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taken from a photograph accompanies Mr. Meehan’s description. 
One of the large branches, comprising about one-half of the tree, 
was blown off in a gale of wind, September 14, 1882, so that the 
elm has now lost its grandeur and beauty. 
Conspectus Hepaticarum Subordinum, Tribuum et Subtribuum. R. 
Spruce. (Trans. & Proc. Bot. Soc., Edinburgh, xv., pp. 
309-588. Plates V-XXIL.) 
This is the second part of the Memoir on the Hepaticz of the 
Amazonand of the Andes of Peru and Ecuador, and contains the 
Jungermaniee of sub-order I., and sub-orders II., III., and IV., 
Marchantiacee, Ricciacee, and Anthocerotacee, including 46 
genera, comprising full descriptions of every species, with their 
characters, habits, and distribution in equatorial America. The 
author states that he has been prevented by illness from complet- 
ing the Introduction which he had intended to issue with this 
part, hence he hopes to be able to present it as a Supplement to 
the work, including additional matter on the hepatic vegetation 
and the bearing thereon of the principal features of the region 
explored, with some critical remarks on certain of the genera and 
species. 
Curtis, Rev. Moses Ashley.—A Sketch of the Botanical Work of. 
Thomas F. Wood. (Journ. Elisha Mitchell Scientific Soc., 
1884-’85, pp. 9-31.) 
Cuscuta.—Notes on. E. J. Wilkson (Trans. San Francisco Mic. 
Soc., Dec. oth, 1885.) 
Dandelion A Study of the. E. Lewis Sturtevant. (Am. Nat., 
xx., (1886), pp. 5-9. 
A valuable contribytion to the literature of this plant, giving 
the common names in eleven languages, citing authorities dating 
back to 1539 and 1583 for descriptions of varieties, and tracing 
the history of its use and cultivation as a salad in England, France 
and the United States. From observations conducted at the New 
York Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva the author 
describes a dozen different form-species, figures 6 leaf-forms, and 
inclines to the conclusion that they are of natural origin. “Before, 
however, such a radical belief can receive countenance, much 
_ must be done in the herbarium study of varieties collected from 
