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A catalogue of plants hitherto found in the Yellowstone Park, 
with their distribution and habitat, and localities of those less 
commonly met with. The work is mainly the result of Mr. 
Tweedy’s explorations of the region in 1884 and 1885, when he 
obtained 605 species. Additional information has been derived 
from published accounts of collections made by Robert Adams, 
Professor Coulter, Dr. Parry and Dr. W. H. Forwood. The 
topographic features of the Park, its forests, the alpine flora, the 
flora of bogs, ponds and streams, the plants found about the Hot 
Springs and Geysers, and the grasses are discussed, and much in- 
teresting information is presented. In all, 657 species are enum- 
erated. The area of the Park is about 3,350 square miles. 
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Gentiana Bigeloviiz. Gray. (Curtis’ Botanical Magazine, xlii., 
tab. 6,874.) 
Beautiful figures of this plant are given with quotations from 
Dr. Gray’s description in the Synoptical Flora. The plants from 
which the drawings were made grew from seeds sent by Dr. 
Parry, and flowered in August in the rock-garden, being per- 
fectly hardy. 
Harvard's Botanic Garden and its Botanists. "Ernest Ingersoll, 
(The Century Magazine, xxxii., pp. 237-248.) 
An interesting account of this famous garden and of Dr. 
Gray’s Herbarium. The garden was founded in 1805 under the 
direction of William Dandridge Peck, the first Professor of 
Natural History. For ten years after 1822 it was under the 
charge of Thomas Nuttall, and subsequently was cared for by 
William Carter. Dr. Gray’s connection with it began in 1842. 
His library and herbarium were presented to Harvard College in 
1862, and were placed in the fireproof building they now occupy 
two years later. Since 1874 all the instruction in botany has 
been given by Professors Goodale and Farlow and their assistants. 
The herbarium is now said to number more than 300,000 speci- 
mens. 
Hypocreacee. RR aloe - the North American. Continued. 
(Journ. Mycol., ii., pp. 61 69.) 
Lilium pie ey (Garden, xxix., pp. 524, 525, two wood- 
cuts and a colored plate.) 
