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Index to Recent American Botanical Literature. 



Agave Shatvii.— The Most Northern Station of.—C. R. Orcuti 

 (West American Scientist, iv., 6S.) 



Asa Gray.- Personal Reminiscences of.—C. V. Riley. (Bot. 

 Gaz., xiii., 178-186.) 



Aspleninui rhizophorum. (Garden, xxxiv., 5 i ; illustrated.) 



Botanical Literature, Old and New.—Y.. L. Greene, (rittonia, 

 i., 176-183.) 



A series of papers designed to extend the knowledge con- 

 cerning a class of works not readily accessible to many botanist.s. 

 Catalogus Plantarum circa Cantabrlgiaui nascentlum. " In 

 tnis little Cambridge catalogue, which antedates Linnaeus' Species 

 ^tantarnm by ninety-three years, there occur, as in common use 

 in Ray s time, more than fifty binary plant-names which are 

 amiliar to us now, are always presumed to be of Linnaean 

 origin, and are always credited to Linnceus." A list of these 

 names, with their authorship, is given, and a plea, is made for the 

 justice of recording the pre-Linnasan authorship of our names in 

 cases where it is apparent. 



Botany of Cedros Island.— The.— E. L. Greene. (Pittonia, 1.. 

 194-208.) 



An historical sketch of the collections made on this "the 

 largest of the Mexican coast islands," with a pleasing account of 

 three days' botanizing by the writer. Eighty-two species are 

 reported as growing there, two of them, Sphceralcea fnlva and 

 J^rzogonum molle, being described as new, Isomeris arborea, 

 ^^utt, becomes Cleome Isomeris, Greene. 



Bryology of the Dominion of Canada. — Contributiojis to the. 

 Kindberg and Macoun. (Can. Rec. of Sci., iii., 15S 159.) 

 Carpentaria Calif ornica. (Garden, xxxiv., 75 ; illustrated.) 

 Catalogue of the Niagara Flora.— l)a.vid F. Day. (Pamph., 

 Svo., pp. 6j.) 



A list of the Anthophyta and Pteridophyta fonnd in the 

 vicinity of Niagara Falls, prepared at the request of the Commis- 

 sioners of the State Reservation. The area covered by this 

 catalogue is not confined to the State Reservation, however, but 

 includes considerable territory in western New York and Ontario. 



