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_ The collection is particularly rich in western and southern plants, 
and would make a very valuable addition to an eastern herbarium 
which lacks those plants. It is now offered for sale by Mrs. 
Parry, and copies of the list will be sent, (when issued), on appli- 
cation to Mrs. E. R. Parry, Davenport, Iowa. 
Nyssa Sinensis is anew species of Tupelo described by Prof. 
D. Oliver in Hooker’s Icones Plantarum, Plate 1964. The genus 
was formerly supposed to be confined to eastern North America, 
but has been found in the Himalayas, and this last species was 
collected by Dr. A. Henry in China. It is a small tree, about 20 
feet high with ovate lanceolate, acuminate leaves, and pedicelled 
ovaries. 
A Monument to Linneus. The Chicago Herald of May 22d, 
contains an accountand representation of the monument to Lin- 
nzus, presented to the City of Chicago by the Swedish Linnzan 
Monument Association. The figure of the great botanist is of 
bronze, upon a granite pedestal and when completed will have 
four allegorical figures at the. base, representing four of the 
sciences in which he was distinguished. 
Hepatice Americane, L. M. Underwood and O. F. Cook. 
We have recently received numbers 80-100, including recent col- 
lections in Florida by Prof. Underwood, in Mexico by Pringle, 
Macoun’s British Columbia, Leiberg’s Idaho, and New England 
specimens from A. W. Evans in the following genera: Anthoceros, 
Asterella, Chiloseyphus, Frullania, Fubula, Fungermania, Lejeu- 
nia, Lepidozia, Lophocolea, More Nardia, Plagiochila, 
Porella, and Radula. EAs B. 
Potamogeton Favanicus, Hassk. and its Synonymy. Dr. 
Hans Schinz (Bull. Soc. Bot. Suisse i., 52-61). Dr. Schinz shows 
that the plant hitherto known as P. tenuicaulis, F. Von Miiller, 
and P. pavzfolia, Buch., and sometimes erroneously regarded as 
synonymous with our North American P. hybridus, Mx., from 
North Australia, Formosa, Japan and Korea, should bear the older 
name PF. Favanicus, Hassk. T.-M. 
Reviews of Foreign Literature. 
Contribution a l Histoire Naturelle de la Truffe. A. Chatin. 
(Bull. Soc. Bot., France, xxxviii. 54-64). 
