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connection with Taxoditim distichtim^ and a characteristic view 



of a swamp In Southern Indiana. 



December. — A mild. (Garden and Forest, iii. 1 1). 



Several contributions under this heading announce the flow- 

 ering of plants out of season, from many widely separated sec- 

 tions of the country. Similar communications appear in the fol- 

 lowing issue, and finally the editors are obliged to say : " We 

 have received many letters, for which we have no further space, 

 from correspondents who give lists of flowers blooming out 

 of their season. But with bluets {Honstoiia ca^ruled) flowering 

 by New England roadsides, Anemone blanda opening in the su- 

 burban gardens of this city, and dandelions starring the turf 

 everywhere the day after New Years, it is safe to pronounce this 

 an exceptional winter.*' 

 Economic Fungi. — Announcement and Conte?its of Fascicle. A. 



B. Seymour and F. S. Earle. (Cambridge, Mass., January 



I, 1890). 



The announcement is made that a series of fascicles of fungi 

 of economic importance are to be prepared, to illustrate the dis- 

 eases of noxious and useful plants. Each fascicle is to be given 

 a distinctive character, and will be prepared either loose or in 

 book form. Fascicle I, containing 50 species, is now ready 

 for distribution, at $3.00 or $3.50, according to method of pre- 

 paration. 

 Enphorbiaccons Plants collected by Mr. T. S. Brandegee in 1889 



on the mainland of Lower California and the adjacent islands 



of Magdalena a?id Santa Barbara. C. F. Millspaugh. (Proc. 



Cal. Acad. Sci. (II), ii. 217-230; reprint, issued December 17, 



1889). 



In this " Contribution to North American Euphorbiaceae, I," 



Dr. Millspaugh enumerates 41 species and varieties, of which the 

 following are described as new : PhyllantJins Brandegei ; P. cil- 

 iatO'glandulosiiS ; Croton Magdalena^ ; Argythamnia Brande- 

 gei; A. serrata^ van MagdalencE ; A. sericophylla, var. ver- 

 riicosemina ; AcalypJia Comnndiiana ; Bernardia viridis ; Eu- 

 phorbia Ptirisimana ; E. Brandegei ; E. pcdiculifera, var. minor ; 

 E. conjuncta ; E. involuta ; E. gcminiloba ; E. Comiinduana ; 



E. heterophylla^ var. eriocarpa. There are also critical notes on 



