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and the Development of the Sporangium of. C. L. Holts- 
man. (Bot. Gaz. xvii. 214-217; one plate). 
Check List of the Plants of Kansas. Bernard M. Smyth. (8vo. 
Pp. 34, Topeka, 1892). 
1764 species and varieties of flowering plants and 164 ferns 
and mosses are enumerated, and their distribution indicated. 
Cochlearia Groenlandica, L. Edward S. Marshall. (Journ. 
Bot. xxx. 225, 226, plate 326). 
Connecting Forms among Polyporoid Fungi. ULucien M. Under- 
wood. (Zoé, iii. 91-95). 
An argument in favor of uniting some of the now recognized 
genera of this order. 
Cypress Tree—A Large. (Meehan’s Month. ii. 135). 
With an illustration of John Bartram’s tree near Philadelphia. 
Desmids from New Hampshire—New. Wm. N. Hastings. 
(Amer. Month. Micros. Journ. xiii. 153-155, with plate). 
New species and varieties are described and figured in the 
genera Euastrum, Xanthidium, Staurastrum and Closterium. 
Desmids—How to Collect. Wm. N. Hastings. (The Micro- 
Scope xii. 147-150). 
Diamtoms of the Connecticut Shore, I. W. A. Terry. (Am. 
Micros. Journ. xiii. 185). 
Diatoms of the Florida Coast—Notes on the. C. Onderdonk. 
(The Microscope, xii. 78, 79). 
A new species, Actinoptychus pentagonalts, is noted. 
Dictionary of Botanical Terms, A. A. Crozier. 8vo. pp. 202. 
New York. Henry Holt & Co., 1892). 
A complete account of the terminology of modern chad 
has long been a great desideratum, and the work here age 
to the production of which Mr. Crozier has devoted a gre 
amount of research, will be welcomed by all botanical students. 
It covers the whole Aout of botany, including special terms used 
in agriculture and horticulture. In the progress of ar = 
Some terms formerly in use have become obselete, an si 4 
these are omitted, although all which have any present app 
