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Native Shnibs of California — IV. E. L. Greene. (Garden and 



Forest, iii. 378, 379). 



Interesting memoranda upon four species of Lavatcra arc 

 given under this heading, the first one of which, (Z. assurgcnii- 



fl^ 



Of the other 



three each one inhabits an island of its own off the coast of Lower 



Cahfornia. Z. vcnosa is confined to the ishmd of San Benito, Z. 



iusiilaris to Coronado Island and L. occidcutalis to Guadalupe. 



Notes on North American Trees, — XX, C. S. Sargent. (Gar- 

 den and Forest, iii. 355-356). 

 Dcscrij)tion of the wood of the following species are given : 



Terviinalia Buceras, Qnereus toincntclla, Cnpressus MaeNabiana, 

 Picea Breiveriaua and Larix Lyallii. 



Osservazioni snlla Mina lobata. G. V.. Mattei. (Nucvo Giorn. 



Bot. Ttal. xxii. 290). 

 Pitcher Plants, Sophie B. Ilerrick. (The Great Divide, iii. 74, 



75). 



The editors of the '* Great Divide'* arc evidently not bota- 

 nists, or else they presume upon not having botanists on their list 

 of subscribers, otherwise this extraordinary article could certainly 

 not have appeared. The text is written in the usual style of a 

 popular treatise and contains but little information that is decep- 

 tive. In the illustrations, however, a Cephalotns is boldly called 

 Sarraeenia variolaris, a Nepenthes is labelled Darlingtonia Cali- 

 fornica^ and a Darlingtonia is named Sarraeenia purpurea. There 

 is also a figure <tf Utricnlaida which, as the name is suggested, 

 might be recognized for a member of that genus. 

 Plant Diseases — On the Nature of Certain. A. L. Kean. (Bot. 



Gaz. XV. 171-174). 

 Plant Notes, E, J. Hill. (Garden and Forest, iii. 370). 



Memoranda upon Ilyperictun Kalmianun and Lobelia Kalmii. 

 Raniularia on Cotton — A New. Geo. V. Atkinson. (Bot. Gaz. 

 XV. 166-168, illustrated), 

 Ramtilaria areola is described and fitrured as new. 



Schnbertia grandiflora, Mart, and Zucc, S. W. (Garden and 

 Forest, iii. 368, fig. 48). 



Teeoma radieans. W. Goldring. (Garden, xxxviii. 51, illus- 

 trated). 



