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Index to Recent Literature relating to American Botany. 
Address at the Washington Meeting of the American Associatun 
for the Advancement of Science. George Lincoln Goodale 
August, 1891 (reprint). 
Artificial Keys to the Genera and Species of Mosses Recognized 
Lesquereux and James’ Manual of the Mosses of North Amet- 
ica. Additions and Corrections by Charles R. Barnes. (Trans, 
Wisc. Acad. Sci. and Let. viii. 163-167, reprinted.) o 
These four pages of corrections are sufficient evidence tha 
the keys are being used, and therefore serving the purpose the 
were intended for. We regret that in reprinting these correc 
tions both sides of the paper should have been used, also that one 
important fact determined by me should have been omitted. In 
Orthotrichum Douglassii the stomata are superficial, as shown B 
the type preserved in Duby’s collection in the Boissier Herb 
rium at Geneva, therefore the foot note on page 164 and corre¢ 
tion for page 48 should be omitted. Copies of this sheet may 
be had by those having the keys, on application to the author 
accompanied by a two-cent stamp. E., G. & 
Bromeliaceen—Die von Bernoulli und Cario 1866-1878 in G 
temala gesamelten. L. Wittmack. (Engler’s Bot. Jahrb. xt 
Beiblatt 32, 1891). 
AEchmea Bernoulliana, A. Iguaua, Pitcairnia Carioana, ft 
landsia remota and T. Cucaénsis are described as new. a 
Carnation Disease—The Specific Germ of the. J. C. Arth : 
(Proc. Am. Ass. Ad. Sci. xxxix. 3 34). 
Catalogue of the Phenogamous and Vascular Cryptogamow 
Plants in the Vicinity of St. Louis, Mo. Henry Egge 
(Pamph. 8vo. pp. 16). i 
This is a list of the plants growing within a radius of about 
forty miles around St. Louis. It is arranged alphabetically and 
about 1,100 species are enumerated, most of them observed 
the author himself since 1874. Parthenium repens, Eggert, ® 
described as new, with the following characters: ‘‘ Low, 1 1 : 
feet high, rough pubescent with spreading hairs, corymbosel 
branched above, the branches terminated by a loose cyme of 
rather few heads. Rootstock creeping, forming runners. April 
