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were not discovered at the time the Flora was published. Dr. Engel- 

 maun has a note on Vitis palmata Vahl in the Bot. Gaz. Dr. Parry has 

 two papers in Proo. Davenport Acad Set.; one on Arctostaphylos in which 

 he gives an account of the species of the genus found on our Pacific 

 coast; the other on New Plants from Southern and Lower California in- 

 cluding species of Phacelia, Ptelea, Polygala, and Gilia; Parry also de- 

 scribes a new Oxytheea luteola from the Mohave desert, and has a note 

 on Cucurbita Calif ornica in Torrey Bulletin. In the same journal E. L. 

 Greene describes New Western Compositor and a number of other new 

 Western species, and in the Bot. Gazette he has an article on Califor- 

 niau species entitled Notulw Californiccc. M. E. Jones has Notes from 

 Nevada and Utah in Torr. Bull., Notes from California in Bot. Gaz., and 

 New Plants from California and Nevada in Am. Nat. Jos. F. James 

 gives a revision of the genus Clemattis of the United States in Journ. Soc. 

 Nat. Hist. Cincinnati. The Torrey Bulletin has a paper on Potamogetons 

 in Western New York, by E. J. Hill; a description of a new Eleocharis 

 diandra, by C. Wright; Notes on the Adirondack^, by Professor Pren- 

 tiss ; an account of some leafy berries of Mitchella repens, by Professor 

 Dudley, and an account of some Hybrid Oaks near Washington, by Dr. 

 Vasey. 



A number of papers on the grasses of the United States have ap- 

 peared, of which we may specify the following : The Grasses of the United 

 States, by Dr. Vasey, special report No. 63 of the Agricultural Depart- 

 ment, in which the genera are described and a list of the species is 

 given ; new species of grasses, and descriptions of two new species from 

 Oregon and Arizona, by Vasey, in Torrey Bull.; Notes on Spartina; 

 List of Grasses from Washington Territory, and List of Grasses collected, 

 by C. G. Pringle in Arizona, by F. L. Scribner, in Torrey Bull. Frank 

 Tweedy has notes on the Coniferce of Washington Territory in Torr. 

 Bull., and Eobert Kidgway gives additions and corrections to the list of 

 Native Trees of the Lower Wabash in Bot. Gaz. The Gazette also has 

 Notes on Edible Plants, by Dr. E. L. Sturtevant; Notes on the Virginia 

 Creeper, by Meehan; Notes from Franconia, by W. W. Bailey, and on 

 Eriodictyon glutinosum as illustrating evolution by Eothrock. The Am. 

 Nat. has Prof. J. M. Coulter's Development of a Dandelion Flower, a 

 paper originally read at the meeting, of the Am. Ass., and an abstract, 

 by Professor Bessey, of Lojacono's Revision of the North American Tri- 

 folii in Nuovo Giorn. Bot. The Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. has a paper by 

 Lester F. Ward on Marsh and Aquatic Plants of the Northern United 

 States, and Notes on the Natural History of Labrador, including the 

 plants, by W. A. Stearns. Several catalogues have appeared during the 

 year, of which we may mention Macoun's Catalogue of Canadian Plants, 

 including Polypetalw, Catalogue of Native and Naturalized Plants of the 

 City of Buffalo and Vicinity by David F. Day, including cryptogams, 

 as well as phsenogams ; Flora of Worcester County, Massachusetts, by 

 Joseph Jackson ; Flora of Floyd County, Iowa, by J. G. Arthur, and 

 Flora of Oak Lsland, Massachusetts, by H. A. Young. 



