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Rocky and Appalachian Mountain Systems as influencing the. 
Conway MacMillan. (Am. Nat., xxv. 146-150). 
Prof. MacMillan calls attention to the fact that the distribu- 
tion of species of boreal genera in the Rocky Mountain System 
as compared with the Southern Alleghenies, shows a preponder- 
ence of nearly double the number in the former, and accounts 
for this by the much greater altitude of the western mountains. 
Douglas Fir.—The. (Gard. and For. iv. 205, 206, fig. 38). 
Earth Stars. F.L. Sargent. (Pop. Sci. News, xxv. 72, 73; 
illustrated). 
A popular illustrated description of Geaster hygrometricus. 
Egg Plants —Experience With. L.H. Bailey. (Bull. No. 26, 
Cornell Agric. Exp. Sta. Illustrated). 
This paper begins with a general account of the cultivated 
varieties, and concludes with a description of their early history 
and ancestors. Solanum Melongena, vars. esculentum and de- 
pressum and S, integrifolium, are figured. : 
Eoichnites and Ctenichnites, n. gen. G. F. Matthew. (Trans. 
Roy. Soc. Can., Sec. iv. 1890. pp. 148-154, illustrated). 
The author here describes as markings due to molluscan (?) 
life, the markings which have heretofore been classed under the 
vegetable kingdom as Zophyton sp. 
Eperua Jenmani, Oliv. D. Oliver. (Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 1955). 
A new species of this Leguminous genus from British Guiana. 
Epichloe Hypoxylon. M.C. Cooke. (Grevillea xix. 80). 
According to the specimen in Ellis and Everhardt’s N. A. 
Fungi, this is identical with Hypocrella atramentosa, B. and C. 
Esenbeckia.—A New Species of. T. S. Brandegee. (Zoe, i. 
378; pl. xii). 
Description and representation of E. flava. 
European Aliens in America. A.W. Bennett. (Journ. Bot. 
SIXES 1). 
A short contribution, called forth by the article by Mr. T. D. 
A. Cockerell on the same subject. 
Fomes from Northern Montana.—A New. F. W. Anderson. 
(Bot. Gaz., xvi. 113, pl. xii). : 
Fomes Ellisianus, from living trunks and branches of Shep- 
herdia argentea, is described and figured as new. 
