79 
is best distinguished from EZ. palustre by the much larger central 
hollow of the stem, and by the more numerous and shallower 
furrows; from £. imosum by the smaller hollow, by the furrows 
being deeper and fewer, by its paler color, and conspicuously by 
the funnel-shaped uppermost sheaths.” 
Fissidens.—A Revision of the North American Species of.— C. R. 
Barnes. (Bot. Gaz., xii., pp. 1-8, and 25-32 Reprinted.) 
This embodies the results of a winter’s work at Cambridge 
with the Sullivant collection and library, and speaks well for the 
author’s critical discrimination and judgment. He also used the 
material accumulated by the late Mr. Austin, though no mention 
of this is made in the paper. It reduces the number of species 
from 24 in Lesq. & James Manual to 20, by combining those 
too closely allied and discarding doubtful species, and gives clear 
descriptions and diagnostic characters for those accepted. 
Flora near Santa Barbara, Cal—Mrs. R. F. Bingham. (Bot. 
Gaz. xii., pp. 33-35.) 
Florida Fungi.—Notes on.—No. 11.—W. W. Calkins. (Journ. 
Mycol., iii., pp. 33, 34-) 
A list of 20 species and varieties of Polyporus, collected near 
Jacksonville. 
Florida’s new Palm—Chamephenix Sargentit. 
In the Florida Farmer and Fruit Grower, of Feb. 23, 1887, 
is an interesting account of this new tree, from the pen of Mr. A. 
H. Curtiss. 
Heuchera and Mitella—Astringent Qualities of.—F. W. Ander- 
son. (Bot. Gaz., xii., pp. 65, 66.) 
History of Garden Vegetables —E. Lewis Sturtevant. (Amer. 
Nat., xxi., pp. 49-59.) 
Interesting notes are given on the African Valerian (Valeriana 
Cornucopia, L.), native to the Mediterranean Region, and fur- 
nishing an excellent salad; Alexanders (Smyrnium olusatrum, 
L.); Alkekengi (seven species of Physa/is) ; Barbarea precox, 
R. Br., known as American cress, though a native of the Old 
World; Angelica (Angelica Archangelica, L.), and Anise (Pim- 
pinella Anisum, L.) 
Lewisia rediviva. (Garden, xxxi., p. 124, plate 582.) 
A most delicately colored plate is given of this Western plant. 
