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by Professor Greene, a large number of which are here referred 

 to mainland plants, the whole subject of the enumeration of the 

 flora having just been exhaustively treated by Dr. Yates. 

 Some of these reductions are probably desirable, as Professor 

 Greene has proposed them, but a considerable number at least 

 are very wide of the mark'. The reference, for example, of five 

 EschscJwltzias back to E. Californica indicates either that Mr. 

 Brandejjjee's botanical instinct is not very highly developed, or 

 else that personal dislike of Mr. Greene is warping his judgment. 

 The nomenclature of the list is, to say the least peculiar, Linnaeus 

 being in several cases credited with binomials which he never 



wrote. 



N. L. B. 



Floivers and Insects — V. Chas. Robertson. (Bot. Gaz., xv 



199-204), 



Insect visitors to the following plants are noted; Astragalus. 

 Mexicaniis, Strophostylcs angulosa^ AmpJiicarpcua Pitcheri, Cercts 

 Canadensis, Cassia Cliamwcrista and Cassia Marilandica. 

 Fungi of Western New York, Charles E. P^airman. (Proc. 



Rochester Acad Sci. 43-53 \ two plates. Also reprinted). 



A general account of the mycologic flora of the region, fol- 

 lowed by descriptions of new species in the following genera: 

 DidymospJi(£ria, Afithostoniella, Psettdovalsa, Vermicidaria, 

 Phonia^ Diplodia, Sphceropsis, Sporidesniium, Mncor and Camaro- 

 sporiiim. 

 Fungous Diseases of the Spinach — Some. Byron D. Halsted. 



(Bulk No. 70, N. J. Agric. Exp. Sta.) 



Peronospora effusa, Colletotrichum Spinaceee, Phyllosticta Che- 

 nopodi^ Entyloma Ellisii and Cladosporium i7tacroearpum^ are 

 figured and described. 

 Germination of Milkweed Pollen — Artificial. Byron D. Hal- 



sted. (Microscope, x, 229, 230, illustrated). 



Observations upon the pollen of Aceraies viridiflora. 



Hansteinia et Stenostephanus — Sur les Caracteres des, H. Bail- 

 Ion. (Bulk Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris, i. 855). 

 A discussion of the relations of these Mexican genera. 



Helianthernuni — A Neiv. W. H. Evans. (Bot. Gaz. xv, 2ll). 

 //". Canadense var. Walkeid is described from specimens col- 

 lected at Castle Rock, Colo., by Mrs. S. B, Walker, 



