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the F. scabrella described in Hooker’s Fl. Bor. Am. Mr. Herbert 
E. Copeland gives a list of some thirty-five plants of the Dells of the 
Wisconsin in Central Wisconsin. He thinks the flora of that region 
indicates a connection with the Atlantic Coast, the Southern States, 
‘and the far North-west Hudsonia tomentosa, Nutt., Froelichia 
Floridana, Moquin, and others, illustrate the former part of this 
view, but we do not notice any species particularly characteristic of 
the latter. However, as botany was only incidental to his visit, the 
list is imperfect, Mr. Martindale gives a long and generally inter- 
esting list of “ foreign” plants that have been collected mostly this 
year in the neighborhood of Philadelphia. Few of these plants seem 
_ to have been mere escapes from cultivation, but rather introduced 
accidentally, and some are getting established. The list was not 
intended to include the introduced plants mentioned in Gray’s 
Manual, but such plants as Hrodium cicutarium, Holcus mollis, 
Linaria Hlatine, ete., are pretty well naturalized, and we wonder 
that Potentilla Anserina, and Phragmites communis, and other 
plants that require very little salt, should be strange to our rival 
sister. Dr. Garber gives a good account of the Tillandsiae of 
Florida, and C. F. Wheeler has an interesting note on a tendency in 
Claytonia Virginica”to heteromorphism.—5. Check List of the 
Ferns of North America, John Robinson, Salem, Mass., Second 
Edition, with a number of additions and alterations. Prof. Eton 
has revised the old list and approves this. A handsomely printed 
list on good paper, broad margins and spaces, and printed only on 
one side, Besides this there is an edition on thin paper for mailing. 
—§. Index Seminum, ete. A list of seeds, collected in 1876, whic 
the Botanical Garden of Chicago offers for exchange. Six pages, 
quarto, of three columns, comprising native and foreign plants, List 
’ of desiderata to be sent before the first of next March. Address, 
H. H. Bascock, Director; James Bowrn, Gardener, Chicago, Illinois. 
—T. Psyche, Cambridge, Mass., September- November, continues its 
valuable Bibliographical Record of Entomological articles, and 
Synoptical Tables for determining N. A. insects.—8. Cereus grandi- 
florus and CO, Bonplandii, a medical treatise by R. E. Kunze, M.D., 
with two fine colored illustrations by Mrs. Annie F. Thomas. _ 
§ 133. White Mountain Plants.—Oakes, who made a specialty 
of these plants, died in 1848, and since then it has been difficult to_ 
get a good collection of them without a personal visit to the region, — 
and even then many would be too difficult of access for the lowlander, 
Messrs. Flint and Huntington have during the past season made 
collections of more thau fifty species, which, carefully arranged and 
ticketed, will be sent by mail upon the receipt of five dollars. The 
number of sets is limited to fifty. Address, Wiruiam F. Fit, 
Hanover, N. H. q 
§ 134. European Exchange.—Richter Lajos, No. ay Erzherzogin 
Marie Valerie Gasse, Budapest, Hungary, sends us a cireular, inviting 
subscription to a society for exchanging the plants of the neighboring 
countries, Hungary, Transylvania, Croatia, and as far as possible, 
Turkey and Russia, for foreign plants. He requires from each 
member of the association five francs, say one dollar gold, per annum, 
