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the most important of which is an account of "The Ctespitose 

 Willows of Artie America and the Rocky Mountains," by Dr. P. A. 

 Rydher^. From the inside of the cover we learn the personnel of 

 the garden staff, which is as follows: Dr. N. L. Britton, Director- 

 iii-chief; Dr. D. T. MacDougal, Director of the Laboratories; 

 Dr. John K. Small, Curator of the Museums; Dr. P. A. Rydberg 

 As-istant Curator; Samuel Henshaw, Head Gardener; George V. 

 Nash, General Assistant; Willard N. Clute, Assistant; Percy 

 Wilson, Assistant. It was exj)ected that the Museum Building 

 would be ready for occupancy " about midsummer." When com- 

 pleted it will receive not only the Botanic Garden's Herbarium of 

 over 30,000 specimens, but also that of Columbia University, which 

 contains about 500,000 specimens. Graduate students in botany 

 of Columbia University will, hereafter, pursue their work at the 

 Laboratories of the New York Botanical Gardens, and only under- 

 graduate courses will be given at the University. The garden is 

 soon to institute a series of memoirs, of which the first volume, "An 

 Annotated Catalogue of the Flora of Montana and the Yellowstone 

 National Park," by A. P. Rydberg, it is announced, will appear 

 this year. 



A SECOND INSTALMENT of Miss Eastwood's "Studies in the 

 Herbarium and the Field'" forms No. 3 of Vol. 1., Proceedings 

 of the California Academy of Sciences (Botany). In it we find 

 three new species of Cnicus from southern Colox-ado and Utah, a 

 paper on ihe Colorado Alpine species of Synthyris, and further 

 observations on the raanzanitas of Mt. Tamalj)ais. Of new species 

 there are several. The plant of Mt. Tamalpais usually referred to 

 C. exigua Rattan is named as distinct, its designation to be Cam- 

 panula augustiflora Eastwood. This separation seems to be well 

 taken, although we doubt if the amount of variation in the original 

 form is well known. Plants in the University of California Her- 

 barium from the type locality of C. exigua, i. e., Mt. Diablo, exhibit 

 corollas quite different as to the lobes from the one figured in Miss 

 Eastwood's paper. Romneya trichocalyx is segregated from R- 

 Coulteri. Sedum Congdoni from Mariposa County, is new ; its 

 nearest relative is S. purailum Benth. Cercocarpus Traskise is 

 a novelty, the locality of which is not distinctly specified, but 



