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page of the Introduction is devoted to a list of the species and 



varieties which have been founded upon specimens first collected 



m Middlesex Co., of which there are fourteen noted. Credit to 



r all who have assisted in the work is carefully given, and great 



care has apparently been taken not to allow any unverified name 

 to be included. A description of the geology and physiography 

 of the county is also included in the Introduction. Anthophyta 

 number 1484; Pteridophyta, 60; Bryophyta, 156; Thallophyta, 

 361. The typography and paper leave little to be desired. Notes 

 in regard to species occur sparingly throughout, and their value 

 IS such that we wish there were more of them. This, in common 

 with many others lately published, essays to include the Bryo- 

 phyta and Thallophyta, and the lists are doubtless authentic so far 

 as they go and are of value for that reason. A quite extensive and 

 interesting introduced flora is that which has been credited to 

 wool-waste." Most of these plants that are not famihar and are 

 not described in American works are followed by the description 

 from foreign authors, or else reference is made to where such 

 descriptions may be found. — [We have just received a note from 

 Mi". F, S. Collins, requesting us to state that the name of Mr. I. 

 C. Martindale was inadvertently omitted in the preface when 

 mentioning the botanists who had aided in the work. Mn Mar- 



tindale's specialty was the adventive plants.] 



Flora Ottawaensis. (Ottawa Nat., ii., 61-64 and 77-80; con- 

 tinued.) The first part includes Menispermum to Cardamine 

 in part ; the second completes Cardamine and includes Lychnis. 

 Florida Keys, — The Flora of the, — A. H. Curtiss. (Garden and 



Forest, i., 279, 280.) 

 Forage Plants, — Dr. Geo. Vasey. (Report of the Botanist, U. S. 

 Dept. Ag., Rep. for 1887.) 



Economic notes on Eiichlcena luxnrians, Durieu, Eurotta 

 lanata, Moq., Opiintia Engelmanni, Salm., Onohrychis sativa. 

 Lam., Trifolium hybridum^ L., Z wcamatnm, L., and 71 medium^ 

 L. ; all figured except the latter. In this, as in the rest of the 

 ''^port, the citing of authorities seems to be the exception. 

 Forests of the United States. — The.— H, C. Putnam. (Garden 



and Forest, i., 297-298.) 

 Function of Many Fruits. — A^i Overlooked. — Chas. E. Bessey. 



