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California Academy are so scanty as to reach only a favored few, 
and there is no other journal which can bring us just what Pit- 
tonia does. Whatever opinion may exist as to the author’s in- 
terpretation of what he sees, we are not aware that anyone has 
yet questioned the accuracy of his observations. His well-known 
advocacy of the importance of field study shows itself very 
strongly in several places. Fi Hick. 
Monographie der Gattung Clematis. A monograph of Clem- 
atis by Dr. Otto Kuntze is published in the Verhandlungen des 
Botanischen Vereins der Provinz Brandenburg, 1885, pp. 83-202, 
It is based on specimens collected by the author in his. travels 
around the world, and those in the herbaria and botanic gardens 
of Berlin, Kew, the British Museum, Leyden, Brussels and Paris. 
Sixty-six species, about one hundred subspecies anda great 
number of varieties and subvarieties are recognized. His arrange- 
ment of these, so far as it affects North American plants, may be 
of interest to readers of the BULLETIN. 
The genus is primarily divided into two series: (a) Scandentes, 
the climbing, and (b) Escandentes. C. dioica, L., emend., includes 
all our dicecious or polygamous climbing forms; as subspecies we 
find Virginiana, L., Dominica, Lam. (C. holosericea, Pursh.) from 
the Southern States, Mexico and the West Indies, zormalis, Ktze., 
credited to Niagara, (?) Mexico, the Antilles and South America, 
cordata, Pursh.,(C. ligusticifolia, Nutt.) from Virginia,(?) the Rocky 
Mountains, California and tropical America, sericea, HBK., in 
which is included C. Higusticifolia, var. Californica,Watson, as var. 
typica from western North America, Mexico and the Andes, also 
Drummondit. T. and G., and var. ervata, Benth., and finally 
sub. sp. Catesbyana, Pursh, with five varieties. Under C. Viorna, 
L., we find as subspecies, reticulata, Walt., with four varieties, 
normalis, Ktze, and coccinea, Gray. Under C. Simsii, Sweet, are 
Pitcheri, T. & G., normalis, Ktze., lobata, Ktze., and jilifera, 
Benth. C. Viticella, L. emend., has as subs~ecies crispa, L., and 
Walteri, Pursh. C. lasiandra, Nutt., includes pauciflora, Nutt., 
normalis, Ktze., pseudoligusticifolia, Ktze., and fallax, Ktze. 
C. pseudoatragene, n. sp., is the C. alpina, var. Ochotensis, Gray, 
and four subspecies of it are created. C. alpina, L., sub. sp. o¢ci- 
denialis,, Hornem., includes the other American plants of section 
