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curing the cordial co-operation of students of all kinds of plants, 

 and the results of their investigations have caused the present 

 work to become the most complete enumeration of plants of any 

 region of as great area in the world. In fact, no such systematic 

 study of a flora has been hitherto attempted." H. H. R, 



Check List of Plants, Compiled for the Vicinity of Baltimore. 



Basil Sellers. (Pamph. 12 mo. pp. 72, Baltimore, 1888). 



An enumeration of 1,609 species and varieties of Anthophy- 

 ta and Pteridophyta reported from and collected within an area 

 twenty- five miles square, having the City Hall of Baltimore for 

 its center. It is certainly an excellent showing for such a limited 

 area, and we trust that the good work will be continued and ar- 

 ranged according to modern botanical ideas. The following 



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closing words of the preface lead us to hope that this will be 

 done : *' Gray's Manual has been followed as closely as possible, 



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and chang;es in arrancrement and nomenclature, as well as notes. 



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etc:, have been reserved for the future." 



Chrysobalanaceen, — Bcitrlige zur Kenntniss der. — II. Karl 



Fritsch. (Ann. K. K. Naturhist. Hof Museum, v. 9-14). 



New species from Brazil and Guiana are described in the gen- 

 era Hirtclla, Coiiepia and Parinarium, 

 Daisy. — The European, F. H. Vaslit. (Zoe, 1. 48). 



The fact is noted that Bcllis percjinis has become thoroughly 

 established in one of the glens of Tamalpals, where it has lost its 

 *' double " characteristic, under which it is so commonly known 

 in cultivation here, and has reverted to its normal form. 

 Day Lily of the Desert. — The. C. R. Orcutt. (Pacif Rural 



Press, April 12, 1890). 

 A description of Hesperocallis nndulata. 

 Dendromecon. — Deformed Floivers of . T. S. Brandagee. (Zoe, 1. 



46-48, PI. i.) 



Teratological notes on Dendromecon rigidum, 



Echniocactns, — Some Notes on, C. R. Orcutt. (Garden and 



Forest, iii. 238). 

 Flora of the Knrile Lslands. K. Miyabe. (Mem. Bost. Soc. 



Nat. Hist., IV. 203-275. Plate XXII). 



The Kurile Islands extend in a nearly straight line from the 



Island of Yezo, Japan, to Kamtschatka, separating the Okhotsk 



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