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Index to Recent Literature Relating to American Botany. 
A New Herbarium Pest. C.V. Riley. (Gard. and For. iv. 543, 
544, fig. 84, 85). 
An illustrated description of a new pest found in the herba- 
rium of the Department of Agriculture, chiefly infesting plants 
from the southwestern part of the United States. It has been 
determined to be a new species of geometrid moth, under the 
name Carphoxera ptelearia. 
Abies magnifica, var. Shastensis. (Gard. Chron. x. 430; f. 55) 
Adiantum cuneatum. (Gard. xl. 360; illustrated). % 
Agave albicans. J. G. Baker. (Bot. Mag. t. 7207). 
American Beech—The. (Am. Gard. xii. 742, 743; illustrated), 
An account and full page plate of Fagus ferruginea. 
American Buckeyes—The. (Gard. and For. iv. 517, 518, fig. 81). 
Contains a representation of 4sculus Californica. 
Annual Report of the State Botanist. Chas. H. Peck. (From 
44th Ann. Rept. N. Y. State Museum Nat. Hist., Albany, 
Jan. 31st, 1891 ; pl. i-iv). 
In the list of additions to the State Herbarium here noted are 
thirty-six species of fungi described as new, of which the follow- 
ing are figured: Armillaria viscidipes, Crepidotus distans. Om- 
phalia corticola, Pleurotus campanulatus, Saccharomyces Betula, 
Cortinarius albidus, Tricholoma grande, Ramularia graminicola, 
R. destruens, Cercosporella Veratri, Aspergillus aviarius, Sep- 
tomyxa Carpini, Bispora effusa, Caryospora minor and Phyllo- 
sticta Ludwigia. 
Polypodium vulgare, L., var. cristatum, Lowe, is described 
and figured from specimens collected in Dutchess County. 
The genus Tricholoma is made the subject of a mono- 
graph, and forty-eight species from New York are collected. 
A list of the fleshy-fungi of Maryland, by Miss Mary E. Ban- 
ning, is included. It numbers one hundred and seventy-nine 
species, of which fourteen are described as new. The manu- 
Script, accompanied by one hundred and seventy-five colored 
plates, has been donated to the New York State Museum, where 
they have been bound in one large volume for safe keeping and 
Preservation. The botanists of New York should certainly feel 
proud of this mark of appreciation from one outside the State, 
