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followed by them. The first twenty-three pages are reprinted 

 from the generic key published in 1886 with the addition of 

 Eiicladium and a few corrections. The keys to the species in- 

 clude also such recent additions as are well authenticated by ex- 

 siccatseor lay descriptions and figures with foot-note references. 



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The following corrections may be noted : Page 65, as a foot-note 

 to Hookeria Sullivanti, it should be stated that Mueller considers 

 this a synonym of Pterigophyllnm lucens. Hypmim occidentale 

 is omitted also, and we learn from Dr. Watson that Hall's speci- 



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E. G. B. 



Astragalus— A handsome. C. C. Parry. (West Am. Sci. vii. 9, 



10). 



A new variety is proposed, provisionally, from red-flowered 



specimens collected on the western borders of the Colorado 



Desert, to be known as Astragalus Purshii, Dougl. var. coccineiis. 



Botanical Generic Names Identical or too Nearly Alike. H. W. 



Harkness. (Zoe, i. 84, 85). 



Nine identical and thirteen similar comparisons are made. 

 From the list it appears that our friends, the mycologists, are 

 mostly responsible for this duplication of names. 

 Carex rigida, Good, and its Varieties. L. H. Bailey. (Journ. 



Bot. xxviii. 17 1- 173). 



Professor Bailey takes up this older name for C. vulgaris, 

 Fr.,and refers to it a large number of varieties, those of Ameri- 

 can distribution being var. Bigelovii, Tuckm., var. Goodenovii, 



ifc 



Central Nebraska— The Flora of. H.J.Webber. (Am. Nat. 



xxiii. 633-635; xxiv. 77-']'^). 



An account of the botanical features of a trip to the valley of 



the Dismal River. 



Closterium—A Note on. A. C. Stokes. (Microscope, x. 168- 



171). 



Groups — 0)1 the Carpolog. 



Development of the. Wm. C. Sturgis. (Proc. Am. Acad. 

 Arts and Sciences, xxv. 15-52, Plates T-VHI. Reprinted). 

 This is another of this year's contributions from the Crypto- 

 gamic Laboratory of Harvard University, of which Prof. Farlow 



