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Index to Recent American Botanical Literature, 
Abies pungens. (Gard. Month., xxviii., pp. 112, 113; with figure.) 
Aster. plarmicodes..: 1,00 -G, « (Gard, -Chron.,:.xxv:, . p21; 
four figures.) 
Botany asa Recreation for Invalids. Miss E. F. Andrews. 
(Pop. Sci. Month., xxviii., pp. 779-781.) 
Carpenteria Californica, Torrey. (Garden, xxix., p. 312; one 
figure.) : 
This beautiful evergreen shrub has been distributed in Europe 
by M. Victor Lemoine, of Nancy, who succeeded in flowering it 
at his establishment in 1884. It is said to be one of the greatest 
acquisitions among shrubs of: the last half-dozen years. At the 
time Mr. Watson’s Botany of California was written, it was only 
known to American botanists from fruit. It was first collected 
by Gen. Fremont on the head waters of the San Joachim River. 
Catalogue of the Phenogamous and Vascular Cryptogamous 
Plants of Fitchburg, Mass., and vicinity. Published under 
the direction of E. Adams Hartwell, Fitchburg High School ; 
pamphlet, pp. 39, 1885. 
A neatly printed list of 816 species and varieties, of which 
forty-one are Pteridophyta. Certain species are recorded whose 
occurrence in the region we are disposed to question. Among 
these are Evigeron glabellum, Nutt., Brachycheta cordata, Tor- 
rey and Gray, Solidago petiolaris, Ait., Corallorhiza Macrai, 
Gray, Juncus Elliottit, Chapm., and Cyperus Haspan, L, The 
authors describe a new species of violet, V. parva, which is 
probably one of the multitudinous forms of one of the common 
species. It would have been better for the industrious editors of 
this catalogue to have consulted one of the large public herbaria 
before admitting plants whose hitherto known range probably 
excludes them from their district. 
Durability of Resinous Woods. Weinrich Mayr. (Pop. Sci. 
Month., xxviii., pp. 679 683.) 
Fungi.—Notes on some published species of. J. B. Ellis. 
(Journ. Mycol., ii., pp. 43, 44-) 
Lettuce Mildew. ( Perenospora gangliformis, De B.) J. ¢ 
Arthur. (Fourth Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Agric, E eg Sta- 
tion, pp. 253, 254; one figure.) 
