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mer. Saprolegnia ferox and Devcea are both figured. In the 

 latter genus is described and figured a \\q.\n species, D, infundibus^ 

 found upon Hippocamp7ts in captivity. 

 Heterosporoiis Fern Allies of the Pacific Coast and Mexico. Luclcn 



M. Underwood. (Zoe, i. 97-101). 



An enumeration with critical notes and citations of known 

 locahties for the species of Tsoctes, Marsilia, Pilularia and 

 Azolla. L Pringlci is described as new from Guadahihaja, Mex. 

 (Pringle, No. 2,633); Azolla filicoides, Lam., recently collected 

 by Mn Ikandegee in San Mateo Co., Cal,, is new to the United 

 States flora. Prof Underwood is mistaken in his statement that 



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'* the last catalogue of IMcxican Pteridophytes was by Fournier 

 (1872).'* Mr. Hemslcy's Botany of the Biologia Centrali-Ameri- 

 cana enumerates those known up to 1886. Professor Under- 

 wood now lists just twice the number of hctcrosporous species 



there recorded. 



N. L. B. 



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Hickory — The False SJiagbark {Hicoria microcarpa). L. H. 



Bailey. (Amcr. Gard. xi. 386-389; eleven illustrations). 

 Professor Bailey contributes an exceedingly valuable essay on 



this interestincr tree and its relations to the Shag-bark and Pier- 

 nut Hickories. He contends, and to our mind establishes con- 

 clusively, that it is a well-marked species, its nearest ally be- 

 ing the Pig- nut, from which it may readily be distinguished, 

 however, by its thin-shelled, strongly beaked nut with dehiscent 

 huslv, sweet edible meat, and its shaggy bark, which splits off in 

 narrow strips. The observed range given for the tree is from 

 New York to Michigan and south to Delaware. With this paper 

 in hand botanists will doubtless be able to considerably extend 

 these hmits. It is quite as abundant as the Pig- nut in the vicin- 

 ity of New York City. N. L. B. 

 Jlex longipes. W. Trelease. (Gard. and For., iii. 344, fig. 46). 

 Insular Floras, Lorenzo G. Yates. (Reprint from Ninth Ann. 



Rept. State Mineralogist Calif pp. 11-20; no date). 



The exceedingly interesting flora of San Miguel, Santa Rosa, 

 Santa Cruz "and the Anacapas, to which attention has been 

 brouglit from time to time by our West Coast botanists, is here 

 catalogued, so fir as known, with localit}' and name of collector 

 after eacli species. 



