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of Fungi. By Chas. H. Peck [Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of 
Natural Sciences. |—4. Catalogue of the Phenogamous and Vaseu- 
lar Cryptogamous Plants of Canada and the Northeastern Portion 
of the United States, including Virginia and Kentucky on the South, 
and Missouri, lowa and Minnesota on the West. By Allen H. Curtiss, 
Liberty, Bedford Co., Va. Price: one copy, 20 cents; three copies, 
50 cents ; seven copies, one dollar. This catalogue, covering terri- 
tory not included in any other, will be found most convenient for 
purposes of exchange. It is comprised in eight large pages. As it 
Is meant for transmission, dy letter, the species are not numbered, 
but, by an ingenious and readily intelligible device, the distribu- 
tion and Manuals containing the descriptions are concisely given. 
For our own purpose we prefer this form of catalogue as less 
troublesome and more significant.—5. In the American Journal, 
for August, Dr, Gray hasa notice of Mrs. Hooker’s Translation of 
Maout and Decaisne, of which work he says: “ It is the desideratum, 
the general work... .. since Lindley’s Vegetable Kingdom ran 
out of print.” If we are correctly informed the original can be im- 
ported tor much less than the translation.—6. Zhe Popular Sctence 
Monthly contains an excellent Memoir of Dr. Torrey with a portrait. 
e do not like the latter as well as that which appeared in the 
American Agriculturist for April. 
§ 48. Monstrous Teucrium.—While examining a specimen of 
Teucrium Canadense, gathered a few days ago at Coney Island, I 
was much surprised at finding, instead of the usual four ovules of 
the Labiate, ¢en ovules, arranged about a somewhat conspicuous 
central placenta. The specimen had become somewhat withered, and 
the flowers dried up; the calyx, however, was not in any respect 
out of the way. On examining another flower, my surprise was 
greatly increased at finding a calyx with eight teeth, four acute and 
four obtusa, and containing two placente, one of them surrounded 
y six ovules, the other by five/ At once it became clear to me that 
the previous one, with its ten ovules, must doubtless be an im- 
perfect attempt at a doubling like the second one, So far as I could 
Judge from the somewhat withered flowers, there was no indication 
m them of this anomalous structure of the ovary. They were 
Situated at the base of the spike; the rest of the flowers and calyces 
presented nothing uncommon, and the rest of the ovaries, so far as 
examined, had the usual fourfold division. 
_ I should be glad to know if such monstrosities have been noted 
in this species by any other correspondents. To me, their occur- _ 
Yence was very novel. : 
New pee August 28th. DS. M. 
_ § 49. Botanists of the Pacific Coast——Upon looking over my 
maugural address in print I deeply regret to find that in enumera- 
ting (see p. 34) those who have added to the store of materials that 
tow makes a fairly complete flora of North America possible—I 
have omitted to name the botanists of the Pacific Coast. As you 
_ May have judged from the manuscript, my remarks were drawn up — 
In the most hurried manner, and I would like to place upon record 
_ What I should have done in a more caretul enumeration, my high | 
_ appreciation of the labors of Bolander, Kellogg, Xantus, Bloomer, 
