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he quotes Linnasus, is quite different and, from the figure, is probably 

 P. prostratum. At any rate it belongs to quite a different section of 

 Panicum from true P. repens, L. However, many seem to have 

 thought that this was the true P. repens, and therefore founded a new 

 species under the name of P. arenarium. True P. repens can always 

 be distinguished by the numerous nerves on the upper glumes and 

 on the lower palea of the male llowers. 



The specimen sent by Dr. Gray has quite glabrous vaginae, whereas 

 those received from Dr. Vasey have almost hirsute vaginas. 



Recent Publications. — American Naturalist, March. — Besides Sir 

 Joseph Hooker's lecture, referred to above, Mr. Fred. Brendel writes 

 a spicy article "On Nomenclature," much of which is true and some 

 of which is impracticable, however desirable it might be. Mr. Geo. 

 E. Davenport, in advance of the pu])lication of his Catalogue of N. 

 Am. Ferns, gives his reasons for retaining Tuckerman's name Aspid- 

 ium Boottii in place of A. remotum of Braun. 



Journal of Botanij, British and Foreign. — Sketch of the life of 

 Elias Fries with portrait. He was born in the south of Sweden, Aug. 

 15, 1794, and died Feb. 8, 187.8. Report on a collection of Ferns from 

 Borneo, with description of new species by J. G. Baker. Notes on 

 some points in Botanical nomenclature by Mr. Bentham. On the 

 Vegetable remains in the Egyptian museum at Berlin, by Alexander 

 Braun, edited from the author's manuscripts. 



Catalogue of Plants collected by Dr. Goues in Dakota and Montana 

 by Prof. J. W. Chickering. — This catalogue contains 092 species, of 

 which about 390 are found in New York or New England, about 80 

 are distinctively Western in their habitat, and about 215 belong on 

 the plains and the Rocky Mountain region. 



Ferns of North America, by Prof. D. C. Eaton. Parts 12 and 13. — 

 In looking over the plates of this number it seems to us that they 

 are the finest that have yet been given to us. There is a freshness 

 and distinctness about them that leaves little to be desired. The 

 species figured and described are Aspidium acrostichoides, Swz., Pteris 

 aquilina, L., Aspleniuni Tr' ^ ojiiancs, L., A. viride, Hudson, ^1. parru- 

 lum, M. & G., Adiantum Gapillus- Veneris, L., A. cniarginatuv}, Hook,, 

 Vittaria lineata, Swz., Notholania sinuata, Kaulf., X. ferruginea, Desv., 

 and N. Newherryl, Eaton. 



Bulletin of Torrey Botanical Club, December. — Dr. Gray has two 

 notes, one upon the confusion of the names Diclijtra, Diehjtra and Di- 

 centra, the other upon a sjjorting Trillium grandiflornin. 



