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The flora of Connecticut is very interesting and varied. We sus- 

 pect that, unless Mr. Bishop is already well advanced with his work. 

 he has hardly allowed time enough for its completion. Some years 

 since we found a number of interesting plants at Canaan, Litchfield 

 Co.: we recall Mo^?eses uniflora, Gray, and Betula pumila, L , and 

 there are several hme loving ferns, especially Asplenium ebenoides R 

 R. Scott, found, we see, by Mr. J. S. Adams. 



The California Horticulturist, San Francisco, generally contains 

 some matters of interest to the technical botanist. In the February 

 number, for example, is a charming account of a trip to Lassen's 

 Peak, by Mrs^ R. M. Austin, distinguished for her researches into the 

 tlora ot that State. We quote one sentence, redolent of a botanical 

 paradise : There are acres of Mr. J. G. Lemmon's new Corydalis 

 Laseana, Gray, growmg along the streams which flow into the valley 

 from the west, fillmg the air with its delicate fragrance " 



The American Monthly Microscopical Journal, Romyn Hitch- 

 cock, 53, Maiden Lane, N. Y., one dollar per annum, pp. 20, is in 

 tact, a continuation of the Quarterly, whose supposed demise was so 

 unexpected and so much regretted, but which proves to have been 

 but a stage of metamorphosis. Among the articles of special inter- 

 est to botanists are Dr. Wolle's notes on "Fresh- Water Algae." 



The Alphabetical Index 0/ all known Ferns—s. reprint of the index 

 to the second edition of Hooker and Baker's Synopsis— is printed sepa- 

 rately by Robert Hardwicke, 192, Picadilly, W. London, 1874, and is 

 convenient for exchanges and other purposes. 



The Academy Feb. 7, contains what seems to us an instructive 

 notice of Huxley s "Crayfish," by H. N. Mosely, in which, however, 

 we find the following statement : " A most interesting fact is that the 

 genus Astacus IS represented by several species in British Columbia 

 Oregon and California, while on the other side of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains all the crayfish belong to a different genus— Cambarus Now 

 the genus Astacus occurs in Japan, though not in South-Eastern Asia' 

 Persia, Hindostan, Arabia, Syria or Africa. The connexion between 

 the faunas of Japan and the Pacific coast of North America thus estab- 

 lished is most mterestmgly borne out in the close relations which bot- 

 anists have recognized between the floras of these two regions " This 

 must be Botanical News, at least to the compatriots of Dr Asa Grav 



T ^\r- f"^'*^ations received.-i. Vick's Floral Guide, 1880 



James Vick, Rochester.-^. Aculeate Hymenoptera of North-western 

 i'T^'T"^- ^^^^"^"^ Arrangement of the Bees allied to Melissodes 

 and Anthophora^— 4. The American Bembecidae ; Tribe Stizini All 

 three by W. H. Patton, and extracted from the Bulletin of the Geo- 

 logical and Geographical Survey under F. V. Hayden, Washington 

 Nov. 3^ 1879.-5. Science Advocate, Vol. I, No. i. Henry a' 

 Green Editor Issued quarterly by the Natural Science Society of 

 Ateo, N. J.— 6. The Naturalist's Quarterly, Vol I, No i Tan fsSn 

 Naturalist's Bureau Salem Mass., [apparently to take t'he place in 

 Salem vacated by Cassino].-?. A condensed List of a few of the 

 most desirable Microscopes of moderate cost. R & T Beck I on 

 don and Philadelphia.-S. Arnold Puetz's Catalogue of Rustic'Work" 

 Plants, etc. Jacksonville, Fla.-g. Luther Burbank's Price List of 

 Trees, Plants, Seeds, etc., Santa Rosa, Cal. 



