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Review of Foreign Literature. 



Die Gattungoi dcr Ponaccoi, Emil Koclinc. (Wisscnschaft- 

 lichc Bcilage zum Prof^ramm dcs Falk-Rcalgymnasium zu Ber- 

 lin, Ostcrn, 1890, 4to, pp. 33, 2 plates.) 



This is a recast of the genera of the suborder Poniacea^, with 

 a review of the work accomplished by earlier writers on the 

 group, notably Decaisne, Lindlcy, Th. VVenzig and Focke. The 

 author recognizes twenty- three genera, as against the nine of 

 Benthani and Hooker, and most of the additional fourteen appear 

 to us based on a niinimuni of characters Of especial interest to 

 American botanists we note that two new species o^ Aniclancliier 



are described 



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which was distributed (erroneously the author says) as A. alni- 

 folia, var., and which it appears to be, and A. Pringlei, based on 

 Pringlc*s No. 259 from the Santa Eulalia Mts., Chihuahua, dis- 

 tributed as Cotoncastcr denticulata. N. L, B. 



Botanical NoteSi 



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Additions to IlIi)iois dlora. The following species found in 

 the vicinity of Peoria, 111. are not in Patterson's Catalogue of 

 Illinois plants: 



Sclcria verticillata^ Muhl. Found in a cold peat bog in the 

 Illinois river bottom in Woodford Co., two miles distant from 



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Peoria. Wh(Mi first noticed n\ the summer of 1887 it was fre- 

 quent at this station, but in 1888 the bog was brought under cul- 

 tivation, and since, though persistently searclied for, has not been 

 met with again. I believe this station to be farther west than 

 any previously reported. 



BroNiiis niolIiSy T. Noticed the past sunimcr in Tazenell Co., 

 on the grades of the Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw R. R. As this 

 road is an eastern one it is to be inferred that the species is an 

 immigrant from the east. 



GlnotJicra siniiata^ L. The past season I found a diminutive 



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Ave. and separating the upper and lower city. It covered a space 

 of haif an acre and was abundant. I determined it as QI. sinitatay 

 and this was verified by Walter Deane, of Cambridge, Mass., who 

 compared flowering and fruiting specimens I sent him, with spec- 



