8, Asplenium montanum, Willd.—Mr. Bower showed us recently a — 
specimen of this fern, gathered by Mr. H. Denslow from the preci — 
pitous rocks that form the banks of Lake Mohunk, Paltz Point, | 
Ulster Co., N.Y. Mr. Bower expects that <Aspidium fragrans, — 
Swartz, and Asplenium montanum may yet be found growing to- — 
gether in some common locality. 4 
3. New Stations.—Coronilla varia, DC., grows luxuriantly a short dis- | 
tance north of Guttenburgh Brewery and not far from the river. It q 
seems to be thoroughly established and naturalized, spreading 2 
the open spaces of the wood. I first found it in 1869. G. M. q 
Wiiser.—Limnanthemum laenmosm, Griseb., Babylon, L. I. J. 8. M @ 
4, Lace Lighen—As some of our readers wished to have the correct — 
name of this curious and beautiful plant, we applied to Prof. Tuck- 
erman, from whom we received the following statement : « This 
lichen is one of the most remarkable of the characteristic species of a 
the West Coast, where it is abundant. Its proper name is Ramalina — 
reticulata, (Noehd.,) Krimpolh, but Menzies, who discovered it, : 
called it (in herb.) R. retiformis, under which name I briefly refer- . 
red to itin Syn. Lich. N. Eng., 1848. Dr. Taylor had, howevel, — 
called it R. Menziesii in Hook. Jour. of Bot., 1847, and I published it, — 
therefore, under this name in my Lich. Amer. Sept., No. 51. . But 3 
the name Lichen reticulatus is much older than either of these. 4 
5, New Publications.—1. Report of the Botanist of the New York State a 
Museum of Natural History, Jan. 1872.—Mr. Peck must have been — 
very industrious, as he reports collecting “two hundred and ninety- — 
nine species new to the State, and eighty-seven new to science, twa 2 
of them representing two new genera’”—a statement which implies 3 
a vast amount of labor, aside from the mounting specimens and the — 
general care of the herbarium. He has, besides, received from 4 
others seventy-six additions to the flora of the State, and three % — 
them new species. The plants new to science are of course the ee 2 
er cryptogams, all of them, we believe, fungi, to which Mr. Peck an¢ — 
other botanists in the State seem to be more especially devoting : 
themselves. Among the new species we notice as of interest to the : 
Club, Puccinia Gerardii, Peck, and Acidium Allenii, Clinton. . | 
Peck gives directions for poisoning and pressing fungi, derived : 
from his experience, and also what appears to be a very useful sy- 
nopsis of the difficult genera Clavaria and Mcidium. He finds)? 
all sixty edible fungi in the State. — 
Credit is given to contributors for the plants sent, but justice 
would seem to require that the collector should he named as We" — 
when his name accompanies the label. The keen eye of Dr. Allen : 
detected Wolfia while he was riding on a stage coach among ee : 
Catskills; Mr. Denslow bequeathed specimens of Galactia mollis 20° 
Commelyna Virginica to the State Herbarium ; and Messrs. Bower : 
and Ruger discovered Frangula on Long Island, as has been 7 
ported in the Bulletin. - 
2. Clarence King’s Report of the Botany of the 40th Parallel bas 
been noticed by Dr. Gray in thé American Journal for Jan., and We 
are promised a fuller review of this important contribution ° 
