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Anemonella thalictroides, Spach. Asa Gray. (Botan. Gazette, 
xi, p. 39.) 
Dr. Gray adopts the above name for our common Rue Ane- 
mone, which was called Thalictrum anemonoides, Michx., in his 
Manual, and Anemone thalictroides, L., by Professor Wood. The 
terminal depressed-sessile stigma is foreign to both Anemone 
and 7halictrum, and constitutes the principal distinguishing mark 
of Spach’s genus Anemonella. 
Arctic Grasses. F. Lamson Scribner. (Botan. Gazette, xi., 
pp. 25-26, one plate.) 
Professor Scribner records the discovery of Deschampsia 
brevifolia, R. Br., by Lieut. Greely near Fort Conger, Grin- 
nell Land, in 1882, and regards it as of specific rank and 
not a variety of D. cespitosa, Beauv.; it was also collected 
on Schumagin Island, Alaska, by M. W. Harrington, in 
1871-72. Phippsia algida, R. Br., a curious little species, 
hitherto not known south of Alaska, was obtained about Chicago 
Lake, Georgetown, Colo., by H. N. Patterson, during the 
past season. Agropyrum violaceum, Hornem., was collected by 
Lieut. Greely at Fort Conger, and at Upper Marias Pass, Mon- 
tana, by Wm. M. Canby, in 1883. Figures of the three 
species are given. 
Botanical Notes. Mary K. Curran. (Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci., i, 
Pp. 272-275.) 
Referring to a classification of the “riogonee as affected 
by some connecting forms, the genus Memacaulis is referred 
to Lriogonum and a new section of the latter genus, to be 
‘called Bracteolata,is proposed, to contain species whose flowers 
within the involucre are each subtended by a spatulate bract. 
E. gossypinum, n. sp., is described. A new Chorizanthe (C. 
insignis) is characterized, as well as two new varieties of pre- 
viously known species of this genus. 
Botany of California and Parts adjacent.—Studies in the. Ed- 
ward Lee Greene. (Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci., i., pp. 179-228 
and 276-282.) 
_ Three new genera, Bebbia of the Composite, containing two 
species, B. juncea (Carphephorus junceus, Benth.) and B. 
atriplicifolia (Carphephorus atriplicifolius, Gray),  Mimet- 
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