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Our Native Ferns and their Allies. 1.M. Underwood (Fourth Edi- 
tion, revised, 1893). 
The author continues to improve this valuable little book, by 
bringing the list of publications under each chapter up to date, 
and incorporating the results of recent investigations and collec- 
tion, as well as revising the nomenclature to conform to the 
Rochester Code. It supplies in a handy and’ inexpensive form 
much valuable information, and besides its high scientific value is 
an interesting and attractive addition to the library. 
Papaveraceas—Los Alcaloides de las. Manuel M. Villada (Natur- 
aleza (Ser. ii.) ii. 212). . 
Perityle rotundifolia (Amauria). T.S. Brandegee (Zoé, iv. 210). 
_Phanerogamic Parasites—On the Structure of the Haustoria of Some. 
George J. Pierce (Ann. Bot. vii. 291, with plates). 
Phenogams and Vascular Cryptogams of Maine—A Contribution to 
the. F.L. Harvey and F. P. Briggs (Bull. Maine State Col- 
lege Lab. i. No 2). 
Phyllospadix—The Genus. William Russell Dudley (Wilder 
Quarter-Century Book, Ithaca, N. Y., 1893, reprint). 
A critical study of the genus, with illustrations of P. Zorreye 
Pinon Gathering among the Parramint Indians. B. H. Dutcher 
(Am. Anthrop. Oct. 1893). 
Describing the gathering of the nuts of Pinus monophylla. 
Pitcairnia floccosa. . Wittmack and C. E. Kirschoff (Gartenfl. 
xli. 352, with figures.) 
Plante Glazioviane nove. minus cognite. P. Taubert (Bot. Jahrb. 
Xvii. 502). 
New species from Brazil are described in the genera Saccog- 
lottis, Oxalis, Poecilandra, Drosera, Turnera, Klotzschia, Didymo- 
panax, Gaylussacia, Agarista, Buddleia, Coccoloba, Cryptocarya, 
Hufelandia, Acrodiclidium, Phebe, Ocotea, Pellea, Anemia, and 
thirteen species of fungi. A new genus in the Gentianacee, with 
one species, Senea caerulea, is also described. 
_ Plants Collected by the Garfield University Expedition of 1889—List 
ah Me Pec Carleton (Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. xii. 50). ve 
