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Dr. Thaxter has detected thirty species of this order addition- 
al to those recorded in his former paper, making in all forty-nine 
North American species. Ceratomyces, Corethromyces and Acan- 
thomyces are new genera, and many new species are described in 
Heimatomyces and Laboulbenia. 
Lilium Grayi. J. G. Baker. (Curt. Bot. Mag. tab. 7,234). 
A description of and note on the lily first gathered by Dr. 
Gray on Roan Mountain in 1840. 
List of Species of the Genera Scirpus and Rynchospora occurring 
in North America. N. L. Britton. (Trans. N. Y. Acad. 
Sci. xi. 74-93: Contrib. Herb. Col. Coll. No. 26). 
Thirty-six species of Scirpus are enumerated. S. Peckii from 
northern New York is described as distinct from its relatives, 
S. polyphyllus and S. sylvaticus ; S. microcarpus, Presl., is main- 
tained as a species; S. Mexicanus, Clarke, is S. eyperoides, Hem- 
sley (1885), not Sprengel (1825); S. Potosina, Clarke, is a new 
species from Mexico (Pringle 3,175); S. Hadlii and S. Smithic 
are maintained as species; S. -Americanus, Pers. (1805) ante- 
dates S. pungens, Vahl. (1806), and a var. longispicatus of it 
from Colorado and New Mexico is described as new; 5S. cylin- 
dricus (Torr.) antedates S. macranthus, Boeckl. (1858), S. 4pto- 
lepis, Chapm. (1860) and S. Candyz, A. Gray (1864); S. Calt- 
Sornicus (C. A. Meyer), antedates S. Tatora, Kunth. - 
Sixty species of Rynchospora are recognized. i. 7racyt is 
Ceratoschenus capitatus, Chapm., not R. capitata, R. & S.; and 
Several new varieties are described. 
Loco Weeds. Alice Eastwood. (Zoé, iii. 53-58). | 
Manual of the Phanerogams and Pteridophytes of Western Texas — 
Gamopetale. John M. Coulter. (Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 
it., Part 2). 
This is the second part of Professor Coulter's useful flora of 
western Texas. Perityle Vasey? is figured. The following correc- 
tions are made in his previously published account of Mr. Neal- 
ley’s collections: Aplopappus Texanus, Coulter, proves to be 
Haxloesthes Greggit, A. Gray, and Viguiera longipes, Coulter, is 
Zexmenia hispida, A. Gray, which is also figured ; iad Neal- 
levi Coulter is Antirrhinum maurandiotdes, A. Gray, and J. Tex- 
