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A General Index to Vols. VII-XVI (1880-1889) is toeing prepared, and will probably be 



issued in 1890. 



Vol. XVII. 



MAY, 1890. 



No. 5. 



BULLETIN 



OF THE 



ToRREY Botanical Club 



> 



MONTHLY JOURNAL OF BOTANY. 



Edited by 



NATHANIEL LORD BRITTON, 



AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE CLUB, 



CONTENTS : 



PAGE. 



Studies in Cell-division (Plates CIL and 

 CIII-) : Douglas H, Campbell 113 



On the naming of '* Forma" in the New 

 Jersey Catalogue : N> L, Britton 131 



On Sitxbaumia indtmata, Bridel: Daniel 



a Eaton 126 



Kecent American Literatcrk. -Peculi- 

 arities in the Flora of the Santa Bar- 

 bara Islands; Fungous Diseases of the 

 Onion; New North American Fungi; 



FAQB. 



An Undescribed Hetichera from Mon- 

 tana; Reviews of the new edition of 

 Gray's Manual ; The Nomenclature of 

 Organic Life; New Western Plants; 

 The PalEBontologlc History of the genus 

 Platanus; New Plperacete from Costa 



■Rica; and briefernotices 128 



Proceedings of the Club, (including Re- 

 port of the Field Committee for the 

 year 1889) 136 



MISSOUKl 



BOTANICAL. 



GARDEN. 



NEW YORK. 



Press of Holt Brothers, 17-27 Vandewater Street. 



