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Torrey Botanical Club are credited with having found seven, 
during the several field day excursions to Staten Island. __ 
Fossil Woods and Lignites from Arkansas—Description of. F. 
H. Knowlton. (Reprint from Ann. Rept. Geol. Surv. Ark. 
for the year 1889; ii. 249-267, Pl. ix., x., xi.) 
In this paper the author has given us still further proof of the 
value of his microscopic examinations of fossil woods. The 
specimens in question are from the Eocene Tertiary of Arkansas 
and the following are described and figured as new species : 
Cupressinoxylon Arkansanum, C. Calli, Laurinoxylon Branneri 
and L. Lesqguereuxiana. . xo 
Leptothyrium periclyment, Desm. J. B. Ellis and B. M. Ever- 
hart. (Journ. Mycol. vi. 116). 
Note upon a new variety of this species (var. Americanum) 
on a Lonicera found in Ontario, Can. 
Mina lobata. (Garden, xxxix. 144, 145, Pl. 792). 
Notes on North American Trees—X XIV. C. S. Sargent. (Gard. 
and For. iv. 100). : 
Memorandum upon the difference between Hyfelate trifoliata 
and H. paniculata, which latter the author shows should be 
known as Erothea paniculata, Radlk. - There is also brief refer- 
ence to £. Copallilo. 
Orchids of New England—The Native. Walter Deane. (Am. 
Gard. xii. 152-157, figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). 
The following species are figured: Habenaria jimbriata, H. 
dilatata, H. tridentata, Liparis Lilitfolia, Calypso borealis and 
Aplectrum hyemale, the figures being taken from Mr. Baldwin's 
work on the same subject. 
Passiflora racemosa. (Garden, xxxix. 168, 169, Pl. 793). 
Pear Disease—A New. B. T. Galloway. (Journ. Mycol. vi. 
113, 114). 
Note upon Thelephora pedicillata, which is also said to be 
found upon such widely separated genera as Quercus coccinea 
and Sabal Palmetto. 
Plants which Grow About Lynn, North Carolina. ¥E. H. Hors- 
ford. (Gard. and For. iv. 86). 
Prunus ilicifolia, var. occidentalis. Geo. B. Sudworth. (Gard. 
and For. iv. 51). 
