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An illustrated account of peculiar screw-like fossils found in 
the Bad Lands of southwestern South Dakota and northwestern 
Nebraska. They were given the popular name of ‘ Devil’s 
Corkscrews’ at the time of discovery and the provisional name 
of Daimonelix is now proposed for them. They are described 
as gigantic coiled stems or rhizomes, sometimes extending ver- 
tically to a height of more than thirty feet and attached toa 
thick, rounded, obliquely inclined branch at the base. Its affini- 
ties are problematic, but one of the figures is not unlike Spiraxts, 
Newb., which has been considered by more than one observer as 
a fucoid stem. A. H. 
New Herbarium Pest—The. 4H. E. Hasse. (Bot. Gaz. xvii. 
99). 
Notes on the Cone-Bearers of Northwest America. J. G. Lem- 
mon. (Mining and Scientific Press, Jan. 16, 1892.) 
This is in effect the same article published in Garden and 
Forest, v. 64, Feb. 10, 1892, noticed in the BULLETIN, last num- 
ber, p. 100. The publication of the name Pinus attenuata, 
Lemmon, for P. tuberculata, Gordon not D. Don, is first effected 
in the Mining and Scientific Press, nearly a month before it ap- 
peared in Garden and Forest. 
Observation on the Protection of Bud in the Tropics. Conway 
MacMillan. (Bot. Gaz. xvii. 54). 
Ovular Structure of Casuarina suberosa. Conway MacMillan. 
(Bot. Gaz. xvii. 8 5). 
Orthotrichum del’ A merique—De quelques formes. Venturi. (Rev. 
Bryol. xix, 5). 
This is a preliminary account of the species of this genus 
collected by Dr. J. Roll, in 1888, but we are sorry to see that 
ae Venturi is transgressing the rules of nomenclature in adopt- 
ing ahomonym, O. stenocarpum, Bridel, for one of his proposed 
New species. We hope he may change the name before the de-- 
scription is printed. E. G. B. 
Outlines of Lessons in Botany for the use of Teachers, or Mothers 
Studying with Their Children. Jane H. Newell. (Part 11, 
Flower and F ruit, illustrated by H. P. Symmes, 8vo. 393, PP, 
Boston, 1892). 
