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base of the seed, bent at an angle of about 45° from the radicle.” 
The artist has not been very successful in depicting a triangular 
ovary and akene. 
Bloomeria aurea Kell, has its name changed to 2. crocea on 
account of the Al/ium croceum Torr. Boh. Mex. Bound 218 (1859). 
But Lloomerta aurea was published in ‘‘ The Hesperian” with a 
colored plate, December, 1859, and the month of the Boundary 
publication ought to be convincingly set forth before a name 
already well established in floriculture is disturbed. 
Ephedra viridis named from imperfect material, occurs scat- 
tered through the range of £. Nevadensis, of which it is probably 
only a form. It is very bad practice, especially on the western 
side of the continent, to give currency to species no better char- 
acterized than this and Sooo eremtica. kh. B 
The Genus Phyllospadix, by Wit1iAM RussEL DUDLEY. 
Reprinted from the Wilder Quarter-Century Book. An interest- 
ing account of the genesis and structure of Phyllospadix. The 
author is evidently of opinion that the differences between the 
two forms are so slight as hardly to warrant their continued sepa- 
ration. ‘The author has had better facilities than any previous 
student of the genus and the two excellent plates give one for 
the first time an adequate idea of the structural details of the 
plant. 
Manual of the Bay Region Botany, A Systematic Arrange- 
ment of the Higher Plants Growing Spontaneously tn the Counties 
of Marin, Sonoma, Napa, Solano, Contra Costa, Alameda, Santa 
Clara, San Mateo, and San Francisco, By EDWARD LEE GREENE- 
The title should have been A. Phanerogamic Flora of- 
counties in the State of California, omitting Typhacee, Lemnacee, 
Naiadacee, Alismacee, Juncacee Cyperacee Graminee, Conifere 
and numerous species tn the other orders; with thirty ‘‘ new 
species” none of which are new, and nearly all vaguely character- 
ized both as to character and station; and with every change of 
name which the author's present knowledge admits. The work is 
a second and much restricted edition of the unfinished ‘‘ Flora 
Franciscana,’’ which under its misleading name included the 
