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and only recognized on receiving other specimens with the lower 

 leaves, which are very distinct. Cardamlne Clematitis, Shuttleworth, 

 was collected by Dr. Gray and party on Koan Mt., during the south- 

 ern trip of last summer. It was collected before by Rugel in 1844. 

 Dr. Gray had confounded a specimen of it with C. rotvndifoUa^ this 

 being the only authority for attributing sometimes to that species 

 trisected leaves, as is done in the Manual for the Northern States. 

 Two new Astragali are described, both discovered in Oregon by Jos. 

 Howell. ElepJiantopus 7rudatus is added to our flora, being found in 

 Delaware. It is the E. scaber of Torr. and Gray's Flora. The 

 Leptocliniuin section of the genus Liatris -is raised to generic rank. 

 Dr. Garber adds a new Liatris from Florida, which bears his name. 

 A new Rhododendron from North Carolina bears the name of B. 

 Vaseyi. In regard to its relations Dr. Gray says : ''The American 

 Azaleas previously known consist of one aberrant species, B.RJiodora, 

 and of a well-marked group (to which B. Ponticinn also belongs) 

 characterized by a long-tubed funnel-formed corolla and long exserted 

 stamens and style. But the East Asiatic species of the same true 

 Azalea subgenus have campanulate or rotate-campanulate corollas, 

 and some of them very ^QciiiwowQ peridx to the separate flower-buds. 

 This most interesting new species is one of that group, and it thus 

 adds another to the now very numerous cases of remarkable 

 relationship between the Ohino-Japanese and the Alleghanian 

 Horas;'— J. M. C. 



Grevillea for September. — New British Fungi by M. C. Cooke. 

 New Jersey Fungi by M. C. Cooke and J. B. Ellis. A notice of Dr. 

 J. T. Rothrock's linal report on the Botany of the Wheeler survey. 

 On Peniophora (with plates), a new genus of Hymenocetous Fungi, by 

 M. C. Cooke. Experiment on the Calorific Properties of Lichens by 

 W. Lander Lindsay. New British Lichens by Rev. J. M. Crombie. 

 A notice of a series of microscopical mountings of Lichens by Mr. W. 

 Joshua. The Lichen Flora of Great Britain by Rev. W. A. Leighton, 

 a new edition, the 3rd, just issued. New Fungi of the Jura by Dr. 

 L. Quelet.— A. P. M. 



Distinction between Carex intumescens and C. Grayi. — Mr. W. B. 

 Hemsley, in the Journal of Botany, states that he has discovered a 

 very good distinctive character between Carex intumescens^ Rudge, 

 and C. Grayi, Carey, which is not mentioned in the definition of the 

 species in either "Gray's Manual" or "Boott's Illustrations." This 

 differential character is in the achenes ; "those of C. Grayi being 



