igi BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 



Prenaiitlies (Nabaliis) Roanensis, Chickering.— in view of 



the fact that Bentham and Hooker have merged the genus Nabahis in 

 the older Prenanthes. which revision vvill undoubted!]' stand, I would 

 change the name of Nahalus Roanensis, n. sp., described in Botanical 

 Gazette for December 1880, to that given above. — J. W. Check- 

 ering. 



Recent Periodifals.— Trimcn's journal of Botany for January 

 contains the following original articles: On Chara obtusa,Y)tsw., a 

 species new to Britain, by Henry and James Groves, accompanied by 

 plate 216; The History of the Scorpioid Cyme, by Sydney H. Vines; 

 on Potamogeton lanceolatus oi 'Simx^X^ by C. C. Babington,; Musci Prae 

 teriti, (continued) by Richard Spruce; on the Plants of (North) Aran 

 Island, Co. Donegal, by Henry Chichester Hart. 



Nature in its four numbers for January gives the following papers 

 to the botanical public: A chapter in the History of the Coniferse, 

 II, by J. Starkie Gardner, in which is considered the Ginkgo or Salis- 

 buria: Dr. Maxwell Masters on Dimorphic Leaver; of Conifers. 



Ha7-dwkke' s Science Gossip for January and February contains 

 "Botanical notes from the Swiss Highlands;" "Notes on some of our 

 smaller fungi," illustrated; "Science-Gossip Botanical Exchange Club 

 Rep .rt for 1880;" "Notes on Terminal and Subterminal Buds." 



American Naturalist f r Februa'y contains a pape^- by Lester F. 

 Ward, entitled "Incomplete Adaptation as illustrated bv the History 

 of Sex in Plants." In tiie department devoted to Botany we ncfte 

 "The Fungi which produce Mildew on Cotton Goods." The editir 

 has in preparation a sketch of the Progress of Botany in the United 

 Slates in the year 1880 and is anxious to procure copies of papers and 

 other publications made during the year 



Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for February contains "The 

 Fertilization of Alpine Flowers." by William Trelease ; "Preservation 

 of Pileate Fungi for the Herbarium," by W. R.Gerard; "Lists of 

 Local and State Floras" (Middle States). 



A List of Plants in Maiden and Medford, Mass., etc. — This little 

 catalogue of 20 pages is published by the Middlesex Institute and with 

 alternate blank leaves, is intended to be used as a check list and note 

 book for local collectors. 



An Essay on Timber Planting in Ohio, by Dr. Jno. A. Warder. 

 This deserves a fuller notice than our crowded pages will at present 

 allow, but we will make use of it hereafter. 



Flora of Indiana. —With tnis number we issue a small outline 

 map of Indiana to accompany the Catalogue. Upon it will be found 

 the County names and by its help the distribution as indicated in the 

 Catalogue can be clearly seen It should be preserved and bound up 

 with the Catalogue when completed. 



