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Three new species of West American Coniferse are distinguished 

 by Mr, J. G. Lemmou in Garden and Forest, May 12, 1897 (x. 

 183-4). They are as follows: Pinus scopulorum (JR. ponderosa, 

 var, scopulorum Engelm.), Rocky Mountains. Picea Columbiana 

 {P. Engleman7ii in part), Oregon to British Columbia, eastward to 

 Montana. Abies Shastensis (A. mag^iifica, var. Shastensis Lem- 

 mon), Mt. Shasta and Scott Mountains to the Cascade Mountains in 

 southern Oregon. 



The successor of the late Sir Ferdinand Baron von Mueller as 

 Government Botanist of Victoria, is Mr. J. G. Luehman, who was 

 for twenty-eight years his assistant. Mr. Luehman has been defi- 

 nitely placed in charge of the National Herbarium of Melbourne, 

 with the title of Curator. This herbarium is under the ministerial 

 control of the Chief Secretary of Victoria, and it is a fortunate fact 

 that the present Under Secretary of the department is also a bota- 

 nist, and takes a keen interest in the welfare of the herbarium. 



In the proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington (XI, 

 61-65, April 21, 1897) Mr. F. V. Coville sets aside Camassia as a 

 generic name for the Camas Plant and renames the species under 

 Quamasia, Raf, as follows: Camassia LeichtliniiWsLts., becomes 

 Quamaia Leichtlinii; Camassia Cusickii Wats., becomes Quamasia 

 Cusickii; Camassia esculenta Lindl. (originally described by Pursh 

 as Phalangium quamasJi) becomes Quamasia quamash; Camassia 

 Howellii Wats., becomes Quamasia Howellii; Camassia Fraseri, Torr 

 (originally described as Scilla esculenta Ker) becomes Quamasia escu- 

 lenta. Camassia Quamash Greene is cited as a synonym of Quamasia 

 quamash (Pursh). It is not the plant of Pursh, although Greene 

 applied Pursh's specific name to it. It is Camassia Leichtlinii (or 

 Qumasia Leichtlinii) and should be placed as a synonym of that 

 species. 



