable synopsis 

 of the genus I.onicera. This paper, which forms the piece de resist- 

 ance in the 14th Report of the Missouri Botanical Garden, is the 

 outcome of a patient and exceedingly detailed examination of a large 

 geiuis, the difficullies of which are from the chiefly Asiatic distribution 

 of the species little realized by most American botanists. Mr. Rehder 

 enumerates 154 good species, together with a great number of varie- 

 ties, forms, hyl^rids. and doubtful species. Synonymy, bibliography, 

 and copious citation of herbarium specimens are added in great detail. 



' Ferns, a Maiuial for the Northeastern States, with analytical keys based on 

 ■tlie stalks and on the fructifications, by C. E. Waters, Ph. D. of Johns Hopkins 

 University. New York. Henry IFolt iS: Co., 4to. 362 pp. 



