448 Pteridophyten. — Floristik und Systematik der Phanerogamen. 



Marthe's Catalogue in 1801 and arrives at the following 

 conclusions: (1.) Nephrodium as a genus has been in existence 

 ior more than one hundred years. (2.) With the exception of 

 the brief period of four years intervening between Swartz's 

 reference of it to Aspidtum in 1806, and its restoration by 

 Robert Brown in 1810, it has been recognized in one form 

 or another from the time of its original publication, to the 

 present. (3.) Having been established on a special character 

 the subsequent addition of other characters could not destroy 

 the force of the original. (4.) Nephrodium rests primarily on 

 the character of the indusium. Moore. 



Pollard, Charles Loujs, A new Station for the gray poly- 

 pody. (The Plant World V. July 1902. p. 133—34.) 



Records Polypodium polypodioldes on rocks on the Mary- 

 land bank of the Potomac near Washington D. C. Moore. 



Balle, Em., Les menthes viroises. (Bull. Acad. intern. 

 Geogr. botan. XI. No. 146—147. 1902. p. 23—26.) 



Mentha rotundifolia L., M. aquaiica L., M. arvensis L., 

 M. piilegium L. representent les seuls types specifiques de 

 Mentha spontanes dans cette partie de la Normandie. 



M. Hardy (Montpellier). 



BARBOSA RODRIGUES, J., Contributions du Jardin botani- 

 que de Rio de Janeiro. Vol. I. No. 2. pet. in-4. 

 p. 23 — 53. 5 pl. lithogr. Rio de Janeiro 1901. 



C'est dans l'Uruguay, ä Montevideo et aux environs de 

 cette Ville, que l'auteur a recueilli la plupart des elements de ce 

 fascicule. II y modifie la clef analytique du genre Cocos, pub- 

 lice anterieurement par lui dans Palmae Mattogrossenses novae 

 et y classe de nouvelles especes. Trois d'entre elles sont decrites 

 ici pour la premiere fois. Le genre Cocos est subdivise en 

 2 sections et 9 sous-sections dont les noms sont tire's des noms 

 indigenes, tres appropries, dont les naturels se servent pour dis- 

 tinguer des groupes et des especes. Les 35 especes se grou- 

 pent de la maniere suivante: 



Cocos L. 

 Sect. I. Eu- Co cos Drude: 



subsect. I. Harykuri: C. capitata Martius, C. leio- 

 spatha B. Rodr., C. schizophylla Mart., C. Drudei 

 Beccar. 

 subsect. II. Yarivä: C. Romanzoffiana Cham. 

 Sect. II. Syagrus Martius: 



subsect. I. Akumä: C campestris Mart., C flexuosa 



Mart.; 

 subsect. II. Butiä: C. Yatay Mart., C eriospatha Mart., 

 C. odorata B. Rodr., C. pulposa B. Rodr., C. 

 stolonifera B. Rodr.; 



