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By resolution of the Club, the subscription price of the nest volume of the BulLE^N 

 will be $2.00. 



A General Index to Vols. VII-XVI (1880-1889) is prepared, and will be Issued in a 

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Vol. XVII. 



AUGUST, 1890. 



No. 8 



BULLETIN 



OF THE 



ORREY Botanical Club, 



MONTHLY JOURNAL OF BOTANY. 



Edited by 



NATHANIEL LORD BRITTON, 



AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE CLUB. 



CONTENT 



PAGE. 



A Descriptive List of Species of the Genus 

 Heuchera : Wm, E, Wlieelock 191 



A Biographical Sketch of Dr. Geo. Thur- 

 ber: H. H. Rushy 30i 



An Enumeration of the Plants Collected 

 by Dr. Kusby in South America, 1885- 

 1886 -XIII: N.L,Britton 211 



1 A New Fern. (P.ate CIV) : B. C. Eaton., 215 



A New Fern for North America : Thos. C. 

 Porter 215 



Botanical Notes.— Contributions from 

 the National Herbarium 316 



IlEYiEwa OF Foreign Litekature.— On 



the Presence of Stipules in Lonicera 

 caerulea -. 217 



PAGE. 



Recent American Botanical Litera- 

 ture.— A Revision of the Genus Arau- 

 carioxylon o\ Kraus; The Causes of 

 Cypress Knees; Elements of Structural 

 and Systematic Botany for High Schools 

 and Elementary Col'ege Courses; An 

 Aquarium S udy of Fungi affecting . 

 Fishes; Heterosporoua Fern Allies of 

 the Pacific Coast and Mexico; The 

 False Shagbark Hickory {Ilicoria mi- 

 crocarpa); Insular Floras; Notes on 

 North American Trees; The Charac- 

 ters of Otacanthtia; PlantaB Glazlovi-' 

 an© ; Characteristic Sand-hill Flora of 

 Kansas; Some New Western Plants, * 

 and briefer notices 218 



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