494 RECORD OF SCIENCE FOR 1887 AND 1888. 



"New or rare plants," by Dr. Gray (Bot. Gaz., xiii), is the best con- 

 tribution of the Nestor of American botany. It enumerates only four 

 species. The Botanical Gazette, xii, has an account of "An excnrsion 

 to the Platte," by Thompson ; " Proteogyne in Datura meteloides," by 

 Schneck; " Fertilization of Calopogon parviflorus," by Robertson. Vol. 

 XIII contains " Notes on North American willows," by Bebb ; " Notes 

 on the Flora of James Bay," by Macoun ; "A New Water Lily" [Castalia 

 Leihergi) from the Northwest; "Phacelia heterosperma, u. sp.," by 

 Parish ; " Notes on Carex, No. ix," by Bailey ; " Notes on some Illinois 

 Grapes," by Schneck (six species are enumerated); "Prunus pumila in 

 North Carolina," by Memminger ; " Notes on Western Umbellifera'," by 

 Coulter and Eose; "Erigeron Tweedyi, n. sp.," from Southwestern Mon- 

 tana, by Canb}^ ; " Undescribed Plants from Guatemala," by Smith. 



The Torry Bulletin, vol. xiv, contains many articles. Among them 

 are " Bibliographical notes on well-known plants," by Green ; " A 

 supposed new genus of Anacardiacete {iSycocarpus),'^' by Britton, "The 

 Genera Echinocystis Migarrhiza and Echinopepou," by Watson; "A 

 new variety of Aralia nudicauU i.," by Apgar ; " Note on Sarracenia 

 variolaris," by Pierce; vol. xv, contains the following: 



" Sherardia arvensis," by Meehan ; " Eemarks on the Group Caro- 

 lineaj of the genus Eosa," by Best, describes Eosa humilis Marshall, and 

 the varieties lucida and villosa ; " Studies in the Typhacefe," by Morong; 

 " Ee-discovery of Nymphcca clegans, Hook., by Stearns, reports this 

 beautiful species from Waco, central Texas, where it has remained 

 unique since it was first collected by Wright in 1849 ; " New or Note- 

 worthy North American Phanerogams," by Britton ; and Bebb has an 

 article on " White Mountain Willows." 



A number of pai)ers on grasses and cyperacea^ have appeared, of which 

 we may mention " Grasses of North America for Farmers and Stu- 

 dents," by W. J. Beal. It contains chapters " on the structure, form, 

 and develojjment of the grasses, power of motion, plant growth, classi- 

 fication, native grazing lands, grasses for cultivation, early attempts to 

 cultivate grasses, testing seeds, grasses for pastures and meadows, 

 j)reparatiou of the soil, care of grass land, etc." It will be followed by 

 a second volume, which will contain descriptions of the North American 

 species. Flint's well-known " Grasses and Forage Plants," has been 

 revised and a new edition published during the year. Vasey has papers 

 on "Eedfleldia, a New Genus of Grasses," "New Western Grasses," and 

 " New or Eare Grasses," in Torr. Bull., and a " Synopsis of the Genus 

 Panicum," in Bot. Gaz., xiii. Scribner has notes on " New or Little- 

 known Grasses," in Torr. Bull., xv, and Beal on " The Eootstocks of 

 Leersia and Muhlenbergia," in Am. Nat., xxii. Websteria, a new genus 

 in Cyperac€(V.j is described by Wright (Torr. Bull., XV), from Valusia 

 County, Florida. The plant is entirely submerged. 



The American Naturalist has short articles, by Bessey, on " The East- 

 ward Extension of Finus ponderosa^ var, scorimlormn,^^ " The West^ru 



