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ery ofa wild grass closely enough related to Indian corn to be 
placed in the same genus, is a fact of the greatest interest. The 
seeds were received by Dr. Watson from Professor A. Duges of 
Guanajuato, Mexico, and had been reported to him as growing 
wild at Moro Leon. This corn was planted at the Cambridge 
Botanic Garden, where it fortunately grew, producing plants over 
ten feet high. It differs considerably from any form of Zea Mays 
known to Dr. Watson, and he describes it as Z. canina, its local 
name being Mais de Coyote. The natives of the region in which 
ito ccurs believe that it is the original of the cultivated Indian 
corn. It is perhaps needless to remark here that up to the pres- 
ent discovery no Zea Mays, nor any grass closely resembling it, 
had been known in the wild condition. 
IV. Upon a collection of plants from the Island of Ascention. 
This is an enumeration of the plants collected on that island by 
Mr. E. J. Loomis during the visit of the U. S. Eclipse Exploring 
Expedition of 1889. Rubus nanus, Asplenium Ascentionts and 
Nephrodium (2) viscidum are described as new. Ny heb. 
Dacryopsis, Massee—On. (Grevillea, xx. 23-25). 
Three species in this recently-erected genus are described 
from the New World: D. gyrocephala, D. Ellisiana, and D. uni- 
color. 
Descriptions of New Plants, chiefly Gamopetale, collected in 
Mexico by C. G. Pringle. B. L. Robinson. (Proc. Amer. 
Acad. xxvi. 164-176; reprinted). 
New species and varieties are described in the following 
genera: Xylosma, Desmodium, Pimpinella, Eupatorium, Gym- 
nolomia, Otopappus, Senecio, Laurentia, Lobelia, Nemacladus, 
Symplocos, Gonolobus, Buddleia, Cordia, Heliotropium, Ompha- 
lodes, Ipomoea, Bassovia, Withania, Herpestis, Gerardia, Castit- 
leta, Justicia, Citharexylum and Scutellaria. 
Descriptions of Mimulus Congdoni and M. gractlipes, new 
species from California, and of Aster Engelmanni, Gray, var. (?) 
paucicapitatus, from Washington, are appended. Me leB: 
Destruction of California Wild Flowers—The. Chas. H. Shinn. 
(Gard. and For. iv. 382, 383). 
Elisena longipetala. C. G. Van Tubergen, Jr. (Gard. xl. 110, 
__. illustrated). : 
