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gens, (this name altered to 5. Forreri, 1. c, p. 162, as the former 

 was already used by Dr. Watson for an Oregonian species); 

 Hypcriaim parvtihim ; Ramincuhis Forreri ; Valeriana rhom- 

 hoidea; Achcetogeron Forreri; Geniianasuperha ; Lithospermum 

 tubiilijlorum ; Verbena suhuligera ; Hedeoma jiictind'a ; Salvia 

 Forreri ; Stachys vennlosa ; Cedronella coccinea ; Zebri7ia (.^) 

 pumila and Calochortus vennstulus. Salvia aliena is character- 

 ized from specimens in Herb. CaL Acad., collected on Maria 

 Madre Island, 

 Parafine-imheddiiig method in botany — The application of, — J- 



W. Moll. (Bot. Gaz., xiii., p. 5.) 

 Peppers — Notes on — Capsicum. — E. Lewis Sturtevant. (Agric. 



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Sci., ii., pp. I -4.) 



The writer cultivated during 1887, fifteen sorts from 

 Brazil, fifteen from Mexico, one from Africa and twenty-five 

 varieties from seedsmen, besides keeping notes on 49 others 

 grown in previous years. Observations are recorded on the 

 variations in color, shape, position of fruit and rapidity of drying 

 when mature, though the author defers "till a later period the 

 consideration of specific relations within the genus" concluding 

 that the ''number of species accepted by botanists will be few.' 

 Potauiogeton fliiitans. Roth. — G. Tiselius. (Nordstedt's Botan- 



iska Notiser, 1887, pp. 260 264.) 



"American specimens of P. lonchites^ Tuckerm.,show also that 

 they are nothing else than P.Jluitans, Roth., an opinion shared 

 by the Rev. Thos. Morong, who has occupied himself a good 

 deal with the family in question and is well acquainted with them. 

 P. lonchites, Tuckerm., must accordingly be received as synony- 

 mous with /".t/z/zV^//^, Roth." Dr. TiseUus concludes also that 

 P. Illinoensis, Morong, is only a form of P. 7iatans, 



Seeds and how they travel— l^yxow D, Halsted. (Chatauquan, 

 viii, p. 275.) 



Taphrina, — Notes on the 6^^;z;^.y.— Benjamin L. Robinson. (An- 

 nals of Bot, L, pp. 161-176, reprinted). ■ 



Thomas Bridges, Botanist.—^. E. C. Stearns. (West American 



Sci., iii., pp. 223-227.) ) 



Tumble-weeds again.— Z. E. Bessey. (Amer. Nat,, xxii., p. ^^) 



This time it is Corispermum hyssopifolitim, L. ^ 



