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and Forestry. Conducted by C. S. Sargent (Vol. I, No. r, 

 12 pp., illustrated.) 



The first number fulfills its promise of being a most interest- 

 ing addition to Botanical journals. The plan of illustrating 

 unfigured American plants, alone, commends it as a long-felt 



want. This number contains a figure by C. E. Faxon of Iris 

 temiis, with description by Sereno Watson. Plant notes on a 

 half-hardy Mexican Begonia and the northern limit of the Dahlia, 



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ni C. G. Pringle, and some inquiries by W. Trelease as to 

 hybrids between Ceanothiis Americamis and western species are 

 mteresting. An editorial laments the loss of so valuable a friend 

 as Dr. Gray, and Prof Goodale reviews Gray's " Elements of 

 Botany'' and ''Kellerman's Kansas Forest Trees." 

 Mtsston Viticole en Amerigue. — Pierre Viala. (Rapport au Ministre 



de rAgricuIture, pamph., pp. 24, Montpellier, France, 1888.) 



After a visit of six months spent in various parts of New 

 Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, New York and Ohio, 

 the Professor of Viticulture in the National College of Agriculture 

 pronounces Vitis Berlandieri, V. cinerea and V. cordifolia as 

 being the most likely to succeed in the calcareous soil of southern 

 France as stock for grafting. 

 Mycologic Flora of the Miami Valley, Ohio.— A. P. Morgan. 



(Journ. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist., x., pp. 188-202; continued.) 

 New or Notetvorthy Sj>ecies.— 11— Edwaivd L. Greene. (Pittonia, 



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Trifolium scahrellum, Saxifraga Marshallii, Potentilla dau- 

 cifolia^ Cryptanthe Rattani, Allocarya hirta, Arabis piirpurascens, 

 Howell, Cardamine gentmata, Cedronella rmpestris and Triteleia 

 ^ejtdersoni, are new species ; and interesting notes are given on 

 Rhamjius rubra, Greene, Astragalus Magdalence, {A. candidis- 

 stntus, Watson, not Ledeb.), and Viscainoa geniculata, a new 

 genus founded on the Staphylea geniculata of Kellogg; Potentilla 

 Utahensis is the Ivcsia Utahensis, Watson. 

 ^^ew Species from Mexico.— Edward L. Greene. (Pittonia, !., 



PP- 153-159; advance sheets.) 



Professor Greene describes the following new plants collected 

 W Mr. A. Forrer, in i88i., on the Sierra Madre back of the city 

 of Durango: — Dalea cyanea ; Astragalus Dalea ; Scdmn diver- 



