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G. Pringle near Guadalajara in 1888. Geo. E. Davenport. 
(Bot. Gaz. xvi. 53, 54). 
The author makes use of the parallel column and concludes 
from the comparison of descriptions that Motholena Nealleyt, 
Seaton, is not specifically distinct from Motholena sp? Pringle 
No. 1864. The conclusion is that the latter should rank as a 
variety of the former and be known as JV. Wealleyt, Seaton, var. 
Mexicana. 
Quebracho, Part I.. H. H. Rusby. (Reprint from Bull. Pharm. 
Jan. 1891, illustrated). 
An illustrated account of Aspzdosperma en and 
its confusion with 4. Colorado. 
Rafinesque—Some Generaof. Edward L. Greene. (Pittonia, ii. 
120-133). 
Professor Greene points out that Lepargyr@a, Raf. antedates 
Shepherdia, Nutt. by abouta year, and transfers our three describ- 
ed species to that genus, that /oxry/on, Raf. has about equal pre- 
cedence over Maclura, Nutt. the proper name for the Osage 
Orange being J. pomiferum, Raf. and that Bolelia, Raf. should 
replace Dewningia, Torr.; he takes up Micrampelis, Raf. for 
Echinocystis, Torr. and Gray, and Megarrhiza, Torr., following 
the point made by Mr. Jas. Britten in Journ. Bot. xxvi. 261 
(1888), and recognizes Pizloria, Raf. (1832) as prior to Stephan- 
omeria, Nutt. (1841), consisting of 16 species, two of which are 
here first described. 
Ranunculacee aus dem Westlichen Nord Amerika, gesammelt 
in Auftrage Dr. Dieck's-Zoschen. Bestimmt von J. Freyn. 
(Deutsche Bot. Monats. viii. 73-79). 
This is an enumeration of the Ranunculacee collected in 
British Columbia, Montana and Oregon, by the expedition sent 
by Dr. Dieck in 1887 and 1888 under the charge of Dr. ROll. 
The following species are given: Clematis ligusticifolia, T. and G. ; 
C. Pseudoatragene, O. Kuntze, var. normalis, O. Kuntze (C. 
verticillarts, DC.); Thalictrum occidentale, A. Gray; T. 
Cornutt, Lawson, not L., which is apparently what we now know 
as T. polygamum, Muhl.; Fulsatilla occidentalis, Freyn (Anemone 
occidentalis, S. Wats; Anemone parviflora, Michx ; Anemone 
