Pteridophyten. — Florisük und Systematik der Phanerogamen. 359 



HILL, E. J., Pellaea atroperpurea an evergreen. (The Fern 



Bulletin. X. July 1902. p. 82.) 



Records the evergreen habit for this species in Illinois. 



Moore. 



WATKINS, W. G., Some ferns of the Sierra Nevada 



ränge. (The Fern Bulletin. X. July 1902. p. 68—70.) 



A record of 15 species collected through a wide ränge of climatic 

 conditions, but covering a limited area. Moore. 



Waters, C. E., An analytical key for the ferns of the 



Northeastern States, based on the stipes. (Johns 



Hopkins University Circulars. XXI. June 1902. p. 83—85.) 



A key arranged according to the number, shape and size of bundles 

 in the stipe for the identification of ferns when not obtained in fruit. 



Moore. 



Bean, W. J., Cotoneaster horizontalis. (Gardeners Chronicle. 



[3.] Vol. XXXII. 1902. p. 91. fig. 29.) 



C. horizontalis, a Chinese species, was introduced into cultivation in 

 Europe by the Abbe David. It is here shortly described and figured. 



H. H. W. Pearson. 



BRAINERD, Ezra , Two more rare plants from Lake 

 St. John, Quebec. (Rhodora. IV. p. 128—129. June 

 1902.) 



Carex Katahdinensis Fernald , and Juncus subtilis 

 E. Meyer. Trelease. 



Britten, James, Buchanan's Avan Plants. (Journal of 

 Botany. Vol. XL. 1902. p. 279—282.) 



This paper gives an account of the plants figured in 8 plates at 

 the end of Symes' „Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava" 

 (London 1800) which, with one exception, are in the Department of 

 Botany of the British Museum together with manuscript descriptions 

 and 53 large coloured drawings which include the 8 reproduced in 

 Symes' work. 



The author incidentally points out that the name Dendrobium 

 Calceolaria Hook. (Exot. Fl. 111. t. 184) must give place to D. moschatum 

 Sw. (in Schrader, Neues Journ. für die Botanik I. 94). 



H. H. W. Pearson. 



Britton, N. L., An un described species of Hydrophyllu m. 



(Torreya. II. Aug. 1902. p. 123.) 



Hydrophyllum patens, of the alliance of H. Virginicum, irom Minne- 

 sota. Trelease. 



Brown, N. E., Kalanchoe Kirkli fn. sp.]. (Gardeners Chronicle. 



[3.] Vol. XXXII. 1902. p. 110, 111.) 



The species here described — from a specimen flowered at Kew 

 was introduced from Africa in 1893 and has since been cultivated as 

 K. coccinea. H. H. W. Pearson. 



