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States, the most southern localities previously known being in. the 
Catskill Mts., N. Y. In Stony Clove, of those mountains, Mr. 
Redfield saw in 1865, and Mr. Isaac H. Hall has since seen it in 
the Kaaterskill Clove of the same mountains. Tier. Ri: 
§ 296. Publications.—1. American Journal of Science and Arts, 
Jan. and Feb. From Dr. Gray’s book notices we cull the following 
items. “ The Ve/umbium of South American proves to be WV. Juteum 
and the Japanese N. xuciferum is thought to be hardly different.” 
“Cucurbita Pepo is thought to be of Asiatic origin; perhaps 
rightly. But our Indians had it, along with Wicotiana rustica, which 
is certainly an old-world species.” The North American Fung? 
exsiccati of Messrs. Ravenel and Cooke, and of Messrs. Ellis and 
Farlow are noticed. The former may be obtained of H. W. 
Ravenel, Aiken, S. C., the latter of J. B. Ellis, Newfield, N. a: /CRNe 
Botanical necrology for 1878 is a long list: Elias Magnus Fries, of 
Upsal, aet. 84 ; Ludwig Pfeiffer of Cassel, aet. 72 ; Andrew Murray 
of Edinburgh, aet. 66; Andrew Bloxam, English, aet, 76 ; Frangois 
Vincent Raspail of Paris, aet. 87; Sulpiz Kurtz of Calcutta; 
M.. Durieu of Bordeaux, aet. 82; Charles Pickering, M.D., of 
Boston, aet. 73; Moritz Seubert of Carlsruhe, aet. 60; Thomas 
Thomson of Glasgow (and India), aet. 60; Giovanni Zanardini of 
Venice, aet. 74; Roberto de Visiani of Padua, aet. 77; Barthelemy 
Charles Du Mortier of Belgium, aet. 82; Elias Borszczow of Kiew 
(Russia); James McNab of Edinburgh, aet. 69 ; Stephen T. Olney 
of Providence, the Caricologist, aet. 66; James Watson Robbins, 
M. D., of Uxbridge, Mass., the authority on Potamogetons, aet. 77; 
James Bigelow, M. D., of Boston, “the most venerable of bota- 
nists,” and of whom Dr, Gray promises a fuller notice. We are 
promised a notice of Dr. Robbins. 2. Zhe Botanical Gazette, Jan. 
and Feb. Dr. Vasey describes a new Panicum, P. “ittorale, found 
by Mr. Charles Mohr of Mobile on the drifting sands of the Gulf 
coast. Mr. Coulter has been exploring the flora of Northern Indi- 
ana, Mr. Curtiss the Shell Islands off the coast of Florida. 3. The 
American Naturalist, Jan, and Feb. Prof. J. E. Todd writes on 
“certain contrivances for cross-fertilization in flowers,” Iris, Mar- 
tynia, Penstemon, Lobelia ; John A. Ryder, on the ultimate physical 
unit of living matter; Alfred W. Bennett, on the “ Absorption of 
water by the leaves of plants;’’ Moses N. Elrod on “Seeds of the 
Violet and other plants as projectiles.” 4. American Quarterly Mi- 
croscopical Journal, Hitchcock & Wall, 150 Nassau St., N. Y., con- 
tains several articles of interest ; The classification of the Algae, 
with plate, Rev. A. B. Harvey; Forms of Saprolegnieae, continued, 
Frank B. Hine; Classification of the simplest forms of life, B 
Eyferth. 
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