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Tjit., which is a gcnwhie IhUtin'<i \ Holaandlm Eiiinryi, Gray, an undoubted Sfmnruhrr- 

 ceit; Ko'herlifivi .s7rt//".sa, Zucc, whicli has been referred to the same order, but is 

 more anomalous: and finally Canotia iMliuuintJin , which, if I mistake not, must take its 

 place among the typical liutaceie, notwithstaading some auomalies," 



A new genus of the Loax/icew, from Lower California, is described and is called 

 Sympetaleia from its most striking and anomalous character of a truly gamopetalous 

 corolla! In Eucnide the petals are uuited at the very base idto a ring, but in this new^ 

 genus they form a long tube even to the base of the spreading limb. A new genus Of 

 the JTi/(Jrophi/ni(re(p is described and dedicated to Mr. J. G . Lemmon an ardent and 

 successful explorer of the Sierra Nevada region. Lemiiio/un Califuniird is the name of 

 genus and species, somewhat related to the Phdceliece, but belonging properly to the 

 Nainea'. Erltiioxpa-mnm Oreeiiei is described and forms an additional link between 

 EchinoHpenninii and Eritrichinni. The genera Eehidiocdryd Gray, and Leptoglossis^ 

 Benth., are each described with two species. 



Aiacrican Joiintnl of Science, and Arts, June. — Dr. Gray gives a review of the 

 "Organogeny of the Female Flower of Gitetum (Titeinon,''^ by O. Beccari, being extracted 

 from the Italian Botanical Journal of January, 1877. It is a disputed point whether 

 the (hietdcedi sliould rank with the Gymuosperms or not. There seems to be an obvious 

 and real transition from the (}netncem to Angiospermous Dicotyledons. 



The death of Alexander Brauu, a distinguished German systematic botanist, is 

 announced, and a short account of his life and labors given. He was born at liatisbon, 

 May 10, lyo.'), and died at l}erliu, March 3J, 1877. He seems to have been one of the few 

 systematic l)()tanists left to Germany, all the distinguished botanists of the ))resent day 

 having turned their attention to histology. A. Brauu, Carl Schimjjer, Agassi/,, and 

 Engehnann were all together at the University of Heidelberg fift}' years ago. The last 

 named is the only survivor. Braun's/(v/'^« was raorpliology. His first important con- 

 tribution to science was a memoir on the arrangement of the scales of pine cones, pub- 

 lislicd in IS;?!). "With this publication began the present knowledge of i)hyllotaxis. 

 His work upuii }f n:siJin,[^iluldrid and Ixoclcm may be essentially complete. But his pro- 

 longed studies of 67(.'^/«, which begiui forty years ago, and tlie completion of which 

 would have crowned his career, have probably not been tinished, or brought into such 

 form that results may be fully secured. 



Amsrlcdio N((furaltst, June — Mr. W. J. Iloti'uian, M. D., contributes an interesting 

 paper on "The Distribution of Vegetation in Portions of Nevada and Arizona." He 

 divides the Flora into four classes; I. tlie tlora of the mountains, II. the tlora of the 

 foot-hills, III. the flora of the jilains, IV. the flora of the salt marshes. A short table is 

 given showing the elevation, timber line, latitude of several mountains and the eleva- 

 tion of tho nearest plains. An interesting abstract of Professor Morren's communica- 

 tion to the Royal Academy of Belgium, on "Vegetable Digestion," is given by Byron 

 I). Halsted. Two interesting experiments, made by Professor Sachs upon the porosity 

 of wood, are noted. 



NoTHOiiAiiNA DEALB.\TA — We liave just received from James Wilson, Esq., ot Arkan-. 

 sas City, Cowley Co., Kansas, some good specimens of this rare and highly prized fern. 

 Mr. Wilson says that he has just found it in great quantity and will take pleasure in 

 supplying any of our readers with specimens next autumn, when the fronds are in fruit. 

 At present he finds on many of the tufts three kinds of fronds; the dead ones and the 

 almost perfect ones of last year, with the tender little half-grown fronds of this season. — 

 J. M. C. » 



Notes. — This spring, while collecting Stylopliorum dipliylliun, Nutt., I noticed a 

 flower with only two petals. As the petals are very fugacious, I supposed, at first, that 



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