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Fungi, — A supplemental list of works on North American. — W. 

 G. Farlow. (Bibliog. Contrib , Library of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, No. 31, pp. 9.) 



17 titles of papers issued before 1887 — and thus addenda to 

 the previously published list — are given, while the mycologic lit- 

 erature of 1887 includes about 88. We note with regret that 

 Dr. Farlow does not propose to continue this valuable work. 

 Germination of Dodder- Cuscuta Gronovii, — Henrietta E. Heaker. 



(Amer. Nat, xxii., 254.) 

 Guatemala. — Undescribed plants from, — ///. — John Donnell 

 Smith. (Bot, Gazette, xiii., 74-77 ; one plate.) 

 The third installment of Captain Smith's novelties includes 

 Mimosa sesquijuga,Melampodium hrachyglossum, Ardisia Tuerck- 

 keimii^ Coha^a trifiora^ Beloperone Pansamalana^ Tltrysacan- 

 thus geminatuSy Scutellaria lutea, Dorstcnia Choconiana^ Wats., 

 var, integrifolia and Asplenium Vera-pax, the last represented 

 natural size on the accompanying plate. 

 Heuchera sanguinca in Mexico. — C G. Pringle. (Garden and 



Forest, i., 152.) 

 Hymenocallis humilis and H, Pahneri, — Sereno Watson. (Gar- 

 den and Forest, i., 114, fig. 23, 138, fig. 25.) 

 Illinois Grapes. — Notes on some, — J. Schneck. (Bot. Gaz., xiii., 

 95.) Notes on the habitat and occurrence of six species of 

 Vitis, 

 Lichens from the Easter Islands, — F. H. Knowlton, (Bot. Ga- 

 zette, xiii., 94-95.) 



Usnea barhata (L.), Fr, Physcia stellaris, L. and a species 

 of Parmelia, all determined by Mr. Willey. 



Microbes and Fungi. — H. F. Wegener. (Rocky Mountain Drug- 

 gist, i., 6^) 

 Our Native Ferns and their allies, with synoptical descriptions of 

 the American Pieridophyta North of Mexico. ByLucienM. 

 Underwood, Ph.D., Professor of Biology in Syracuse Uni- 

 versity. — ^Third edition, revised, 8vo., New York, Henry 

 Holt & Co., 1888. 



It is seven years since the first edition of this little book was 

 published, and six since the second. Meanwhile, the number of 

 true ferns known to inhabit the region covered has increased 









