96 ERYTHEA. 



seem undescribed but which Miss Eastwood leaves " to the future 

 monographer of the genus the task of assigning definite limits." 

 Students of the Ericacea? will, we are confident, unite in the hope 

 that the recipient of the bequest may be none other than the author 

 of this California Academy paper. 



Some of the' less-known regions of New Mexico were the scene 

 of field - research by Mr. E. O. Wooton in the summer of 1897. 

 The results of herbarium -studies are now being published in the 

 Bulletin of the Torrey Club, Prof. Greene diagnosing the new 

 Composite in the March number, and Mr. Wooton himself describ- 

 ing new plants of other orders in the May, June, and August num- 

 bers (xxv. 257, 304, 451). Mr. Aven Nelson contributes to the 

 pages of the same journal three papers on "New Plants of Wyo- 

 ming". (April, May, July, xxv. 202, 275, 373). The title of Mr. 

 Heller, " New Plants of Western North America," in the April and 

 May numbers, is faulty in that the plants discussed are only in part 

 new species. The literature relating to West America is also aug- 

 mented in the January number by Dr. Small, under the title of 

 ''Studies in North American Polygonacea. — I," whose activity 

 finds expression in the publication of twenty-two new species of 

 Erigonum; further, Acanthoscyphus is a new genus founded on 

 Oxytheca Parishii. The new species described by the same author, 

 in the June number under the title, "Notes and Descriptions of 

 North American Plants. — I," are all West American. 



* A study of one of the type specimens of Saxifraga fallax Greene 

 by Dr. John K. Small reveals seven teratological forms in the 

 flowers, which he figures in the July Bulletin of the Torrey Club 

 (vol. xxv. 391, pi. 343). Dr. Small does not say whether he has 

 had the opportunity of studying the remaining specimens, which 

 constitute the type, but collectors would do well to examine plants 

 growing in the original locality, that is, Summit Station, Sierra 

 Nevada, California, where the species was collected July 26 by 

 Prof. Greene on his journey eastward from California in the year 

 1895. 



Prof. W. A. Setchell, under a U. S. Government commission, 

 devoted the latter part of August to an investigation of the flora 

 of the hot springs of the Yellowstone National Park. He returns 

 to California in September. 



