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Provisional Host- Index of the Fungi of the United States. Part 

 II, GamopetaliV — Apetahe. W. G. Farlow and A. R. Sey- 

 mour, (pp. 53-133, Canibridj^e, 1890). 

 Red Wood — The. (Gard. Cliron. viii, 302-304, figs. 60-63). 



A popular account of Sdjnoia sevipervirens^ with notes upon 

 its introduction and growth in Great Britain. 



Report of the Chief of the Seetion of Vegetable Pathology for the 

 Year 1889, U, S. Dept, AgHc, B. T. Galloway. (Pamph. 

 pp. 35, illustrated. Author's Kdition). 



In addition to an account of the economic work of the Divi- 

 sion there is a description, with colored plate, of a mignonette 

 disease : Cereospora Resedci^^ Fckl. 



Report of the Botaiiist on the Grasses and Forage Plants and the 

 Catalogue of Plants {of Nebraska), Charles E. Bessey and 

 Herbert J. Webber. (Pamph. 8vo. pp. 162. Lincoln, Neb., 

 1890. Extracted from the Report of the Nebraska State 

 Board of Agriculture for 1889). 



This valuable report contains papers by Mr. Webber on *' The 

 Grasses of Central Nebraska" and '*Thc Grasses of Northwestern 

 Nebraska; " on '' Grasses of Box Butte and Cheyenne Counties" 

 by Mr. J. G. Smith; by Mr. Webber on the several collections of 

 grasses exhibited at the State Fair held in 1889. The number of 

 wild species is given as 106 and the introduced species 22. There 

 are also papers on a variet)^ of agricultural topics connected with 



other forage plants. 



Mr. Webber contributes the ''Catalogue of the Flora of 

 Nebraska.'' This is arranged in the philosophical manner of be- 

 ginning with the lower organisms and ending with what the au- 



thor considers to be the most highly organized — in his case the 

 Composite — the arrangement of the Flowering Plants following 

 that of Luerssen. There are 1,890 species and varieties enumer- 

 ated, curiousl}' coincident with the date of publication. Of these^ 

 thirty- nine are Protophyta, ninety- five Zygophyta, twenty 

 Oophyta, 69 1 Caruophyta, forty-seven Bryophyta, seventeen 

 Pteridophyta and 981 Anthophyta. Tn nomenclature the oldest 

 specific name is quite consistently manitained and the original 

 author cited in parenthesis. Common names are given in detail 

 and localities cited for all the rarer plants. The list is an exceed- 



