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Side." Eleocharis obhisa, Schultes, is antedated by E. ovata. 

 ^cirpus poly phyUus,Vdh\, /is referred to 5. atrovirens,yin\\\, d. 

 reduction which we cannot approve, for these are certainly very 

 distinct; if they could be regarded as con-specific, Vahl's 

 name is much the older. In Carex several new varieties, and 

 C. albata are given by Prof L. H. Bailey. Scbpits riparms, 

 Spreng., is probably 5. cernmts, Vahl., which leaves S. riparins, 

 Presl, to replace S. Tatora, The question oi Ory:^opsis cuspidata, 

 Scnb., brought up at Cleveland, is added to by referring it to O, 

 cuspidata^ Benth,, Journ. Linn. Soc, xix., 82, but an inspection 

 of that page does not reveal the name. Of course it ought to be 

 O. membranacea. Dr. Vascy contributes several new varieties 

 01 grasses, and Mr, Macoun names two species of Deyeuxia 

 D* Columbiana and Z?. borealiSy the latter of which he says 

 IS the same as Dr. Vasey's D. Vancoicverensis* with whose 

 permission he changes the older name to D. borealis — and Ely- 

 wus Cohmibia7ia. This g^reat work of Mr. Macoun and his col- 

 leagues must give a decided impetus to the study of natural sci- 

 ence m the Dominion. We need a similar catalogue for the 

 United States. Why cannot our. Government botanists give us 

 such a publication, based on a rational system of nomenclature ? 



N. L. B. 



Catalogue of the Flora of Vermont, — George H. Perkins. (Large 

 8vo, pp. 74^ Burlington, 1888; from the loth Report of 

 the State Board of Agriculture.) 



Local catalogues have been issued in quick succession during 

 the present autumn, and they indicate a very satisfactory state of 

 activity among our systematic botanists. The present one is in 

 ^ measure a revision of the author's previous essay in the same 

 field in 1882. It includes Anthophyta and Pteridophyta, 1,360 

 species and varieties in all. The Gymnospermse are placed in 

 their proper position at the end of the Anthophyta. Localities 

 for the rarer species are given. 



Ceanothiis — Synoptical List of North American Species. Wm. 

 Trelease. (Proc. Cahf Acad. Sci., 2d Series, i., 106-118, re- 

 printed.) 



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