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base of the seed, bent at an angle of about 45° from the radicle." 

 The artist has not been very successful in depicting a triangular 

 ovary and akene. 



Bloomeria aurea Kell, has its name changed to B. crocea on 

 account of the Allium croceu77i Torr. Boh. Mex. Bound 218 (1859). 

 But Bloomeria azirea was published in " The Hesperian " with a 

 colored plate, December, 1859, and the month of the Boundary 

 publication ought to be convincingly set forth before a name 

 already well established in floriculture is disturbed. 



Ephedra viridis named from imperfect material, occurs scat- 

 tered through the range of E. Nevadensis, of which it is probably 

 only a form. It is very bad practice, especially on the western 

 side of the continent, to give currency to species no better char- 

 acterized than this and Potentilla ejemica. K. B. 



The Gemis Phyllospadix, by William Russel Dudley. 

 Reprinted from the Wilder Quarter-Century Book. An interest- 

 ing account of the genesis and structure of Phyllospadix. The 

 author is evidently of opinion that the differences between the 

 two forms are so slight as hardly to warrant their continued sepa- 

 ration. The author has had better facilities than any previous 

 student of the genus and the two excellent plates give one for 

 the first time an adequate idea of the structural details of the 

 plant. 



Manual of the Bay Region Botany, A Systematic Arrange- 

 ment of the Higher Plants Growing Spontaneously in the Counties 

 of Marin, Sonoma, Napa, Sola7io, Contra Costa, Alameda, Sayita 

 Clara, San Mateo, and Sa7i Erancisco. By Edward Lee GrEENE- 



The title should have been A Phanerogamic Flora of 



counties in the State of California, omitting Typhacece, Lemnacecs, 

 Naiadaceie, Alismacece , funcacece Cyperacece Graminece, ConifercB 

 and numeroiis species in the other orders; zvith thirty " new 

 species " none of zvhich are netu, and nearly all vaguely character- 

 ized both as to character and station; and zvith every cha?ige of 

 name zvhich the author s present knozvledge admits. The work is 

 a second and much restricted edition of the unfinished "Flora 

 Franciscana," which under its misleading name included the 



