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anthe, of the Scrophularine, consisting of M. pilosa (Mimulus 
pilosus, Watson) and Clevelandia, also of the Scrophularine, 
with a single species, C. Beldingii (Orthocarpus Beldingi, 
Greene), are proposed. Fifty-six new species are then described, 
with critical notes on many others, some of which are referred 
to genera other than those where they have hitherto been placed. 
Under the heading, “ Notes on Guadalupe Island,” Mr. Greene 
gives a general account of its flora, and a list of species hitherto 
found on the island, there being fifteen additions to Mr. Watson’s 
list published in the Proceedings of the American Academy in 
1876. ; 
The second part of Mr. Greene’s contribution gives a Revision 
of the genus Myosurus, which has already been criticized by Dr. 
Gray in the January number of this BULLETIN.  Slepharizo- 
nia is a new genus in which are included B. plumosa (Hemizonia 
plumosa, Gray,) and B. laxa (Hemizonia plumosa, var. sub- 
plumosa, Gray.) Four new species are here characterized. 
Cimicifuga racemosa, Ell. (Drugs and Medicines of N. A., i, 
pp. 273-288, concluded.) 
The medical history and physiological action of the drug are 
given in this number. 
Clintonia Andrewsiana, Torrey. (The Garden, xxix., p. 109.) 
This Californian plant flowered in the Edinburgh Rock Gar- 
den during 1885, and information is desired by a correspondent 
of the above with regard to its cultivation. We believe it has 
never been figured. 
Eastern Virginia.—Notes on the Flora of. Lester F. Ward. 
(Botan. Gazette, xi., pp. 32-38.) 
Flora of the Peruvian Andes, with remarks on the History and 
Origin of the Andean Flora.—Contributions to the. John 
Ball, F. R. S. (Journ. Linn. Soc., xxii., pp. 1-64. 
Professor Ball devotes twenty-seven pages of this communi- 
cation to general considerations regarding the Flora of the region. 
Composite are specially abundant, 50 of the 214 species col- 
lected in the upper valley of the Rimac River belonging to that 
order, In the enumeration of the plants collected, twenty-five 
_ new species and varieties are characterized, among them the only 
Sedum (S Andinum) hitherto found in South America, 
