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In ashort introduction the author states that although the 
fern flora of Quito had been previously collected both by Jameson 
and Spruce yet so rich is it in numbers and so extensive the still 
unexplored parts of Equador that he has been able to contribute 
many new species. In 1883 he published a work entitled “ Re- 
censio Cryptogamarum Quitensium,” and the present one is 
intended not so much as an enumeration of the new species as a 
text-book to encourage others to further search. Hence, be- 
sides the Latin descriptions, there is a Spanish one for each 
species. The plates are all drawn from specimens in his herbar- 
ium, and there are keys for all the genera. This is unquestionably 
a valuable contribution to the literature of the ferns and their 
allies as well as a work of considerable importance on the local 
flora. E. GB; 
Cycad—A New. T. H. McBride (Am. Geol. xii. Baie ig 
"xi.) 
An illustrated description of a new species Bennettites Daco- 
tensts, allied to B. Gibsonianus, Carr., found near Minnekahta, 5. 
Dakota, in rocks which are probably of Lower Cretaceous age. 
Cypripedium montanum. J. D. Hooker eee Bot. Mag. xlix. 
tab. 7319.) 
Does our Indegenous Flora give fidence of a recent change of 
climate? J, Vroom (Bull. Nat. Hist. Soc. New Brunswick, 
Vii. 72-74.) 
Echinocereus Salm Dyckianus. K. Schumann (Monatsch. Kakteen- 
kunde, iii. 127, illustrated.) 
Embryo-sac in Acer rubrum—Development of the. David M. 
Mottier (Bot. Gaz. xviii. 375-378, one plate.) 
Ferns—Synoptical List. G. S. Jenman (Bull. Bot. Depart. 
Jamaica, Nos. 46-47, 1893.) ; 
Species of the genus Asplenium are described. 
Flora Brasiliensis—Fasciculus cxiti. Sapindacce 1. 1. Radlkofer 
_ (Folio, pp. 225-356, tab. 58-80.) 
This part is entirely eccupied with the the treatment of the 
genus Seyjania, of which 81 Brazilian species are recognized, most 
of them first made known by the author in his previous extensive — 
contributions to the literature of this pee eS 
