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three or four primary divisions, the latter having many rays 6” to 
15” long, forming umbels; the short rays bearing single flowers, the 
long ones umbelets of many (ten to thirty) flowers each; the 
umbelets on each plant varying in number from five to seventy. 
Near Lambertville, New Jersey. 
AUSTIN G. APGAR, Trenton, N. J. 
A Point in Nomenclature. 
There can be no question that the specific name to be borne 
by our species of C/iftonza is that given to it originally by Gert- 
ner, namely, Cliftonia nitida. Its synonymy in brief is as follows: 
Cliftonia nitida, Geertn., fil., Fruct., iii., 247, t. 225, fig. 5 (1805). 
Ptelea monophylla, Lam., ll., i., 336 (1791). This long remained a puzzle, 
though correctly solved by Nuttall (Gen., i., 104). Jussieu (Mem. Rut., 127) sus- 
pected it to be a species of Rumex. 
: Milocaryum ligustrinum, Willd., Enum., 454 (1807). 
‘*Waltheria Caroliniensis, Fras., Cat.’’ 
Cliftonia ligustrina, Spreng., Syst., 2, 316 (1825). 
SERENO WATSON. 
Index to Recent American Botanical Literature. 
Botanical Estrays.—T. H. McBride. (Amer. Nat., xxi., pp. 572- 
573-) 
Mr. McBride records the discovery of two species of Lycopo- 
dium at lowa City; none have hitherto been reported from the 
State. 
Carices of Pennsylvania—A List of the. (Proc. Acad. Nat. 
Sci., Phila., 1887, pp. 68-80; advance sheets. Also re- 
printed, pamph., 8vo., pp. 12.) 
Professor Porter enumerates 98 species and 24 varieties of 
Carex, an unexpectedly large number for a single State. We 
doubt if New York has as many, and the number exceeds those 
detected in New Jersey by at least fifteen. Full localities are 
given by counties. Pennsylvania is the southern limit of several 
species, among them C. pauciflora, Lightf., C. retrorsa, Schwei- 
nitz, C. vulgaris, Fries, C. Magellanica, Lam., C. arctata, Boott., 
and C. chordorhiza, Ehrh., while it is the most northern habitat 
of C. Shortiana, Dewey. Prof. Porter contends for the specific 
rank of his C. Smithii, and describes the following new varieties: 
C. granularis, Muhl., var. Haleana, C. tetanica, Schk. vars. 
Canéyi and Cartert. 
