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2. “On the Altitudinal Distribution of Appalachian Ferns,” by 
Mr. John K. Small. The paper was illustrated by specimens and 
a map, and will be published in the December number of the 
BULLETIN. 
Index to Recent Literature Relating to American Botany. 
Arthrophycus—Remarks on the Genus. Jos. F. James: (Journ. Cin. 
_ Soc. Nat. Hist. xvi. 82-86). 
This paper was presented before Sec. E. of the A. A. A. S. at 
the Madison meeting, and was noted i in the BULLETIN for Septem- 
ber, 1893. 
Asplenicas—Observaciones sobre algunos Helechos de la Tribu de las. 
Jose N. Rovirosa. (Naturaleza, ii. 179, illustrated). 
Botanical Report. Brittain and Coxe. (Bull. Nat. Hist. Soc. New 
Brunswick, viii. 119). 
Contains a list of rare plants found on a trip down the Resti- 
gouche, in July, 1888. 
Cereus Peruvianus—Die Blithe von. K. Schumann on ape 
Kakteenkunde, iii. 123). 
Composite—Achenial Hairs of. Mary A. Nichols (Bot Gaz. xviii. 
378-383; one plate). 
Cretaceous Floras in Canada and the United States, and on some 
_ new Plants of this Pertod—On the Correlation of early. J.W. 
Dawson (Trans. Roy. Soc. Canada, x. Sec. iv. 79-93, figs. 
I-16. 
- The author begins with a review of previous work on the Cre- 
taceous plants of British America and their correlation with such 
as had been found in the United States and Greenland. 
The plants which are described were collected in the Cascade 
Coal Basin of the Rocky Mountains, and are all referred to the 
Kootanie formation. Angiopteridium Canmorense and Pinus an- 
thraciticus are described and figured as new. A. H. 
Cryptogame Vasculares Quitenses adiectis speciebus in aliis provinens 
ditionis Ecuadorensis hactenus detectis. Auctore Aloisio Sodiro 
S. J. (8vo, Quiti, Typis universitatis, 1893, pp. 656, with © 
index and 7 plates.) 
