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Grove, town of Greenfield, Saratoga County, following the course 
of the boisterous Kayderoserus to the mouth of the famous trout 
brook, Morehouse Brook, No. 1, about one mile northwest of 
Middle Grove village. The very first thing I met here after 
crossing the bridge were whole patches of the M/imu/us, hanging 
over the banks of the brooklet, with their frosty foliage perfuming 
the whole atmosphere. Following the course of the water the 
plant was found wherever a clear space was left for the sun to 
shine upon the loamy soil. About one mile up the creek—in 
full view of the foot-hills of the well-known Adirondacks, the 
plant has its headquarters in a springy swamp, growing in all 
directions in the midst of the water, often two feet high. A trap- 
per informed me of having known the plant here always and no- 
where else in the neighborhood: How this far western plant 
came there I am not able to tell, but it is there and in great 
abundance. J. H. WIBBE. 
[This species was found by the late Mr. Julius A. Bisky in 
1886, growing ina boggy swamp, about two miles east of Locust 
Valley, Queens Co., Long Island, N. Y., on the right hand side 
of the Oyster Bay road. He reported it as perfectly at home, 
and scattered over a considerable area (BULLETIN, xiv. 13). A 
specimen from this locality is preserved in the Columbia College 
Herbarium.—N. L. B.] 
Reviews of Foreign Literature: 
Monographie Phanerogamarum. Vol. vit. Melastomacee. Alfred 
Cogniaux. (8vo. pp. 1256, Paris, July, 1891.) 
M. Cogniaux’s long-continued studies of the Melastomaceze 
have culminated in the production of this fine volume. It con- 
tains descriptions of 2,702 species and 534 varieties. Miconia is 
the largest genus, containing 518 species. Seven genera accept- 
ed by Bentham and Hooker are rejected, and the following new 
ones proposed: Schwackea, Benevidesia, Bisglaztovia, Barbeyas- 
trum, Beccarianthus, Boerlagea, Brittenia and Medinillopsis. As 
in M. Cogniaux’s previous monographs, the oldest unpreoccupied 
specific names satisfactorily ascertained are adopted. An 
appendix of twenty-two pages contains additional species, which 
have come to notice during the printing of the book, the main 
portion having been completed in September, 1889. _N. L. B. 
