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reviewed, transmitted to Kevv during the years 1880 and 1887, 

 seven parcels containing 525 nnmbcrs. 



(5) In 1887, a committee of the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, appointed for the purpose of exploring 

 the flora of the Bahamas, sent Baron Eggers out as collector, 



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and he obtained 314 species. These are at Kew, together with 

 a manuscript catalogue, and a duplicate set at South Kensington. 

 The report of this committee is published in the Proceedings of 

 the British Association, at the Bath meeting, 1888, and reprinted 

 as a 3 -page pamphlet, giving much valuable information. The 

 collection was named by Mr. Baker. 



(6) Mr. F. H. Herrick made a small collection in June, 1886, 

 on the island of Abaco, an account of which, with determinations 

 of the species by Prof D. C. Eaton and Mr. W. A. Setchell, is 

 printed in Johns Hopkins Univ. Circ. vi. 46, 47, 1886; speci- 

 mens of these are extant. 



(7) The collections of Prof Dolley, preserved at the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania. 



(8) Those of Dr. and Mrs. Northrop, a considerable portion 

 of which are already received. N. L. B. 



Rosa Sayi, L. H. B. (Am. Garden, xi. 362, PI. I.). 



Musis, Smiits^ Ergots and Rots, Byron D. Halstcd. (Pamph. 



8vo., pp. 21, illustrated). 



An address delivered before the N. J. Board of Agriculture, 

 Jan, 31, 1890. Phytophthora infcstaus and Claviceps purpurea 

 are figured, besides representations of Puccinia, Ustilago and 



Tilletia^ sp. 

 ■ Stamens of Solanaeece — Notes upon, Byron D. Halsted. (Bot. 



Gaz. XV. 103-106, PI. xi ; also reprinted). 

 Read before the Biological Section of the A. A. A. S., Toron- 



to meeting. 



Symphoricarpus occidentalis, * C. S. S. (Garden and Forest, iii, 



296, fig. 42). 

 The True Grasses, By Edward Hackel. Translated from Die Nat- 



urlichen Pflanzenfamilien. F. Lamson Scribner, and Effie A. 



Southworth. Copiously illustrated (New York, TTenry Holt & 



Co., 1S90. 8vo, pp. viii. -f 228. $1.50). 



In Engler and Prantl's Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilen are 



