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Ramularia and Cercospora — Additions to, — J, B. Ellis and B. M. 

 Everhart (Journ. My col., i v., pp. 1-7.) 

 Twenty-six new species characterized, with notes on others. 



Rhododeitdron punctattim. — Asa Gray. (Gard. Chron., ii., 1887; 

 also reprinted in Gard. Month., xxx., pp. 26, 27.) 



Thallophytes in Medicinal Solutions, — R. G. Eccles, M.D. (Journ. 

 N. Y. Micros. Soc, iv., pp. 19-28; five cuts.) 

 An interesting account of the development of various Fungi 

 and Bacteria in solutions used as medicines, such as Phosphoric 

 Acid, Muriate of Morphia, Sulpho-cyanide of Potassium. The 

 remarkable fact is recorded that some of these organisms still 

 evidenced vital action after being hermetically sealed in a cell for 

 over two years and three months! Observations and experi- 

 ments on the same and many additional fluids are described in 

 the Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburg, xi., pp. 

 312-318, with three plates, by Dr. James Gumming. 



'Umhellifer(E of E. United States — Notes on. — Development of the 



Umbellifer Fruit. — John M. Coulter and J. N. Rose. (Bot. 



Gazette, 1887 j a series of articles continued through the 



volume; nine plates.) 



As we suppose that all readers of the Bulletin have also 

 access to the Gazette, it has been our custom to note the papers 

 of the latter by title only, and we will content ourselves in this 

 case by recording only the changes in nomenclature made by 

 the authors of the one here reviewed from those used in recent 

 general systematic works, 



Archangelica hirsuta, T. & G., becomes Angelica hirsnta^ 

 Muhl. ; A. dentata^ Ch3.pm.,= A 7igelica dentata ; A, atropur- 

 purea. Ho ffm,y= Angelica atropurpurea, L., and A, Gmelini, DC., 

 Coeloplenruin Gmelini, Ledeb. Archeniora ternata, Nutt., 

 and A. rigida, DC., are referred to Tiedeniannia under the same 

 specific names. Hydrocotyle Cafibyi^ n. sp., is the H. u^nbellata^ 

 van (?) ambigua^ Gray, H. repanda^ Pers., is H, Asiatica, L. ; 

 Thaspitmt is divided, 7! trifoliatnm^ Gray, becoming T. aure- 

 um^ Nutt., var. irifoliatti^n ; and the var. atropnrpurenm also 

 placed as a variety of aureum\ T. barbinode, Nutt, var. angus- 



tifolium, n. var. has narrower and more sharply cut leaflets, and 



