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(Butters) Maxon is corrected. Woodwardia Chamissoi Brack and W. spinulosa Mart & Gal. 

 are compared and the six main points of distinction are listed. Notholaena limitanea Maxon, 

 sp. nov. and N. limitanea mexicana Maxon, subsp. nov. are described and localities listed. 

 Distinctive characters of N. dealbata (Pursh) Kunze and N. nivea are also given. — /''. C. 

 Anderson. 



330. Maxox, William R. Notes on American ferns. XV. Amer. Fern Jour. 10: 1-4. 

 1920. — Of the five species discussed, the range for four of them is extended. One species, 

 Lycopodium alpinum L., is new for the United States. On examining specimens from Glacier 

 National Park it seems necessary to regard Polystichum Jenningsi Hopkins as a synonym of 

 P. Andersoni Hopkins. — F. C. Anderson. 



331. Praeger, R. Ll. Asplenium adiantum-nigrum var. acutum. Irish Nat. 28: 13-19. 

 PI. 2. 1919. — A review of the literature shows that several forms have been confused. Two 

 main types are here recognized and these are related to certain areas in Ireland and elsewhere. 

 — W. E. Praeger. 



332. Ridley, H. N. The fern-allies and Characeae of the Malay Peninsula. Jour. Roy. 

 Asiatic Soc. Straits Branch 80: 139-164. 1919. — A descriptive consideration of the groups 

 indicated, Lycopodium with 13 species, Psilolum with 2, Selaginella with 37; Azolla with 1; 

 Marsilea with 1; Nitella with 3, and Chara with 1. The following species of Selaginella are 

 described as new: S. Curtisii, S. selangorensis Bedd., S. calcarea, S. strigosa Bedd., S. pensile, 

 S. microdendron, S. lankawiensis, S. cuprea, S. illuslris, S. reptans, S. scabrida, and S. montana. 

 —E. D. Merrill. 



SPERMATOPHYTES 



333. Baker, E. G. The African species of Allophylus. Jour. Botany 57: 154-160. 1919. 

 — The genus Allophylus was founded by Linnaeus in 1747 in the Flora Zeylanica. Linnaeus 

 also described Schmidelia in the Mantissa. These are now considered synonyms. In 1859-60 

 Sander gave under Schmidelia five species, and in 1868 the author's father described twelve 

 species. In 1895 Radlkofer, in Engler and Prantl's Nat. Pflanzenf., mentions eighteen 

 species in Africa and Madagascar. The present author criticises Radlkofer's primary 

 division into unifoliate and trifoliate leaves, and his subsequent divisions on the basis of 

 simple or branched thyrse. Gilg also has made important contributions to our knowledge of 

 the genus. The author gives in this installment a key to the African species, following closely 

 Radlkofer's sequence, with the recently described novelties interpolated. Notes on 

 synonymy and distribution are given on 14 of the 73 species treated in the key. The follow- 

 ing species are described as new: Allophylus nigricans from Nigeria, and A. lasiopus from 

 Cameroons. — K. M. Wiegand. 



334. Beccari, O. The palms of the Philippine Islands. Philippine Jour. Sci. 14: 295- 

 362. 3 pi. 1919. 



335. Beck v. Mannagetta, and G. Lerchenau. Wacholderbeeren mit entbloszten 

 Samen. [Juniper berries with exposed seeds.] Sitzungsber. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien (Math.- 

 Nat. Kl.) 126: 403-419. 31 fig. 1917— See Bot. Absts. 4, Entry 9S3. 



336. Bennett, Arthur. X Potamogeton dualus Hagstrom (P. panormitanus Biv. X 

 pusillus L.). Jour. Botany 57: 2S5. 1919. — A note on the occurrence of the hybrid in York 

 and Shropshire; also the record of P. panormitanus from Ireland, as P. pusillus L. var. tenuis- 

 simus Koch. — K. M. Wiegand. 



337. Benoist, R. Description d'especes nouvelles de Phanerogames de la Guyane Fran- 

 caise. [Descriptions of new species of Phanerogams from French Guiana.] Bull. Mus. Hist. 

 Nat. [Paris] 25: 296-299. 1919. — The following new species are described: Capparis maron- 

 iensis, Andira Wachenheimi, Swartzia si?nilis, and Hclicostylis pcdunculata. — E. B. PaysoJi. 



