366 Recent Literature. [ZOE 
Unhappily we are promised a continuation, which, if in a similar 
style as the first part, will no doubt cause the author to become a 
great light among the natives, but which must nevertheless he con- 
sidered at a par with similar attempts one hundred and fifty years 
ago. How many of these ‘‘cacahuamilpensis” are really cave- 
species probably no one will ever beable to tel G- E. 
Description of anew sucker (Pantosteus jordani ), from the Upper 
Missouri Basin. By Barton W. Evermann. Extract from Bull, U. 
S. Fish Commission for 1892. The name is in compliment to Prof. 
Jordan of Stanford University. The material was collected in the ~ 
streams of Montana and South Dakota. The author recognizes 
four species besides the new one, and gives their synonomy and dis- 
tribution. 
Flora Peoriana, by FREDERICK BRENDEL. This paper catalogues 
the plants within a radius of ten or twelve miles. The vascular plants 
number 835 species. The paper is replete with interesting data not 
usually found in such catalogues. K. B. 
Development of the Frond of Champia parvula, Harv. from the 
Carpospore, with one double plate. By BRADLEY Moore Davis. 
Extract from Annals of Botany, No. xxiv. This interesting addition 
to our knowledge of Champia parvula is one of the first fruits of the 
Stanford University course in botany. Mr. Davis was in charge of 
“the summer course of botany at the Hopkins Seaside Laboratory 
last year, and is now following a postgraduate botanical course at 
Harvard University. We hope to welcome him again to the Pacific 
Coast next year. K. B. 
Additions to the Flora of the Cape Region of Baja California (Ext. 
from Proc. Cal. Acad. sec. 2, Vol. iii), by T.S. BRANDEGEE. In this 
paper Mr. Brandegee adds 59.species, Nos. 681-739, to the known | 
flora of the region. Notes of interest concerning some previously 
listed species are given and the following new species proposed: 
Dalea trochilina, Acacia Californica, Albizzia occidentalis, Dianthera 
incerta. ; Ke Re 
Erythea, a journal of botany, West American and general, 
edited by Willis L. Jepson, a pupil of Prof. Edward L. Greene. The 
new journal is to be a monthly of about twenty-five pages apparently. 
