362 Floristik und Systematik der Phanerogamen. 



l u Les roses et les rosiers. Histoire et culture des rosiers, 

 description des principales especes et varietes. 



2" Une orchidee montagnarde dans la foret de Ram- 

 bouillet. II s'agit du Goodyera repens R. Br., dont l'apparition dans 

 les plantations de Pins a dejä ete plusieurs fois signalee. 



3 J Station s anormales du Tetragonolobus siliquosus. 

 L'auteur considere comme une anomalie la presence de cette espece en 

 terrain sec, notamment aux environs de Montfort-1' Amaury. 



J. Oiiner. 



Bessey, C. E., The number and weight of cottonwood 

 seeds. (Science. N. S. XX. p. 118. July 22, 1904.) 



Observations made by d'AHemand on a tree of Populus deltoides 

 show that it bore about 32400 catkins, estimated to contain nearly 

 28 000000 seeds. Trelease. 



Deane, W., Preliminary lists of New England plant s. 

 XVII. (Rhodora. VI. p. 151 — 161. July 1904.) 



Comprising the families Polenwniaceae, Hydrophyllaccae, Lenti- 



bulariaceae, Orobanchaceae, Martyniaceae and Acanthaceae, and con- 



taining as new Gilla tricolor longipedicellaia Greenman and a very 



aberrant Hydrophyllnm sp. ? Trelease. 



Eastwood, Alice, A new Gilla. (Botanical Gazette. XXXVIII. 



p. 71—72. July 1904.) 



Güia sapphirina, irom the San Jacinta Mountains, Cali- 

 fornia, Trelease. 



Fernald, M. L, Some new species oiMexican and Nica- 

 ragua n Dlcoiyledons. (Proceedings of the American Aca- 

 demy of Arts and Sciences. XL. p. 52—57. July 18, 1904.) 



Comprises the fol'owing: Chlorophora mollis, Cordia Chiapensis, 

 Salvia Tehuacana, S. molina, S. fasciculata, 6\ pannosa, S. ancistrocarpha, 

 S. Townsendii, Acnistus Pringlei, Castilleja patriotica, C. pringlei, Utri- 

 cularla lobata, and Pectis erecta. Trelease. 



Fernald, M. L., The green alders of New England. 

 (Rhodora. VI. p. 162—163. July 1904.) 



In place of the commonly accredited Alnus viridis, the writer re- 

 cognizes Alnus crispa Pursh and A. mollis n. sp. Trelease. 



FORBES, F. B. and W. B. Hemsley, An Enumeration of all 

 the Plauts known irom China Proper, Formosa, 

 Hainan, Corea, the Luchu Archipelago, and the 

 Island of Hongkong, together with their Distri- 

 bution and Synonymy. (Journal of the Linnean Society. 

 Vol. XXXVI. 1904. "No. 254. p. 377—456.) 



This part contains the conclusion of the Gramineae by A. B. R e n d 1 e 

 and the commencement of an alphabetically arranged list of genera and 

 species, discovered in China since the publication of the various parts 

 of this enumeration (1886 to March 1904). 



The foliowing new species and varieties of Gramineae re described: 

 Anthoxanthum Hookeri Rendle (= Ataxia Hookeri Griseb.), Stipa (§ Lasi- 

 agrostis) Henryi Rendle n. sp., Sporolobus Hancei R. n. sp., S. japonicus 



