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A list of 23 species of mosses not hitherto reported from 
Kansas and of new localities for many others. 
Leucophyllum Texanum. Gilbert Onderdonk. (Gard. Month., 
iit.) ps 2772) 
Lichens not previously reported from Kansas. H. Willey.’ (Bull. 
Washburn Coll. Lab. Nat. Hist., i., p. 176.) 
Five species not hitherto recorded are enumerated. 
Liriodendron Tulipifera. (Lloyd’s Drugs and Medicines N. A., 
ii, pp. I-21, one plate, six figures and a map.) ; 
The first part of the second volume of the Messrs. Lloyd’s 
valuable work contains a full account of Liriodendron and our 
native Magnolias. Allusion is made to the difference in color 
and texture of the wood of the Tulip Tree, a difference well 
known to all lumbermen, though the cause is as yet unexplained. 
Magnolia. (Lloyd’s Drugs and Medicines N. A., ii., pp. 21-32, 
two plates and seven figures.) 
Figures of JZ. acuminata and M. glauca are given on plates 
XXVIII and XXIX of the work, and the fruit of JZ. grandiflora 
on p. 32. 
Monterey Cypress at Home. (Garden, xxx., p. 189 ; one cut.) 
A good engraving from a photograph taken of Cupressus 
macrocarpa at Monterey, Cal. : 
Navajo Names for Plants. W. Matthews, U. S. A. (Amer. 
Nat., xx., pp-.767-777.) 
Dr. Matthews has rendered botanists and philologists a valu- 
able service in recording the names given by the Navajo Indians 
to many of the plants among which they live. He remarks that 
their plant-lore is remarkable for its extent and accuracy. The 
list given is certainly large, numbering 95 species, and there are 
many others for which no satisfactory etymology can be found. 
Pinus edulis. Sir J. D. Hooker. (Gard. Chron. xxvi., p. 300, fig. 61.) 
Polyporus officinalis, Fries. W.W. Calkins. (Journ. Mycol., 
ii., p. 107.) : 
It is stated that this fine and rare species is occasionally found _ 
on living trees of the White Pine in the Michigan forests. The — 
fungus has a very bitter taste, similar to that of quinine, in place — 
of which it has been used to some extent. 
