86 ERYTHEA. 



by Mr. Scribner iu a prefatory note in Bulletin No. 8, and wliich 

 appears as an addition to the one already quoted, is scarcely avail- 

 able for citation, as each of the bulletins bearing it is paged inde- 

 pendently, so that the particular Bulletin one might wish to refer to 

 could not be properly indicated without using the longer title. 



The figures are poor, which is an especially serious error in the case 

 of grasses. Ixophorus Pringlei is described as having leaves "sca- 

 brous on the margins" and racemes "pubescent at the base, scabrous 

 along the angles," but there is not a sign on the plate that the plant 

 is other than glabrous throughout. We notice also that there is no 

 reference from the plates to the text, and in some cases none from 

 the text to the figures. There is a plate bearing the name Paspalum 

 scabriusculum, but we fail to find the description of a species under 

 that name, nor does the name appear in the index. It is an open 

 question whether two species of Paspalum were intended to be pub- 

 lished iu this Bulletin, or whether Paspalum scabriusculum is a 

 synonym of the P. scabrum described on p. 36; the description of 

 the pubescence of P. scabrum does not agree with the figure of P. 

 scabriusculum. — J. Burtt Davy. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. 



Mr. J. Burtt Davy has been collecting the alkali plants of the 

 Honey Lake region in northeastern California, under most favor- 

 able circumstances. He returned to Berkeley July 1. 



We are in receipt of Fascicle 2 of the Synoptical Flora of North 

 America, by Asa Gray, LL. D.. continued and edited by Benjamin 

 Lincoln Robinson, Ph. D., with the collaboration of Dr. Trelease, 

 Dr. Coulter, and Professor Bailey. This fascicle contains the 

 Polypetalce from the Caryophyllacese to the PolygaleoB. A fuller 

 notice will be given our readers in an ensuing number. [Issued 

 June 10, 1897. Cambridge Botanical Supply Co., Cambridge, 

 Mass. $2.60.] 



Dr. Edward Palmer, of Washington, D. C, has gone again to 

 Mexico to collect for the U. S. Department of Agriculture. He is 

 now on the west coast. 



