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Botanical Notes, 
Monarda Clinopodia, L.—After many examinations based 
upon the growing plant, I am constrained to believe that Monar- 
da Clinopodia, L., should be considered a variety of Monarda fis- 
tulosa, L. There is a marked difference in appearance between 
M. Clinopodia and typical WZ. fistulosa, but I think it occasioned 
“solely by place of growth. Typical JZ. fistulosa is a lover of sun- 
_ Shine, preferring open, dry soil, and when growing in woods I 
have invariably found it where sunshine had access, while I have 
always found Mf. Clinopodia in the immediate vicinity of shady 
springs, it preferring moisture and shade. I have found the lat- 
ter in locations of this kind, and a few rods distant away from the 
influence of shade would be its relative, Jf. fistulosa, in abun- 
dance. The difference in appearance is difficult to embody in lan- 
guage. It can be said that in J Clinopodia the stem is more 
sharply angled, leaves broader and thinner, throat of calyx less 
bearded and corolla lighter in color than JM. jistulosa, but is this 
sufficient for the limitation of a species? Such differences might 
justify varieties, but hardly species. It is well known that J. 
Jistulosa is extremely variable, and I have collected specimens 
that clearly bridge over any of the differences between it and M. 
Clinopodia, FRANK E. MCDONALD. 
Nomenclator Bryologicus. General Paris. (Rev. Bryol. xix., 
41.) An appeal is made to all bryologists to send the author 
reprints or copies of descriptions of all new species of mosses that 
have been published since the issue of the last edition of Schimp- 
ers Synopsis Muscorum, and Miiller’s. A list of works consulted 
is given, and all omissions will be gratefully acknowledged. It 
is proposed to follow the plan of Steudel’s Nomenclator, but on 
a more extensive scale, giving the synonymy more fully. Such 
@ work is greatly needed. E. G. B. 
Index to Recent Literature Relating to American Botany. 
Bahama Islands—A Winter Visit to the. H.W. Wilson. (Trans. 
Mass. Hort. Soc. part i. 210, 1891 ; illustrated). 
Bartram’s Oak. A. Commons. (Bot. Gaz. xvii. 125, 126). 
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