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as growing spontaneously within one hundred miles of New 

 York City.— Torr^y Botanical Club. (8vo., pp. xvi. + 9^) 

 New York, April 25th, 1888; price, $1.00.) 

 This catalogue has been prepared by a committee of the Club 

 to meet a demand for accurate information regarding the plants 



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of the vicinity of the city, and '' especially to provide a con- 

 venient check list by means of which to secure from the botanists 

 of the region a series of fresh and detailed reports as to the 

 plants of their respective localities." Maps showing the exact 

 limits of the district included are appended. Eentham and 

 Hooker's " Genera Plantarum " has been closely, but not invari- 

 ably, followed in the arrangement of orders and genera. A 

 special effort has been made to maintain for each plant enumerated 

 its earliest specific or varietal name, and the reasons for the 

 adoption of this principle are given. This has caused numerous 

 changes in nomenclature, but in all such cases the names 

 used in the last edition of Gray's Manual are all given as 

 synonyms and are thus readily traced. The list of ballast plants 

 is very long and doubtless nearly complete, being compiled from 

 the notes and herbaria of Judge Brown and Messrs. Martindale, 

 Burk and C. E. Smith. The Catalogue is a part of a long- 

 cherished plan of preparing a complete descriptive local flora. 



Prumis piimila in North Carolina. — E. R. Memmlngcr. (Bot. 

 Gazette, xiii., 95, 96.) 



Relation of Climate to Vegetation. — D. P. Penhallow. (Canad. 

 Rec. Science, iii., 107-124.) 



Tertiary Plants of California — List of, — J. G. Cooper. (7^^ 

 Ann. Rep. State Mineralogist, Cal., 1888, 300-308.) 



Ttibercles on Leguminous Roots. — W. G. Farlow. (Garden and 

 Forest, i., 135.) 



Umbellifera;— Notes on Western.— L — John M. Coulter and J. N. 

 Rose. (Bot. Gazette, xiii., 77-81.) 

 In turning their attention from the East American forms to 



West 



Those 



here characterized are Pencedamim Canbyi, P. SatidbergH, An- 

 gelica Llendersoni and Sanicnla Llozvellii, with notes on other 

 species and genera. 



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