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are American species described as new, the latter a new genus. 
Our Native Orchids. Francis Wilson. (Am. Gard. xiii. 518). 
With illustrations of Goodyera pubescens and Corallorhiza 
multiflora. 
Phyllosiphon, Kuhn—Neue Arten der Gattung. G. Lagerheim. 
(Nuova Notarisia, iii. 120-124). 
Descriptions and illustrations of three new species from 
Ecuador. 
Pink and Yellow Pond Lilies. W.W. Bailey. (Bot. Gaz. xvii. 
229). | 
Record of a pale-yellow form of Castalia odorata from Cape 
Cod, where the pink form is abundant. Prof. Bailey notes also, 
the occurrence of Lotus corniculatus at Providence. 
Recent Work in Systematic Hepaticology. WL. M. Underwood. 
(Bot. Gaz. xvii. 218 220). 
Relation of Certain Fall to Spring Blossoming Plants.—II. A. 
F. Foerste. (Bot. Gaz. xvii. 223-245). 
Rhus—Notes on the Genus. T. J. W. Burgess. (Journ. and 
Proc. Hamilton Assoc. 1891-92, 119-130). 
Root-Pressure—An Apparatus for Determining the Periodicity 
of. M.B. Thomas. (Bot. Gaz. xvii. 212-214; one plate). 
Salicornia mucronata. (Meehan’s Month. ii. 129; with colored 
plate). 
The author of this note points out the erroneous use of the 
common name “ Samphire” for S. mucronata, the true Samphire 
being an umbelliferous plant, Crithmum maritimum, extensively 
used on the English coast for pickles. Salicornia herbacea, the 
species common on European shores, especially along the Medi- 
terranean, where during the last generation large quantities of it 
were dried and burned for its ashes, which then were used in the 
manufacture of glass and soap, was known as “ Glass-wort, 2 . 
name which is also used for the American species. 
Sequoia gigantea—Discovery of a New Grove of. Wm. W. 
Price. (Zoé, iii. 132, 133). 
Note on a group of six trees in Placer Co., Cal., believed to 
be the most northern known. 
