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Sea from the Pacific Ocean. There are twenty-four larger islands 

 and numerous smaller ones. They belong to tlie Empire of 

 Japan. Mr. Miyabe enumerates 3 17 species, the largest orders 

 being Compositor with 30, Rosace^x with 23, Gramineae with 17, 

 lu'icaceac with 16, Caryophyllex and Liliacese each with 15. 

 About 30 per cent, of the Kurile Flora is circumboreal in distri- 

 bution ; of the remainder 50 per cent, is purely Asiatic, and 10 

 per cent. American. Two species are su})posed to be endemic — 

 Draba Jiirsuta^ Turcz. and Oxytropis puinilis, Lcdcb. A new 

 variety of Pnuuis apctala is described, l^ollowing Dr. Maxi- 

 mowicz, Ruhus strigosus^ Michx. is referred to a variety of R, 

 IdiTiis, L. The paper is a very valuable contribution to the lit- 

 erature of geographical botany. N. L. B. 

 Flora Ottaivacnsis, J. Fletcher. (Ottawa Nat, Alay, 1890). 



This part (pages 74-77) enumerates the species between Dirca 

 and Alntis. 

 Floivers and Insects — IV, Chas. Robertson. (Brot. Gaz. xv. 



79-84). 



Notes upon the Insects visiting Baptisia IcncantJia^ Psoralca 



Onobryc/iis, Aniorpha ca)icsccns^ Pcialostenion violaccus^ Tip/no- 



sia Virginiana^ and Dcsinodinni sp.^ are given. 



Fungi. — TJie Noincnclaturc of, H. W. Ilarhness. (Zoe, i. 



49-50). 

 Geo. W, Clinton, — An Address Coninicniorative of, David F. 



Day. (Pamph. 8vo. pp. 29, Buffalo, N. Y., 1890). 



This address was delivered before the Buffalo Historical So- 

 ciety, Mch. 24, 1890. Tn it may be found many memoranda of 

 the important part which Judge Clinton took in the development 

 of the botany of the State. 

 Glandular Pubescence in Aster patens, A. S. Hitchcock. (Bot. 



Gaz. XV. 97, 98, ilhistrated; also reprinted). 

 History of Garden Vegetables, — The, E. L. Sturtevant. (Am. 



Nat. xxiv. m-r:>^). 



Cabbage, {^Brassica sp.)y Pot Marigold, {Calendula officinalis). 

 Potato, {Solanum tuberosnni). Purslane, {Portulaca oleraced), 

 Quinoa, {jClienopodium quinod). Radish, {Raphanus), Rampion, 

 {Campanula rapnnculus). Rhubarb, {Rheum sp.) and Rocambole, 

 {Allium scrodoprasuni), are described. 



