341 
Difference between the common Salt-wort and the Russian Thistle. 
L. H. Dewey (Bot, Gaz. xviii. 275). 
A comparison of the characters of Salsola Kali, L. and the 
var. Tragus, D. C. 
Dioon pectinatum (Gard. Chron. xiii. 718, illustrated). 
Europaeischen Uredineen auf der Hochebene von Quito—Ueber das 
Vorkommen von. G. von Lagerheim (Bot. Centralbl. liv. 
324). 
Puccinia coronata and P. graminis are recorded as occurring 
in Ecuador and Fusarium uredinis is described as new. ° 
Fertilization—Notes on. Alice J. Merritt (Zoé, iii. 311, 312). 
Californica. 
flora of Denver, Colorado—A popular. Alice Eastwood (Zoé Pub. 
Co., San Francisco, no date). — 
This little Flora, or more properly cheeklist, enumerates, with 
Short notes, 484 Phaenogamous plants growing near Denver. 
ae fee 
344-349). 
Flowers and Insects—XT. Charles Robertson (Bot. Gaz. xviii. 
267-274). : es 
Notes on the insects observed visiting Stelaria media, Malva 
rotundifolia, Abutilon Avicenne, Hibiscus lasiocarpus, H. Trionum, 
Geranium Carolinianum, Oxalis violacea and Melilotus alba. 
Fungi—New Californian. J.B. Ellis and B. M. Everhart (Erythea, 
“ I45-I 47). 
Descriptions of new species in the genera Limerosporium, 
Metaspheria, Eutypella, Pseudovalsa, Phyllosticta and Cercospora. 
General Notes of a Trip through Southeastern Utah. Alice East- 
wood (Zoé, iii. 354-361). ere : 
Grasses of the Pacific Slope, including Alaska and the Adjacent 
Islands. Part II. Geo. Vasey (U. S. Dept. Agric:, Div. of 
Botany, Bull. No. 13, pp. 50, 50 plates). o— 
The second part of this beautifully illustrated work consists of 
plates and descriptions of the following grasses: Agropyrum di- 
vergens, Agrostis foliosa, A. microphylla, Arctagrostis latifolia, 
Airopis Lemmoni, Bromus Orcuttianus, B. Suksdorfii, Calamagrostis 
