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Cottonwood from Baja California. T. S. Brandegee. (Zoe, i. 
27 4 27 5). 
Populus monticola described as new. 
Cypripediums longifolium and Lowi. (Gard. Chron. viii. 728- 
730, figs. 143, 144). 
Echinopsis cristata, Salm. H. Hildman. (Gartenflora, xxxviii. 
286-288, one figure). 
A Bolivian Cactus.. 
Ein Ausflug nach der Serra de Caparao (Staat Minas, Brazilien) 
nebst dem Versuche einer Vegetationsskizze der Dortigen Flora. 
W. Schwanke. (Engler’s Bot. Jahrb. xii. Beiblatt nr. 28, 4- 
10). : 
Fungus Diseases of the Sweet Potato—Some. Byron D. Halsted. 
(Bull. No. 76, N. J. Agric. Exp. Station, Nov. 28, 1890, 
illustrated). 
Black rot (Ceratocystis fimbriata); Soft rot (Rhizopus nigri- 
cans); Soil rot (Acrocystis batatas); Stem rot, White rot (Phoma 
batate); Sweet Potato Scurf (onzlochetes infuscans); Leaf blight 
Phyllosticta bataticola) and Leaf mould (Cystopus Ipomeepandu- 
rat@) are described and figured. 
Index to Volumes vit-xvi Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 
Compiled by Elizabeth G. Britton. (Pamph. 8vo. pp. 31, 
New York, 1890). 
List of the Plants of Ohio—Supplementary. Wm. R. Lazenby 
and W.C. Werner. (Pamph. 8vo. pp. 10, Ohio State Univer- 
sity, Columbus, Ohio, Dec., 1890). 
In this neatly printed and carefully edited pamphlet the 
authors state that it “is published for the purpose of showing 
what additions have been made to the last published catalogue,” 
but they fail to say to what catalogue they refer. Among the 
various sources from which their information has been obtained, 
they fail to mention the ‘‘ Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and 
Ferns of Ohio,” by J. S. Newberry, published in 1860, and we 
infer that they have not seen it, inasmuch as about a dozen of 
their “ additions” are mentioned in that work. Amongst these 
we note Vymphea odorata, Geum rivale, Myosotis laxa, Lophan- 
thus scrophulariafolius, Quercus prinoides, Smilax glauca and 
