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he took to Belgium. In 1862 he settled at the capital of 

 Chiapas, San Cristobal Las Casas, and made extensive collections 

 of insects, molluscs, orchids, agaves and bromeliads. Many of 

 the latter were transported hving to Europe and were described 

 by Lindley in the '' Flore des Serres et des Jardins del'Europe.'' 

 His collections are scattered through the museums and academies 

 of Belgium, England, France, Switzerland, Germany and Russia. 



E. G. B. 



Grasses of Mountain Meadows and Deer Parks. F. L. Scrib- 



nen (Bull. Agric. Exp. Station, Univ. of Tenn. ii. 59-67, 



illustrated. 



In addition to the material previously given by the author 

 under the title of *' The Grasses of Roan Mountain," tables of 

 analyses are here given of several of the grasses mentioned, and a 

 figure o{ Danthonia eonipressa. 

 Herbarinnt and Pla?it Descriptions Adapted to any Botany, E. 



T. Nelson (4to., Boston, Allyn & Bacon, 1S89, 75 cents). 



This is another aid for the ready determination of plants from 

 descriptions, designed to effect at the same time a preservation 

 of the specimen examined. Each plant is assigned four pages. 

 The first contains printed headings to be filled in by the pupil, 

 and the specimen is to be mounted on the third, the folded sheet 

 then serving for a species cover. These sheets are put up in 

 portfolios of fifty. 



Hypertrophicd Hairs on Anipelopsis, John A. Ryder. (Proc. 



Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil, Part II. 155, 1889). 



Prof Ryder called attention to certain enlarged hairs on the 

 leaves, petioles and tendrils of the Japanese species. 

 Leginninoscu novee vel minus eognitee Anstro- Americance, I. P. 



Taubert. (Flora, Ixxii. 421-430). 



Sellocharis is a new genus related to Lotus y and S. paradoxa 

 a single species. Cjvtalaria Urbaniana, Sesbania oligosperma^ 

 j^schynomene Riedliana, CheBtocalyx JlJieotica, C. Glaziovii^ 

 Cranocarpns Mezii, Galactia AscJiersoniana, Camptoscma penta- 

 pJiylhim^ Rhynchosia ScJienckii are newly described. All are 

 from Brazil. 



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NeillicB, — The North A^nerican^ Edward L. Greene. (Pittonia, 

 ii' 25-31. 



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