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The Herbarium of the late Dr. C. C. Parry has been purchased 
by the trustees of the lowa Agricultural College at Ames, Iowa, 
as we are informed by Professor L. H. Pammel of that institution. 
He reports it as containing some 16,000 specimens in excellent 
condition. 
 Leucampyx Newberryi A. Gray—In the Synoptical Flora the 
genus Leucampyx is placed among those genera of the Anthemide _ 
which have a chaffy receptacle. It is described (in the Key, Vol. 
1: Part 2, 78) as having a receptacle “ with oblong-lanceolate 
wholly scarious bracts subtending disk flowers and partly folded 
round the akenes.” This is not an invariable character of the 
genus, for in specimens of L. Newderryi (the only species) received 
from Dr. T. E. Wilcox and collected near Fort Huachuca, Af — : 
zona, the receptacle is in every case quite naked. Dr. Porter . 
writes me that “the chaffs on the receptacle are often few of 
wanting.” T. H. Kearney, JR a 
Reviews and Notes on Literature. 
Die Delphinium Arten der Vereinigten Staaten von Nord Amery — 
isa. E. Huth (Helios; reprint, pamphlet, pp. 15; Berlin, 1892). 
Dr. Huth was led to study our North American Delphiniums — 
through the examination of certain specimens collected by M. - 
Penard in Colorado, and deposited in the Boissier Herbarium ate) 
Geneva. He states that he found great insufficiency in the pub- 
lished descriptions of the species, which is quite true, there havin 
been no systematic treatment of the genus by an American author 
since the Torrey and Gray “Flora of North America” in 1838, De 
Gray’s paper of 1887* being a collection of notes with a key- bs 
Gray recognized the great difficulty of the systematic presentator 
of the genus, even with the very abundant material in the princi te 
American herbaria at his command, and one notes throughout ‘ 
paper an unwillingness to reach conclusions; he recognized 20 species ¢ 
and 5 varieties. Dr. Huth, working on the immensely less matet®” 
contained in the Berlin and Boissier herbaria, only recognizes 
species, one of which D. Penardi, he proposes as new, and 
* Botanical Gazette, 12: 49-54. 
