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Sola, Benth., Perityle Fitchii, Torr., and Laphamia peninsularis, 
Greene, 
Californian Herb-lore—I. da M. Blochman (Erythea, i. 190, 191). 
Notes on Peresia microcephala and Trichostema lanatum. 
Carex flava, L. og Carex Géderi, Ehrh. O. Gelert (Bot. Tidssk. 
XViii, 271, 272). 
Contributions a la Flore du Paraguay—Piperacees. C. De Candolle 
(Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Genéve, xxxii. No. 2). 
Eight species of the genus Piper are enumerated, of which P. 
emerascens and P. fulvescens are new. Nine species of the genus 
Peperomia are described, one of which P. psilostachya, is new. 
Plates are given of the new species. 
Distribution of some Forest-trees in the Southern States—The. 
Chas, Mohr (Gard. and For. vi. 372). 
Notes on Hicoria myristiceformis, H. Pecan and Quercus Du- 
randi. 
Distribution of some Western Plants—On the.—I. Edw. L. Greene 
(Erythea, i. 181-184). 
Notes on species of Lepidium, Matricaria discoidea and Madia 
Sativa, 
Early scientific Expeditions to California—I, Willis L. Tension 
(Erythea, i. 185—190). 
Mr. Jepson has here given us a valuable and readable ac- 
count of the first scientific expedition which visited California— 
that of the French explorer, La Peyrouse, who touched at Mon- 
terey with two frigates in 1786, five years before the visit of the 
Spanish explorer, Malaspina, with whom came the botanists 
Henke and Nee. ; 
Lrythre2 Centaurium. C.J. S. Bethune (Ott. Nat. vii. 99). 
Record of its occurrence at Roach’s Point, Lake Simcoe, Ont. 
Evolution and Classification. Chas. E.. Bessey (Bot. Gaz. xviii. 
329-333). 
Abstract of Vice-Presidential address before the Section of 
Botany, A. A. A. S., Madison meeting, August, 1893. 
Examination of Glyptodendron, Claypole, and of other so-called 
Silurian Land Plants from Ohio. Aug. F. Foerste (Am. Geol. 
ee | es ee Ss oe ob VIL). 
An analysis of the — — Eatonense, ord tat : 
