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being divided and only one, 7. mo//is, Mueller, being unknown to 
the author, . E.G, B. 
Grasses of the Southwest. Geo. Vasey. (U. S. Depart. Agric. 
Division of Bot. Bull. No. 12). 
Bulletin No. 12 is Part II. of Dr. Vasey’s valuable work on 
the grasses of the desert region of Western Texas, New Mexico, 
Arizona and Southern California. 
The fifty species figured are: Elionurus tripsacotdes, Hil- 
aria vigida, Paspalum distichum, P. lividum, P. pubtfiorum, 
Phalaris intermedia, var. angusta, Aristida purpurea, Stipa 
pennata, S. Scribneri, Oryzopsits membranacea, O. fimbriata, 
Muhlenbergia Buckleyana, M. Neo-Mexicana, M. Schaffneri, 
M. depauperata, Lycurus phleoides, Sporobolus argutus, S. 
Buckleyti, S. interruptus, S. tricholepis, S. Wrights, Trisetum 
Halli, I. interruptum, Chloris Swartsiana, Trichloris plurifiora, 
a vertictllata, Schedonardus Texanus, Pappophorum apertum, 
P. Wrightii, Cottea pappophoroides, Scleropogon Karwinskianus, 
Munroa Squarrosa, Triodia acuminata, T. albescens, T. eragrost- 
otdes, T. grandiflora, T. Nealleyi, P. pilchella, T. stricta, T. 
Texana, T. trinerviglumis, Diplachne fascicularis, D. imbricata, 
D. Reverchoni, D. vigida, D. viscida, Eragrostis curtipedicellata, 
E. lugens, E. oxylepis, E. Purshit and Elymus Sitanton. 
The plates are very beautiful, the detail work being especially 
fine. Dr. Vasey will shortly publish another volume, “ Grasses 
of the Pacific Coast.” 
Hepatice Americane. Prepared by L. M. Underwood and O. 
F. Cook, 1891. 
' We have received decades XI. and XII. of this fine series of 
exsiccatee, including species from Mexico collected by P ringle ; 
Florida and Georgia, Underwood ; Louisiana, Langlois ; Connec- 
ticut and New Hampshire, Evans; Washington, Piper; and Cal- 
ifornia, by Miss Ida Teed. The following genera are represented : 
Aneura, Calypogeia, Dumortiera, Fimbriaria, Fossombronia, 
Frullania, Jungermania, Kantia, Liochlena, Pallavicinia, Plagt- 
ohila, Porella and Radula. E. G. B. 
Hepatice—An A rrangement of the Genera of. By A. W. Evans. 
(Trans, of the Conn. Acad. Vol. iii. 1892 reprint). 
This pamphlet will prove an excellent guide for the arrange- 
