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The following are described as new: Carex obnupia, C. quad- 
rifida, C. quadifida, var. lenis and C. monile, Tuckm. var. 
Pacifica. 
Cereus (Pilocereus) Sargentianus. C. R. Orcutt. (Gard. and For. 
iv. 436; f. 69). 
Description and representation of a possible new species, 
heretofore referred to C. Schottiz, Engelm. 
Conifers on Mount Ranier. Chas. V. Piper. (Gard. and For. iv. 
392., £62) 
Tsuga Pattoniana, Abies lasiocarpa, A. nobilis, A. amabilis, 
Chamecyparts Nutkaensis and Pinus albicaulis are noted. 
Contributions a la Flore Bryologique du Bresil. V. F. Brotherus. 
(Acta Soc. Sci. Fennice, xix. 30 pp. Helsingfors, 1891, 
reprinted). 
This is an enumeration of the mosses collected by Dr. E. 
Wainio previous to 1887, with description of twenty-six 
new species, several of which have been supplied with manuscript 
names by Dr. C. Miiller and three Sphagnums described by 
Herr Warnstorf. 
Contributions to American Botany—XVIITI, Sereno Watson. 
(Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci. xxvi. 124-163; reprinted). 
This paper contains: I. Description of some new North Amer- 
ican species, chiefly of the United States, with a revision of the 
American species of the genus Erythronium. The following are 
described as new: Avabis Macounit and Silene Macounii from 
British Columbia ; Erysimum arenicola from Washington ; Mim- 
ulus filicaulis, Cladothrix cryptantha, Eriogonum minutiflorum 
and £. deserticola from California ; Zostera Oregana and Z. Pact- 
jica (the latter already described as Z. marina var. latifolia by 
Dr. Morong), from the Pacific coast. Thirteen species of Ery- 
thronium are described, one of them, £. montanum, from Oregon 
and Washington, as new. 
II. Descriptions of new Mexican species collected chiefly by 
Mr. C. G. Pringle in 1889 and 1890. Mr. Pringle’s collections 
still continue to yield Dr. Watson an abundant crop of new 
species, there being about eighty-eight here characterized, to- 
gether with two new genera, Meopringlea and Oligonema. 
III]. Upon a wild species of Zea from Mexico. The discov- 
