118 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1905. 



MAXON, William R. A new Botrychium 

 from Jamaica. 



Bull. Torrey Botan. Club, xxxii, Apr., 



1905, pp. 219-222, pi. 6. 



A description of Botrychium underwood- 



ianum Maxon, a new species, from Jamaica, 



allied to the Jamaican B. jenmian and the 



Mexican B. decompositum. 



Adenoderris, a valid genus of ferns. 



Botan. Gaz., xxxix, May, 1905, pp. 366-369, 

 2 text figs. 

 This genus proposed by John Smith in 1875 

 is regarded as quite distinct from Polystichum 

 and the diagnostic characters of both genera 

 are discussed. Tlie genus comprises two spe- 

 cies, which are here described and figured, vie: 

 A. viscidula (Mett.) Maxon, and A. sororia 

 Maxon, new species. 



ROSE, Joseph N. LenophyUum, a new 

 genus of Crassulaceje. 



Smithsonian Misc. Colls., xlvii, Quar. 

 issue, II, pt. 2, No. 1479, Oct. 10, 1904, pp. 

 159-162, pi. 20, figs. 18, 19. 



Studies of Mexican and Central 



American plants, No. 4. 



Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herbarium, viii. No. 4, 

 Apr., 1905, pp. 281-399, pis. 63-72, figs. 14 

 to 19. 

 Descriptions of many new species are given. 



■ and BRITTON, N. L. CrassulacesB 



[of North America]. 



North Am. Flora, xxviii, pt. 1 , May, 190.5, 

 pp. 7-74. 

 Contains descriptions of 4 new genera and 

 many new species. 



SAFFORD, William Edwin. Smithsonian 

 Institution. | United States National 

 Museum, j Contributions | from the ] 

 United States National Herbarium. | 



Volume IX I I The Useful Plants 



of the Island of Guam | with an introduc- 

 tory account of the | physical features 

 and natural history of the island, of the | 

 character and history of its people, and | 



of their agriculture. | | By William 



Edwin Safford. | [Seal] | Washington: | 

 Government Printing Office. | 1905. | 

 8vo., pp. 1-416, pis. i-Lxx. 



SMITH, John Donnell. A description of 

 Dracserm americana Doim. Sm., n. sp. 



Trees and Shrubs, by C. L. Sargent, i., 

 1905, p. 207, pi. xcviii. 



ZOOLOGY. 



MOLLTJSKS. 



BARTSCH, Paul. A new Ashmunella from 

 New Mexico. 



Smithsonian Misc. Colls., xlvii, Quar. 



issue, n, pt. 1, No. 1469, Aug. 6, 1904, pp. 



13, 14. 



Ashmunella townsendi is described from the 



neighborhood of Ruidoso, Sierra Blanca, 



Mescalero Indian Reservation, Lincoln 



County, New Mexico. 



Notes on the genus SonoreUa, with 



descriptions of new species. 



Smithsonian Misc. Colls., xlvii, Quar. 

 issue, II, pt. 2, No. 1481, Oct. 10, 1904, pp. 

 187-200, pis. xxviii-xxxni. 

 In this paper the genus has been divided 

 into four groups based upon nuclear char- 

 acters, which are illustrated by enlarged 

 photographic reproductions Nine new forms 

 are described: S. ashmuni, nelsoni, goldmani, 

 merrilli, dalli, mearnsi, ftsheri, baileyi, and 

 baileyi orcutti. All species described up to 

 date, except S. rowelli and S. lohri lioderma, 

 are figured. 



A new species of Amp/iidromus. 



Smithsonian Misc. Colls., xlvii, Quar 

 issue, II, pt. 2, No. 1486, Nov. 9, 1904, pp. 

 292-293, pi. XLVI. 

 Amphidromus gossi is described from Mount 

 Kina Baloo, North Borneo. 



A new Philippine land shell. 



Smithsonian Misc. Colls., xlvii, Quar. 

 issue, II, pt. 4, No. 1561, Mar. 28, 1905, 

 p. 409, pi. LVI. 

 Helicostyla mearnsi, is described from 

 Mount Apo, Mindanao. 



DALL, William Heale\. On the relations 

 of the land and freshwater mollusk-fauna 

 of Alaska and Eastern Siberia. 



Popular Science Monthly, Feb., 1903, pp. 

 362-366. 

 Discusses the relations of the fauna, the 

 subdivisions of the fauna in Alaska and the 

 relative contributions to the Alaskan assem- 

 bly of the different adjacent faunal regions. 



An historical and systematic review 



of the frogshells and tritons. 



Smithsonian Misc. Colls., xlvii, Quar. 



issue, II, pt. 1, No. 1475, Aug. 6, 1904, 



pp. 114-144. 



A review of the literature in regard to the 



Lamarckian genera Ranella and Triton and 



their subdivisions from the beginning. The 



