540 Floristik, Geographie, Sj^^stematik etc. 



Loesener, Th., Plantae Selerianae. Suite. (Bull. Herb. Boiss. T. VI. 

 p. 831—871. 1906.) 



Ces pages renferment les döterminations par differents specia- 

 listes d'un grand nombre de plantes appartenant ä differentes familles 

 des Phanerogames et recueillies par Seier au Mexique et au 

 Guatemala. Nous devons nous borner ici ä indiquer les nouveautes 

 qui y sont d^crites. Ce sont: 



1) Un genre nouveau des Ascld-piadees: Lahidostelma Schltz., 

 voisin de Dictyanthus. 



2) Especes nouvelles: Rhiis Oaxacana Loes., Rh. vestita (Radlk.) 

 Loes. , Metastehna lanceolatiim Schltz., M. Selevianuni id., Lahido- 

 stebna guatenialense id., Senecio {Palmatinervü) cristobalensis Green- 

 man, 5. hederoides id. A. de Candoile. 



Macfarlane, J. M,, Observations on S'rtr/'rtc^;//«. (Journal ofBotany 

 Vol. XLV. W. 529. p. 1-7. January 1907.) 



The paper is divided into four sections. The flrst deals with the 

 history of the generic name. In the second Sarracenia Catesbaei 

 Elliott (the type specimen of which in the Charleston Museum was 

 examined) is stated to be a natural hybrid between 5. ßava and 

 5. purpurea^ the 5. Catesbaei described by the author from the Gulf 

 States having now been named 5. Sledgei Macfarl. The third section 

 is concerned with Sarracenia Drummondii Croom, which is shown 

 to have been collected and described before Croom by W. Bartram 

 (1794 under the name 5. laainosä) and Rafinesque (1807, as5. /^z/co- 

 phylla)] S. lacimosa Bartram should take priori t3^ In the last section 

 5. minor Walt. (5. variolaris Michx.) is stated to be the "Limonio 

 congeneri Clusii affinis" of the Sloane Herbarium (Vol. 314, 34); 

 5. lutea though probably a 'nomen nudum' (= 5. minor) has been 

 published to some extent through the medium of Fräsers garden 

 catalogues. F. E. Fritsch. 



Maiden, J, H. and E. Betehe. A review of the New South 

 Wales species of Halorrhagaceae as described in Prof. A. K. 

 Schindler's Monograph (1905); with the description of a 

 new species. (Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South 

 Wales for the year 1906. Vol. XXXI. Part. 3. N'\ 123. p. 393-398. 

 1906.) 



The authors first enumerate new New South Wales species of 

 Halorrhagaceae described in Prof. Schindler's monograph (viz. 

 Halorrhagis tenuis, villosa, longifolia , veronicifolia , pedicellata, 

 coronopifolia ; Myriophyllum longibracteolatuni). H. coronopifolia is 

 regarded as a doubtful species, possibly an abnormal form of H. 

 odontocarpa F. v. M. The new species described is Halorrhagis 

 verrucosa Maiden and Betche n. sp. In Schindler's System, a brief 

 Synopsis of which is given , it belongs to the subgenus Euhalorrhagis , 

 sect. Monanthus, subsect. Rhagocalyx , being nearly allied to H. tenuis 

 Schindler, but distinguished by being a glabrous annual (1 — 1-/2 ft. 

 high) branched from the base with slender 4-angled and slightly 

 winged stems with opposite leaves. The specific name refers to the 

 character of the fruit. F. E. Fritsch. 



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