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but the variety is mainly founded upon the color of the flowers, 

 which are said* to have, when first gathered, the ** delicate 

 fragrance of the cultivated sweet violet, but in the course of an 

 hour or two this odor passes entirely away," E. E. STERNS. 



Index to Recent American Botanical Literature. 



Algues Magellaniques Nouvelles. — M. P. Hariot. (Journ. de Bot., 



L, pp. 55-59 and 72-74; illustrated.) 



Siphonocladjis^ Eciocarpus^ Sphacelaria^ Ceramium^ Callo- 

 phyllis and Hildebrafitia^ illustrated by six cuts in the text, are 

 figured and described from Orange Harbor and the Falkland Isles. 

 Aqiiilegia longissima, Gray, — Sereno Watson. (Garden and 



Forest, 1., p. 31, fig- 6.) 

 Azolla et Salvinia dans la Gironde. (Journ. de Bot., i., p. 29.) 



Two more of our water weeds are causing trouble among the 

 millers and death among the fishes in France. Instead o( Ana- 

 charts^ however, it is Salvinia naians and Azolla Carohntana 

 which have spread near Bordeaux so as to become a nuisance. 

 BcEria gracilis, Gray. (Gartenflora, xxxvi., p. 392; fig. 96,) 

 Calochortus Jlaviis, Schult, /!, and Milla hijlora, Cav, — C. G. 



Pringle. (Garden and Forest, i., p. 20.) 

 Cladoniees Magellaniques, — M. P. Hariot (Journ, de Bot, 1., 



pp. 282-286.) 



Twenty-two species of Cladoniay with two new ones and two 



varieties, are listed and described. 



Fer7is — Preparation and Mounting of, — J. "O. King. (The Micro- 

 scope, viii., pp. 78-81.) 

 A detailed account of the method of .^bunting microscope 



slides of pinnules used by one of the most successful manipulators. 



Florule des Isles Saint-Pierre et Miqiielon, — F. Bonnet. (Journ. 



de Bot, i., pp. 180-186, 219-221, 234-239, 249-253, 260-266.) 

 This is an interesting list of plants found in the last of the 



French possessions in North America, the islands of Saint-Pierre 



and Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundland. It is 



mainly a compilation from the collections of La Pylaie, Delamare 



and Beautemps-Beaupre. 



Geraniacece — A Study of North American. — William Trelease. 



*By Miss S. A. Trimble, of Waco, who collected the specimens. 



