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extended to the society, may do so by remitting $2 dues to the 



Wm. J. Stewart, Boston, Mass. The Secretary will 



-also be at the Committee Room, Fifth Avenue 

 evening, Aug. 20th, from 8 to 10 o'clock P.M. 



Mond 



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arrival of Dr. and Mrs. 



Britton at the Kew Gardens, and the commencement of their re- 



searches. 



A. H. and H. H. R. 



Index to Recent American Botanical Literature. 



Amelanchier oligocarpa, (Garden and Forest, i., 245, 246; fig- 



41) 



Araitcarias (Gard. Chrou., iii., 774, figs. 104, 105, 106.) 



Astragalus mollissimus. (Pharm. Rec, viii., 197, 198 ; illustrated.) 



Botany as it may be taught, — Byron D. Halsted. (Pop. Sci. 

 Men., xxxiii., 369-376.) 



CJiara. — Description of a neiv fossil Species of the Genus, — F. 

 H. Knowlton. (Bot Gaz., xiii., 156, 157 ; two cuts.) Chara 

 cojnpressa, described from sporostegia collected by Dr. White, 

 near Wales. Utah. The geological horizon is regarded as 



lower Tertiary. 



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Cherokee Rose. (Garden and Forest, i., 234; illustrated.) 



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Coniferous Tree Seeds. — Notes on the Longevity of. — Robert 

 Douglass. (Garden and Forest, i., 250.) 



adapted /^.— Aug. F. 



-fertili 



Foerste. (Bot. Gaz., xiii., 151- 156, one plate) A record 



of interesting observ^ations on fifteen native species. 

 Effect on Vegetation of the variable Rainfall of Northwestern 



Mexico. — E. Palmer. (Amer. Nat, xxii., 459-461.) 

 Epigaa repens. (Gard.. xxxiii., 531 ; illustrated.) 

 Eryngitims.—]o\\xi M. Coulter. (Garden and Forest, i., 206.) 

 Erythronimn HendersoniL (Gard. Chron., iii., 652, fig. 86.) 

 Ferns,— ^. H. Gower. (Garden, xxxlv., 9; illustrated.) Four 



species of Cahfornia Ferns are described, viz. : Pell^a bella, P> 



named is figured. 



idromedcefolia and P. ornithoptis. The first 



