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All communications should be addressed to Dr. David Levi- 
Morenos, Piscina San Samuele, 3422, Venezia, Italy. 
Index to Recent Literature Relating to American Botany, 
Additions to the Catalogue of San Francisco Plants. Katharine 
Brandegee (Zoé, iii. 49, 50). 
Notes on twenty species additional to the list published last 
year. 
American Species of the Genus Anemone and the Genera which 
have been referred to it. N. L. Britton. (Annals N. Y. Acad. 
Sci. vi. 215-238 ; Contrib. Herb. Col. Coll. No. 23). 
The six genera Pulsatilla, Anemone, Hepatica, Capethia, Bar- 
neoudia and Syndesmon (Anemonella), included by recent authors 
in Anemone are maintained as distinct. A. patens, var. Nuttall- 
tana, A, Gray, is taken up under the name Pudsatilla hirsutis- 
stma(Pursh ); Anemone decapetala, Ard. (1764) is A. heterophylla, 
Nutt. (1838); 4. sphenophylla, Poepp., is the southwestern Rocky 
Mountain plant hitherto referred to A. decapetala, L.; A. Teton- 
ensis, Porter, is a new species from Idaho; A. Lyallii, from the 
Northwest, 4. Peruviana, from Peru, and A. Hemsleyi, from 
Mexico, are also described as new ; A. nudicaulis, A. Gray, from 
Lake Superior, proves to be Ranunculus Lapponicus, L. Cape- 
thia (anagram of FHlepatica) is the generic name proposed for two 
plants of the higher Andes. Barneoudia Balliana is a new 
Species from the Argentine Republic. 
Archegonium and Apical Growth of the Stem in T: Suga Cana- 
densis and Pinus sylvestris—On the. D. M. Mottier (Bot. 
Gaz. xvii. 141-143; one plate). 
Asclepias Sstenophylla and Acerates auriculata—The Identity of. 
J. M. Holzinger. (Bot. Gaz. xvii. 160). 
A supplementary note in which Mr. Holzinger corrects his 
mistake of taking up the name Asclepias auriculata for ~m 
Species, there being a previously published A. occ ; 
But is it not more an Acerates than an Asclepias? . 
Ascyrum Crux-Andree. C. $, Sargent. (Gard. & For. v. 250 
f. 49). 
