224 
Willey at New Bedford, on Clethra alnifolia and Ilex verticillata 
and also occurring in Germany. 
Malpighiacee Nove. F. Niedenzu. (Biebl. Engler’s Bot. 
Jahrb. xiv. No. 30, 1-7; one plate). 
Descriptions of new species in the genera Mascaguia, Htrea, 
Mezia, Gaudichaudia, Stigmatophyllon, Pilocheia, and Thryal- 
lis, all from South and Central America. : 
Melocacti novi ex Iusulis Archipelagi Indict Occtdentali Neer- 
landicis, Curacoa, Aruba et Bonaire. WW. F. R. Suringar. 
(Verslag. Akad. Vetensch. Amsterdam, Reeks 3, Deel 2, 
{-  183-195). 
_ Method of Studying the Growth of Tubers—A. Conway Mac- 
Millan. (Bot. Gaz., xvi. 149, 150). , 
_ Mission Scientifique du Cap Horn, 1882-1883, Lichens. J. 
Mueller. (4to, pp. 32, Paris, Gauthier Villars, 1888. See 
Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xxxvi. 60). 
Missouri Botanic Garden.—WNotes from the. (Gard. and For., 
iv. 225). 
Monstrous Form of a Field Daisy—A. B. W. Barton. (Bot. 
Gaz., xvi. 150, 151). 
Naturalized Plants of Southern California.—WNotes on the. S. 
B. Parish. (Zoe, i. 7-10; 56-59; 122-126; 182-188; 205- 
210; 261-265; 301-304; and ii. 26-34; also reprinted). 
The author notes seventy-eight species, and the copious 
memoranda accompanying them are of great interest. In future 
years we have no doubt that many of these will appear rather 
curious reading, if some of the species mentioned spread as rap- 
idly as they have done in the East. Thus in regard to Daucus 
Carota, we are told that two or three dozen were seen in a 
meadow at St. Elmo, and that this is their first recorded appear- 
ance in California. 4 
New Grasses. Geo. Vasey. (Bot. Gaz.. xvi. 145-147). 
Orcuttia Greenet, Eragrostis spicata, Muhlenbergia Ala- 
mose@, Calamagrostis densus, and C. keleroides, are described as 
new. : 
North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin No. 76. 
(Pamph., 8vo, pp. 20, illustrated. Raleigh, N. C., 1891). 
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