62 EKYTHEA. 



On the authority of M. Henry L. de Vilmorin it is stated 

 that a seed-producing hybrid between Papaver hracieatum 

 and one of the double-flowered varieties of P. somniferum^ 

 the Opium-poppy, has been raised at Verrieres, France. 

 " The seedlings were annuals, and bore single carmine-colored 

 flowers. At first the plants were nearly all sterile, but subse- 

 quently seed was freely produced." 



In " Ecologse Botanicse " No. 2 from the Proceedings of 

 the Philadelphia Academy (1895, 546-54), Prof. E. L. 

 Greene presents a " Bevision of the Genus Tropidocarpum " 

 and the following new species from California: Ti-ifolium 

 truncatum ( Trifolium Franciscanum var. truncatum Greene) 

 middle California inland; T. lilacimim, South San Francisco; 

 T. roslrcdum, Lake Merritt, Oakland; ValerianeUa magna, 

 Knight's Valley, Sonoma Co; V. ciliosa, Napa Valley; 

 Lessingia pectinata^ Monterey; Vagnera pallescens, middle 

 elevations of the California Sierra. The following are from 

 other western states: Boisduvalia diffusa^ Humboldt River, 

 Nevada; Pyrrocoma eriopoda, Soda Spring, Esmeralda Co., 

 Nevada; P. solidaginea, Palisade, Nevada; P. subviscosa, 

 Humboldt Wells, eastern Nevada; Aster militaris, Grants 

 Pass, Oregon; A. amplissimus, toward limit of trees, Mt. 

 Bainer; A. frondeus {A, foliaceus, var. frondeus Gray, in 

 part). 



A REVISION of Lester F. Ward's " Flora of Washington 

 and Vicinity " published in 1881 is in course of preparation. 

 Professor Ward will contribute the chapters dealing with the 

 geology of the District, the fossil flora of the Potomac forma- 

 tion and the problems of geographical distribution. Various 

 orders will be prepared by specialists and the manuscript 

 of the volume will be edited by Charles Louis Pollard 

 of the Division of Botany. 



" I DID not mix after 1893 in the United States botanists' 

 quarrels over nomenclature, considering them as home 

 quarrels." — Dr. Otto Kuntze, San Eemo, Italy, in Boianical 

 OazeUe for February. It may be noted also that the Editor 

 of the London Journal of Botany has had nothing to say for 

 everal months about "Neo- American" nomenclature. 



