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sufificient testimony for its re-establishment to specific rank under the 

 name of Q. heterophylla, Mx. 



American Agriculturist. — We can imagine no better journal than 

 this for the class to which it addresses itself. With a competent botan- 

 ist in charge of it, all readers can rely upon its scientific accuracy and 

 freedom from scientific rubbish. The May number contains an arti- 

 cle which ventilates pretty thoroughly a late transaction of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture. If any man in the country can speak with 

 authority upon grasses, that man is Dr. Thurber. The only wonder 

 is that the so-called seed of "Bermuda Grass" was not submitted to 

 Dr. Vasey, the Botanist of the Department, who could have decided 

 the matter with equal authority. 



Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club ^ March. — The table of con- 

 tents is as follows : Proceedings of the Torrey Club ; Notes on the 

 Flora of Plainfield, N. J.; Notes on a Botanical Trip through N. W. 

 New Jersey ; Additions to U. S. Phalloidei ; Correlation between the 

 Odor of the Phalloids and their Relative Frequency ; The North- 

 Jersey Botanical Club ; Botanical News ; Juncus setaceus. 



Kritisches ■ Verzeichniss alter bis j'etzt bcschrieben luficaceen nebst Diag 

 nosenneuer Arte7i voxvYxdiWz Buchenau. — Prof. Buchenau of Bremen, 

 has published this work of 112 pages after having collected material 

 for some 20 years. First there is given a long catalogue of species 

 and authors, occupying 60 pages. The next 45 pages are taken up 

 with remarks on some of the species and diagnoses of new 

 species. The last few pages are devoted to an attempt at a nat- 

 ural arrangement of hitherto described Juncace(^. The work will be 

 furnished by Prof. Buchenau, postpaid to any address, for one dollar. 



A Catalogue of the Forest Tices of North America, by C. S. Sargent. 

 — This is a catalogue to be published in connection with the Report, 

 on the Forest Wealth of the United States. It is sent out in this pre- 

 liminary form with every other page left blank for notes, for the pur- 

 pose of collecting further information before the final publication. 

 The list contains 342 species, and information is asked upon such 

 points as the following : extreme geographical range of any species, 

 regon and elevation where any species is principally multiplied and 

 reaches its greatest perfection, the geological formation most favora- 

 ble, dimensions of remarkably developed specimens of any species, 

 common or local name, purposes for which the wood of any species 

 is employed, products of any species other than wood. 



Erratum. — In the first line on page 27, March, 1880, for "two 

 inches" read two lines. 



