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Jamaica Ferns of Sloane's Herbarium. G. S. Jenman. (Jour. 
Botany, xxiv., pp. 33-43, concluded.) 
An enumeration of the plants contained in this old collec- 
tion, with interesting notes on many of them. A new species, 
Hymenophyllum Houstoniti, is here first described. 
Linneus—The Life and Labors of. A. P. Morgan. (Botan. 
Gazette, xi., pp. 26-32. 
Nelumbium luteum. R. Irwin Lynch. (The Garden, xxix., 
P- 3-) 
It is remarked that the seeds of this plant will germinate in a 
few days if the testa is cut through. 
Ranunculacee.—A new genus of. Edward Lee Greene. (Bull. 
Calif. Acad. Sci., i., pp. 337-338. 
It is proposed to refer Ranunculus hystriculus, Gray, to the 
genus Kumlienta, dedicated to Prof. T. L. Kumlien, on ac- 
count of its terete seed and thin, bladdery pericarp, the latter 
character being foreign to all other Ranuncu/t. Mr. Greene re- 
marks that his new genus is nearest 77 vautvetteria, the fruit- 
structure of which is similar. 
Salvinia natans. (Botan. Gazette, xi., p. 48-) 
Specimens of this plant, whose occurrence in the United States 
has hitherto been doubtful, have recently been collected by Mr. 
C. H. Demetrio in a bayou of Bois Brulé Creek, Perry Co., Mis- 
souri, but whether native or of accidental introduction, is yet 
uncertain. : 
Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetale, being a 
second edition of Vol. t., Part it., and Vol. it., Part i., col- 
lected. Supplements and Indexes. Asa Gray. Published 
by the Smithsonian Institution, January, 1886. 
The two published parts, each with a supplement, are now 
issued in a single volume. Both have been corrected, as far as 
could well be done on the electrotype plates. The supplement 
to: Vol. i Part +; (Rubiacee— Composit@) is of eleven pages; 
that of Vol. ii., Part i. (Ericacee—Plantaginace@) is seventy 
pages long. A tabular enumeration of all the gamopetalous 
genera and species is appended. The indexes of each part have 
been made anew. In the supplement to Vol. i., Part ie fe 448, 
Dimeresia, a new genus of Composite, is described, consisting of 
