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des, N. sulphurata, Homostegia Kelseyit, Dothidea Bigeloviae, 
Plowrightia staphyliana, P. symphoricarpi and Curreya sheph- 
erdi@. Under Valsa glandulosa, Cke., the authors state that 
specimens examined by them from several parts of the United 
States have the ostiola distinctly 4-5 sulcate. They therefore 
place it in the sub-genus Eutypella and take issue with Cooke 
who has described specimens from one of the same localities as a 
new species, Va/sa clavulata [Grevillea, xviii. 86]. Ac H, 
Fungi— New species of Montana. J. B. Ellis and F.W. An- 
derson. (Bot. Gaz. xvi. 45-49, Pl. vii and figs. in text). 
Lentinus pholiotoides, Phoma ilicina, Contothyrium tlicinum, 
Dothiorella Nelumbii, Volutella occidentalis (PI. vii, f. 1-6), V. 
occidentalis, var. minor, Sporidesmium sorisporoides, Macrosporium 
puccinioides, (Pl. vii, f. 7-11), <ctdium Liatridis, 42. Cleomis, 
44. Chrysopsidis, Pestaloziella Andersonii (PI. vii, f. 12-14) and . 
Helotium Montaniense—the latter figured in the text. 
Grasses—New. Geo. Vasey. (Bot. Gaz. xvi. 26-27). 
The following new species and varieties are described : Sporo- 
bolus pilosus, from Kansas, Bouteloua uniflora, from Texas, and 
Andropogon macrourus, Michx., var. pumilus, also from Texas. 
Hyphomycetes.— On certain New or Peculiar North American—I. 
Roland Thaxter. (Bot. Gaz. xvi. 14-26; PI. iii. and iv). 
The new species described are Zidocephalum echinulatum, GZ. 
verticillatum and Rhopalomyces strangulatus.. A new genus, 
_ Sigmoideomyces, is described, with a single species, S. dispir- 
oides. A syonopsis of the described species of Cidocephalum 
and Rhopalomyces is appended. The plates include the above 
named species, besides Rhopalomyces elegans, Corda, Cdocepha- 
lum glomerulosum. (Bull) Sacc., and O. pallidum (B. & Br.) Cost. — 
A. Hi: 
xuglans Vilmoriniana.—M. L. de Vilmorin, (Gard. & For. iv. 
51, 52, f. 11 and 12). 
Account and description ofa supposed hybrid between Jug- 
lans regia and J. nigra. The tree was planted as a seedling in a 
garden at Verriers, near Paris, and is now about seventy-five 
years old. Nothing is known of its origin. The seeds germin- 
ate readily, produce plants similar to the parent-and these in turn 
