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Index to Recent American Botanical Literature. 



Accenas. (Garden, xxxvli. 177, illustrated). A representation 

 o{ A, min'opJiylla is given. 



Black Rot of the Grape — The, Chas. R. Carpenter. (Trans, 

 Kans. Acad, Sci. xi. 14-17). 



Circulation of Sap — Notes on, W. R. Lighton. (Trans. Kans. 

 Acad. Sci. xi. 18-19). 



Clathrus columnatns — Poisonous action of W. G. Farlow. (Bot. 



Gaz. XV. 45-46). 



The poisonous qualities of several of the Phalloidea; have 

 been the subjects of discussion, in a popular way, on more than 

 one occasion. In this article the above fungus is stated to have 

 proved fatal to hogs in North Carolina. 



Cobra Plant — TJic. F. W. Burbridge. (Garden, xxxvii. 147, 



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illustrated). Includes a picture of Darlingtonia Californica, 

 Coreopsis — TJie Best Annual. (Garden, xxxvii. 202-203, pi. 74^ 

 and figs, in text). 



Under this lieading are described and figured a number of our 

 native species, among them C aristosa^ auricnlata, cardaniini- 



lanceolata and a colored plate of a dark 



N. 



folia, Dritnintondi and 



variety of tinctoria. 



Diatom Deposit from . 



Notes on the Fossil. C. L, Peticolas. (Microscop. Journ. xi. 



32, 33). A brief addition to the account published in the 

 BULT>ETIN, vol. xvi. No. 3. 



Diatoms in Boston Harbor, in September, 1889. — A search for. 



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Journ. xi. 35-37)- 



Darlingtonia Californica. (Gard. Chron. vii. 84, figs. 14, 15). 

 Ephedra. — Die Ai^tcn der Gattung. Otto Stapf. (Reprint, Vol. 

 Ivi. Denkschr. Math. Naturwiss. Classe, Kais. Akad. Wiss., 

 4 to, pp. 112, 5 plates, and map, Vienna, 1889). 

 The American species E, midtiflora, Torreyana, Californica^ 

 aspera, trifurca, Nevadensis, antisiphylitica,- Americana, gra- 

 cilis, Tweediana, triandra, oehreata, dumosa and frnstillata are 

 described and all but the latter two figured, so far as the inflores- 

 cence is concerned, E. niultiflora is described as new. 

 Eriogonum —Species of, (Gard. Chron. vii. 260, pp. 38, 39, 40). 





