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The difficulty is that there are only two or three-men in the 
country sufficiently conversant with the plants to make this ex- 
amination of any value. We wish Dr. Vasey might see his 
way clear to do it himself. In the pages which lie before 
us the arrangement of Dr. Hackel’s “True Grasses”’ is pretty 
closely followed, the tribes Maydex, Andropogonez, Boysia, 
Panicez, Phalarideze and Agrostidee being included. The fol- 
lowing are described as new species: 77ipsacum Floridanum, 
Porter (and this publication takes precedence of Dr. Porter's 
detailed description in the April BULLETIN, p. 130); Z. Lem- 
mont, from Arizona; Andropogon Mohri, from Alabama ; 
Eriochloa Lemmoni, Vasey and Scribner, from the Southwest; 
E. longifolia, from Florida; Setaria pauciseta, from Texas and 
Mexico; Phalaris Lemmoni, from California; Aristida Nealleyt, 
from Texas; A. palustris, from Florida; A. divergens, from the 
Southwest; Sporobolus auriculatus, from Texas; Muhlenbergia 
Reverchont, Vasey and Scribner, from Texas; JZ. Emersleyi, 
from Arizona; J7. Huachucana, from California; Agrostis densi- 
fora, from California; A. Nove-Anglia, from New England; A. 
Ross@, from Wyoming; Calamagrostis robusta, from the Rocky 
Mountains ; and probably a considerable number of others not 
indicated as new, but which from the want of citations we are 
unable to say whether here first proposed or not without looking 
through recent papers by the author and the writings of Profes- 
sor Scribner. 
This want of citations and synonomy is a very serious defect 
in the work, which we are glad to know from Dr. Vasey will be 
made right in a forthcoming Appendix. We have not space 
to note other features of this important contribution, such as the 
numerous reductions of proposed species to varieties, and the 
limits accepted for the genera. The work should be in the hands 
of all who wish to study these plants, and can doubtless be ob- 
tained by application to the Secretary of Agriculture. ye 
Mt. Kataadn and Its Flora. ¥, Lamson-Scribner. (Bot. Gaz. 
xvii. 46). 
New Gigantic Fossils—Notice of. I. H. Barbour. (Science 
XiX. 99, 100; figs. 1-3). 
