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cation in Epigea. It is uncertain whether the small stigma forms 
“are ever fruitful or fully so.” As the style and stigma seem to 
persist this might be ascertained. Fruiting specimens should be 
sent to Dr. Gray.—5. Botanical Bulletin, John M. Coulter, Han- 
over, Ind. The numbers of this enterprising little publication come 
promptly at the beginning of each month. The editor announces 
for the second volume, beginning in November, a change of name 
to avoid confusion with that of our Butters. The Botanical 
Gazette will contain eight pages monthly at one dollar a year, and 
has the promise of assistance from well known botanists.—6, Meld 
and Forest, Vol. I, No. 1, C. R. Dodge, Editor, P. O. Box; 273, 
Washington, D, C. The July No. begins a new volume, with an. 
increased number of pages, 18. The Flora Columbiana in the 
August No. is brought down to Scrophulariacee. Robert Ridgway 
gives proof that the Catalpa is a native of the Wabash Valley, Ill. 
—T7. American Naturalist, July. Dr. Gray gives the diagnosis of 
the species of Schenolirion. The re-discovery by Dr. Wm. T. Fea 
of Savannah, of Michaux’s Phalangium croceum has led Dr. Gray 
to distinguish Torrey’s S. Michauzii into three species; S. croceum, 
Gray; S, Elliottii, Feay ; 8S. Texanum, Gray. In the August No., 
Dr. Gray has an article on Acnida, including Montelia. Botanists 
along and near the seaboard are particularly requested to examine 
the species they meet with, and to send good fruiting specimens to 
him. The distinctions between A. cannabina, L., and A. rhysso- 
carpa (rusocarpa) Mchx., should be especially looked after. The 
fruit of the former is hardly to be found in any of our larger 
herbaria. Its stigmas are very long and filiform almost plumosely 
hairy, while those of A. rhyssocarpa are comparatively short with 
utricle rugose. Florida and Western fruiting specimens of any 
Acnida are much desired. Another station for Culluna vulgaris 
has been found, five miles north of the Tewksbury one —9, Zrans- 
actions of the Mass. Hort. Soc., 1876, Part I., full of interesting 
discussions on the cultivation of plants, and the value of special 
herbaria.—10. Psyche, March—June. Contains as usual its ex- 
cellent bibliographical record, and commences a series of Synoptical 
tables for determining N. A. insects, beginning with Orthoptera.— , 
11. Zhe Naturalist’s Advertiser, July, Salem, Mass., gives notice of 
a proposed new Directory of Naturalists.—12. Connecticut Valley 
Botanical Society. The Springfield Republican of June 14th gives 
an account of the meeting at Hanover, N. H., in June. Judging 
from the subjects appointed for the next meeting, there appears to 
be a great deal of vitality in this association.—13. Mycotheca 
Universalis, by F. de Thamen, Bayreuth, Bavaria. The third 
~century of this work is now issued and contains, among other 
things of interest, a fine specimen of Cyttaria from Tasmania, and 
several species from the Cape of Good Hope, among which a new 
AKeidium, A. ornamentale, Kliehbr., is very fine, the volume also 
contains representatives of American and British fungi, and in in- 
terest is fully equal to its predecessors, J. B. H.—14. The Club is 
indebted to Dr. G. E. Post, of the Protestant College, Beirut, Syria, for 
a copy of his Botanical Manual in Arabic prepared for the use of the 
