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Wood and Gerald McCarthy. (Journ. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc., 
1885-86, pp. 77-141. Also reprinted, pp. 69, Raleigh, 1887.) 
A neatly printed catalogue of 1,168 species and 34 varieties of 
Phanerogamia and Pteridophyta growing in New Hanover Co., 
N.C. 1,046 species are regarded as indigenous. A map of the 
county accompanies the paper. 
Woodsia obtusa and Viola palmata —Varities of. Willard A. 
Stowell. (Journ. Trenton Nat. Hist. Soc., i., pp. 23-26.) 
Woodsia obtusa, Torr., var. Darlingtonit, is the name pro- 
posed by Mr. Stowell for a large form of this fern, the frond 
nearly tripinnate, the pinnz distant, lanceolate and acute, the 
rhachis scarcely or not at all winged, and the sori larger than in 
the type, from the mountains of Bergen County, near Darling- 
ton, N. J. 
Variety variegata of Viola palmata, L., is described with the 
following characters: ‘ Pubescent; leaves dark green, purplish 
beneath, reniform cordate to cordate, coarsely crenate; petals 
curiously streaked and mottled with white and purple; lateral 
petals densely bearded.” Habitat, dry woods, Somerset Co., N. J. 
Botanical Notes. 
Pittonia.* The first number of Pittonia, to be indexed hereafter, 
will not fail to excite the liveliest interest in botanical circles. It 
comes to us without any prospectus, editorial, or introduction of 
any kind beyond its titular announcement that it is ‘‘a ‘series of 
botanical papers.” But it is something more than a series of 
papers by one of the most accurate of American scholars, it is an 
appeal by a man who, finding certain of the results of his studies 
at variance with those of the recognized authorities, calls for a 
public judgment upon them. It is to be hoped that we shall not 
follow our usual custom of deciding such questions in the easiest 
and least responsible way, but will give to this one the attention 
that its importance demands. As the representative of the leading 
investigator of our Pacific coast, Pittonia must be welcomed by 
everyone. It brings to us reliable information concerning a class 
of facts not elsewhere accessible; fir the publications of the 
“*Prrronta. A series of botanical papers by Edward L. Greene, Ass’t Professor 
of Botany in the University of California. No. 1, March, 1887 ; price, 50 cents. 
