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Fungous Diseases of Small Fruits. A. B. Seymour. (From 
Vol. xiv., Minnesota Horticultural Report; 8 pages.) 
Germination of Pond Lily Seeds. George F. Waters. (Science, 
vil , 395, 396.) 
Mr. Waters states that some seeds of Mymphea odorata ger- 
minated after a submergence in water of nearly two years. 
Grasses of Coulter's Manual, F. Lamson Scribner. (Botan. 
Gazette, xi., pp. 95-97.) 
Mr. Scribner reviews and criticises the treatment of the order 
Gramince in Professor Coulter’s Manual of the Botany of the 
Rocky Mountain Region. 
Hypericacee—Revision of North American. John M. Coulter. 
(Botan. Gazette, xi., pp. 78-88, and 106-112.) 
The three genera, Ascyrum, Hypericum and Elodea, are re- 
tained, in which the author differs from Bentham and Hooker, 
who in their Genera Plantarum refer the two species of the last 
to Hypericum. Ascyrum Crux-Andree, L., var. angustifolium, 
Nutt., is referred to A, hypericoides, L.; A. microsepalum, Torr. 
and Gray, becomes Hypericum microsepalum, Gray; H. pyramid- 
atum, Ait., is H. Ascyron, L., occurring also in Europe and North- 
ern Asia; H. angulosum, Michx., is H. virgatum, Lam., and H. 
acutifolium, Ell., is reduced to a variety of this species; H. cor- 
ymbosum, Muhl., is H. maculatum, Walter; H. Scouleri, Hook., 
becomes a variety of H. formosum, HBK.; H. Sarothra, Michx., 
is H. nudicaule, Walter. Under Elodea of Jussieu (not £lodes, 
Adans.), Z. Virginica, Nutt., becomes E. campanulata, Pursh. 
Lilium Canadense. (Garden, xxix., pp. 426, 427; plate 
543.) A description of its mode of growth and propagation 
with comparisons with other lilies accompanies the very 
pretty plate. We are told that it is still imported into Eng- 
land in considerable quantities. 
Mosses. ‘The American Monthly Microscopical Journal, vii., pp. 
86-88., reprints from Science Gossip, a popular article which © 
contains nothing more than can be found in any text-book. 
It is illustrated by crude figures of Funaria hygrometrica, L. 
