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many other species. If this order serves as an index to the rest 

 of Mr. Brandecjee's collection, it must be wonderfully rich in 



novelties. 



N. L. B. 



Fittonia argyronetira. W. H. G. (Garden xxxvi, 527, illus- 

 trated). 



Flora of the Northern Shores of America. — Remarks on, with 

 Tabulated Observations made by Mr. F. F. Payne, on the De- 

 velopment of Plants at Cape Prince of Wales, Hudson Strait, 

 during 1886. Geo. Lawson. (Trans. Roy. Soc. Canada; 

 Sec. iv. 1887, reprinted). 



In the list of plants collected, numbering 66 species, will be 

 found many which are familiar to all who have collected in the 

 Northern United States and in our eastern mountain regions, 

 such as Vaccinium Vitis-Idcea, V. iiliginosum, Diapensia Lappon- 

 ica, Pyrola minor. Rhododendron Lapponiciun, Salix herbacea. 



ifraga oppositifoli 



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kenyapcploides, Eriophorum polystachyon and Cystopteris fragilis. 

 Floivers and Insects. III. Chas. Robertson. (Bot. Gaz., xlv, 297- 



304)- 



Notes are given upon the habits and effects of bird and insect 



visitors upon Nelnmbo lutea, Dentaria laciniata, Geranium mac- 

 idatnm, Impatiens aiirea, I. bifora, Staphylea trifolia and Cean- 

 othus Americanns. 



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Fungi of Economic Interest. — Notes on; Observed in Lancaster 

 County, Nebraska, during the summer of 1 889. Roscoe Pound. 

 (Bull. No. II, Agric. Exp. Sta. of Nebraska, 83-91). 

 The author states that " the popular idea, and one which one 

 constantly encounters in conversing with those who suffer from 

 the damage done by these fungi, namely, that they are more 

 abundant in wet seasons than in dry ones, has not been confirmed 

 by my observations." Three lists are given, one of injurious 

 fungi, numbering 64 species; one of those which are harmless so 

 far as observed, numbering 5 ; and one of beneficial fungi, num- 

 bering 6. Under the latter heading the intention is evidently to 

 describe the species which are beneficial to economic botany 



not to the hosts. Thus " Botrytis tenclla, Sacc, On " 



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