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Professor Greene reviews the history of these shrubs, discus- 

 ses their relationship to the Asiatic species, from which he con- 

 cludes they are not to be generically separated, shows that the 



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and gives us valuable notes on the species, which stand as follows: 

 (i) A^. opulifolia (L,), S. Wats.; (2) N. capitafa (Pursh), Greene, 

 which is N. opulifolia var. uiollis of the California botany ; (3) 

 TV. nionogyna (Torr.), Greene., the N. Torreyi, S. Wats., and 

 whose early name we arc glad to see restored, and (4) N. malva- 

 cea, n.sp. from northern Idaho, a remarkable species, differing 

 from the others mentioned from its non-inflated carpels. Besides 

 these, Prof. Greene suspects a fifth species in the plant of the 

 southern Alleghenies, which has not been much collected. 



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New York — Annual Report of the State Botanist, made to 



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1889. Chas. 



H. Peck. (From 42d Rep. Mus. Nat. Hist.; pamph. pp. 48; 



two plates, Albany, 1889). 



Mr. Peck reoorts on the work done in the 



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)rk done in the botanical depart- 

 Natural History during the year 

 previous to this date. 268 species were added to the herbarium, 

 of which 108 were new to It, among them Hieracium prcsaltum 

 from Lewis Co.; Pcntstemon la^vigatus from near Rome ; Phy- 

 salis Peruviana from Manor, L. I.; Quercus hcteropJiylla and 

 Q. Rudkini (rom Staten Island; Sparganium a fine (so called) 

 from the Adirondack Mts. Setaria verticillata and Apera 

 Spica-venti from Lansingburgli, and Equisctum littoralc 

 from Oneida Lake, and the rest fungi, of which the usual large 

 proportion (46 species this time) are described as new. Under 



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cea reported from Manor, L. I., a remarkable form of Solidago 

 nemoralis with white rays from Elizabethtown, Essex Co.; Corcop- 



rma, var. tcnuiloha from Eastport and Patchogue, L. 



obium pusillum from several localities In Chenango 



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County, found by Mr. Coville ; a new locality for Epipactis 



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variegation, and other Interesting Items. Mr. Peck gives also a 

 review of the New York species of Clitopilus, a genus of pileate. 



