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ceacee and Reticulariacee and records five new species with 
figures of them in a single plate. 
Phalloid—A New. A. P. Morgan (Jour. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. 
Hist. xv., Nos. 3 and 4). Phallogaster as a new genus is de- 
scribed and under it Phallogaster saccatus, Morgan, n. sp. A 
full page plate is given of the same. 
Phyllogaster saccatus—Note on. Roland Thaxter (Bot. Gaz. xviii. 
117-121, one plate). 
Revision dér Kleineren Ranunculaceen-Gattungen Myosurus, Traut- 
vetteria, Hamadryas, Glaucidium, Hydrastis, Eranthis, Coptis, 
Anemonopsis, Actea, Cimicifuga and Xanthorrhiza—E. Huth 
(Engler’s Bot. Jahrb. xvi. 278-324). 
For a critical review of this important paper, we would refer to 
Prof. Greene in Erythea, i. 70. 
Root Tubercles of Indigenous and exotic Legumes in Virgin Soil of 
Northwest. H.L. Bolley (Agric. Sci. February, 1893). 
Twenty-one native species of Leguminosz are named as bearing 
tubercles, the character of the soil, usually in Dakota, being given 
for each host. In like manner sixteen exotic species of the same 
order are listed as bearing the tubercles. Non-leguminous plants 
as Alnus, Shepherdia and Eleagnus are mentioned as bearing 
nodules upon their roots. 
Russian Thistle and other Troublesome Weeds in the Wheat Region 
of Minnesota and South Dakota. L. H. Dewey (U.S. Dept. 
Agric., Farmer’s Bulletin No. 10 pp. 16, two plates). 
The “ Russian Thistle” or “Russian Cactus” is Sadsola Kali, 
L., var. Zragus, D.C., closely related to the saltwort of the sea- 
beaches, and thus neither a thistle nor a cactus. It has long been 
a pernicious weed in the wheat regions of Russia and became in- 
troduced into those of our Northwest about fifteen years ago. 
It has now spread over some 30,000 square miles and is the 
cause of much financial loss and endless trouble. 
Salix balsamifera, Edward L. Rand (Garden and Forest, vi. 105). 
Schneeflora des Pichincha. Ein Beitrag'sur Kenntniss der Nivalen 
__ Algen und Pilze. G. de Lagerheim (Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Gesell. 
X. 517-5 34, one plate). | 
