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pha Virginica, form» intermedia, Brachyelytrum aristosum, var. 
glabratnm, Vasey; Polypodium vulgare, forma biserratum ; 
Dicranodontium Virginicum, E. G. Britton; D. Millspaughit, ¥. 
G. Britton (figured), and Plagiochila Virginica, Evans (figured). 
The issuing of this catalogue will doubtless be a great stimu- 
lus to further botanical exploration in the State. Dr. Millspaugh 
has only been able to visit a small portion of the territory dur- 
ing the two years that he has had the work in hand, and the 
number of working botanists in the region is few. We have no 
doubt that further study will go far towards doubling the number 
of plants which he has been able to report. The whole country 
south of Pennsylvania still offers a most attractive ground for col- 
lectors, and we hope that it will not be long allowed to await 
careful search. N.: 1a: B. 
Gebirgsflora Alabama’s—Die. Carl Mohr (Pharm. Rund. x. 253). 
Grasses of the Pacific Slope. George Vasey (U.S. Depart. Agric. 
Bull. No 13, Washington, 1892). 
This fine volume is part I. of Dr. Vasey’s work on the grasses 
of the west coast and contains fifty descriptions and plates of 
species, many of which are there illustrated for the first time. 
The plates are up to the usual high standard of excellence and 
beauty for which the department is famed and the value of the 
book as a work of reference is greatly enhanced by the citation 
of the place of publication of the species described. The latter are 
Panicum Urvilleanum, Cenchrus Palmeri, Phalaris amethyst- 
ina, P. Lemmoni, Hierochloa macrophylla, Aristida Californica, 
Stipa coronata, S. eminens, S. Kingii, S. occidentalis, S. Parishit, 
S. setigera, S. speciosa, S. Stillmani, S. stricta, Oryzopsis exigua 
O. Webberi, Muhlenbergia calamagrostidea, M. Californica, M. 
debilis, M. dumosa, M. Parishii, Alopecurus alpinus, A. Stejne- 
gert, A. Caltfornicus, A. geniculatus, L. var. robustus, A. Howellit, 
A, Macounii, A. saccatus, Agrostis equivalvis, A densiflora, A. 
exarata, forma asperifolia, A. Hallii, A. humilis, A. tenuis, Cal- 
amagrostis Aleutica, C. Bolanderi, C Breweri, C. crassiglumis, 
C. Cusichit, C. densa, C. deschampsioides, C. Howellii, C. purpu- 
rascens, C. Tweedyi, Deschampsia cespitosa, var. arctica, Trise- 
tum Californicum, T. canescens, T. cernuum, Orcuttia Californica 
and O. Greenei. 
