291 



' LcHchtenbergia principis, Aiihalonium fissitratum, Euphorbia 

 meloformis, Rhipsalis salicornoides, Pereskia Bleo. 



Cactuses Under Culture. M. De Loup. (Am. Garden, xi. 470- 



471, illustrated). 



Contains figures of Ccrcus nycticaulis and Opuntia Ficus-In- 



dica. 



Calochortus Madrensis. J. G. Baker. (Gard. Chron. viii. 391, 

 fig. 78). 



Cauchalagua {Erythrca venusta). C. R. Orcutt. (West Amcr. 



Sci. vii. 45, 46). 



Chilenische Terticerpjlanzcn. H. I<:ngelhardt. (Abhand. Natur. 



Ges. Isis, 1890, 3-5). 



A list of Tertiary plants from Chili. 



Contributions to American Botany. XVII. Sereno Watson. 



(Proc. Amer. Acad, Arts and Sci. xxv. 124- 163. Reprinted). 



This includes : I — Miscellaneous notes upon North Amer- 

 ican plants, chiefly of the United States, with descriptions of new 

 species. Sisyrimbrium humifusum, Vahl, is referred to Arabis 

 under the same specific name. The following new species are 

 described: Arabis Hoivellii,{xo\\\ Ox&<gor\ and California ; Strep- 

 tanthus Lemmoni, S. barbatus, S. Arizonicus and 5. campestris 

 from California and Arizona, and a synopsis of the known species 

 of Streptanthus given ; Silene multincrvia and 5. Schockleyi from 

 California; Trifolium Catalina; from Santa Catalina Island; 

 Astragalus Forzvoodii from the Black Hills ; Vicia Thurberi from 



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the Rocky Mountains and V. Hassei from California; Eriogynia 



if or a from M 



discussion of the rela- 

 Max 



from Spircea, maintaining with that author that the Asiatic Neil- 

 lia is distinct from Physocarpa, and that " A^. capitata, Greene, 

 can in no way be separated from the ordinary P. opnlifolia. His 

 N. malvacca also, judging from the characters, appears to be a 

 common form of P. Torreyi ;" but Dr. Watson has not seen N. 

 malvacca ; if this view be correct, that the two genera are dis- 

 tinct, and we are inclined to consider it so, then, apparently, the 

 American shrubs must go to the genus Episcotorns, Raf , which 

 has priority over Physocarpa; Ereviiastrum Orcuttii, from Call- 



